Educational Technology

Theresa Rowe - Identity Management - EDUCAUSE Connect

The Education Consultant — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:34:11 +0000

But there is no user demand for limited access rights and demands that they prove who they are. Moreover, there needs to be some recognition that user data, including personal information and access information, is in a certain sense the property of the user.

Continue

Removal of constraints - "Entgrenzung des Lernens"

The Education Consultant — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:48:37 +0000

If we really want to talk about "personal learning environments", we should be very explicit about our assumptions on how the overall circumstances are (very likely) developing and what kind of interventions remain possible under these emerging conditions.

Continue

Removal of constraints - "Entgrenzung des Lernens"

The Education Consultant — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:45:15 +0000

Continue

Unattributed - Learner Identity Management Framework - AICTEC

The Education Consultant — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:32:42 +0000

The topic of personal identity - and therefore, learner identity (though not everyone considers the latter to be a subset of the former, which is a problem) continues to increase in importance in educational technology circles. But what will a Learner Identity Management Framework (LIMF) look like?

Continue

The question is both the model and the framework

The Education Consultant — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:08:29 +0000

I do not mean this in a literal sense, but to delude us into believing that people can authentically explore deeper questions within the confines of a system that imposes numerous sets of control and limitations and time, place, thought, and creativity.

Continue

Where educational technologists publish

The Education Consultant — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:49:02 +0000

The author has surveyed educational technologists who gained tenure between 1999 and 2004 to determine where they published. We seem to have two communities at work, those who seek to publish their work on the Interweb and those who seek the established route or peer reviewed publication.

Continue

Bush's FY 2007 Budget: A Wash for ELL Programs?

The Education Consultant — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:03:00 +0000

Although it remains to be seen how Congress will react to his proposed cost cutting measures in education (a decrease of $3.5 billion, or 5.5%, from 2006 funding), many of the major sources used to fund ELL programs may receive the same amount of funding as in 2006.

Continue

Removal of constraints - "Entgrenzung des Lernens"

The Education Consultant — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:19:48 +0000

Continue