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Andrew Stewart

Times Higher Education - Leader: Academic or jack of all trades? - 1 views

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    Interesting take on knowledge transfer and the increasing role of the modern academic
Andrew Stewart

Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines | Laurel Papworth- Social Network ... - 0 views

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    List 40 resources of use in managing staff interested in social media
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    List of guidelines appropriate to the use of social media
Andrew Stewart

Enterprise 2.0 » Home - 0 views

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    Excellent book covering the take up of social software in enterprise/business
paul lowe

Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. About Yochai Benkler Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization…
paul lowe

The Wealth of Networks » Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and... - 0 views

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    Yochai Benkler's wealth of nations book online Next Chapter: Part I: The Networked Information Economy » read paragraph Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge 1 Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development. How they are produced and exchanged in our society critically affects the way we see the state of the world as it is and might be; who decides these questions; and how we, as societies and polities, come to understand what can and ought to be done. For more than 150 years, modern complex democracies have depended in large measure on an industrial information economy for these basic functions. In the past decade and a half, we have begun to see a radical change in the organization of information production. Enabled by technological change, we are beginning to see a series of economic, social, and cultural adaptations that make possible a radical transformation of how we make the information environment we occupy as autonomous individuals, citizens, and members of cultural and social groups. It seems passé today to speak of "the Internet revolution." In some academic circles, it is positively naïve. But it should not be. The change brought about by the networked information environment is deep. It is structural. It goes to the very foundations of how liberal markets and liberal democracies have coevolved for almost two centuries.
paul lowe

Twitter Toolbox: 70+ Awesome Twitter Apps, Mash-Ups, Plugins And Services « W... - 0 views

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    Daily Awesome Tips, Tricks, Cheats And Review!! Twitter Toolbox: 70+ Awesome Twitter Apps, Mash-Ups, Plugins And Services with 2 comments Twitter is hot and making an impact on social networking on the web. With the recent Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN as well as Tweetie just released for the Mac, Twitter is becoming more and more significant in the social networking and social media world. It is no wonder Twitter is a great platform for many awesome extensions to develop. In this post, we will show you to 70+ Twitter apps, add-ons, services, mashups and plugins to enhance your Twitter experience. Please help us spread this post on Twitter if you liked this article!! All of the Twitter apps listed below are free unless otherwise stated:
Andrew Stewart

Xerte - Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools - 0 views

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    The Xerte Project provides a full suite of tools for elearning developers and content authors. Xerte is a fully-featured elearning development environment for creating rich interactivity.
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    Of possible interest to some participants?
Andrew Stewart

Wade Armstrong: Knowledge Supply Chain Management - 0 views

  • My father argues that inventory is held in the universities, which create and collect knowledge, but I’d say that knowledge inventory is much more held in the hands of university graduates, who store knowledge in case their employers ever need it.
  • Right now, we ask people to get the most knowledge, when they have the least ability to predict what they’ll do for a living. As a consequence, businesses need to send people out for training in basic things, like public speaking and conflict resolution.
Andrew Stewart

Changing Higher Education: Who are our customers for education? I. The employer as cust... - 0 views

  • Perhaps, instead of viewing students and their parents as our customers for education, we should view the future employers of our students as our real customers
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      All sorts of tie ins i.e. curriculum design through employer engagement
  • both future employers, and society generally
  • described higher education as being in the knowledge chain management business(What business are we in?, March 1, 2006)
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  • moving new knowledge quickly to potential end users
  • graduates become a key part of the knowledge supply chain which moves knowledge from the creators and explicators to the users
  • provide the student with skills and knowledge that will enable the future employer to better succeed in a knowledge economy
  • they also challenge us because they find our graduates can’t write or speak well enough, do not think critically or creatively enough, and don’t know enough about the world outside their field
  • educational experience emphasizes  development of fundamental basic skills that will have lifetime utility such as critical thinking, creativity, entrepreneurship, communication, cultural understanding, etc
  • life-long sequence of “just-in-time” educational experiences
  • Rather they are “independent partners” who have invested in an education that will enable them to become valued contributors to their institution’s knowledge chain
  • Thus one might envisage that competition in quality and scope of  continuing education might soon become a significant element of higher education.
Andrew Stewart

Changing Higher Education: Who are our customers for education? II. Society as customer. - 0 views

  • Thus, the challenge is not to determine whether or not society is one of the customers of higher education- it is - but to define in this rapidly changing and globalizing world what "society" is, and what it expects (and will expect) of higher education
  •  The same survey concluded that 2/3 of Americans believe students and their families - not the government- should pay the largest share of the cost of higher education, thus reconfirming the view that the respondents consider higher education to be a private rather than societal benefit.
  • It is important, therefore, that we consider society to be a customer whose interests, concerns, and expectations must be understood if we are to continue and improve this powerful synergistic relationship.  Changing conditions will causing changing expectations, however, and higher education must constantly seek to understand the nature of those changing expectations in order to continue to play a major role in shaping the changes. 
paul lowe

Anthropology Program at Kansas State University - Wesch - 0 views

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    Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.
paul lowe

YouTube - The Anonymity Project - Spring 2009 Digital Ethnography Preview - 0 views

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    For the Spring 2009 Digital Ethnography course led by Michael Wesch. This is a compilation of trailers created by students for their Spring 2009 projects. For more information about our project, visit our research hub: http://www.netvibes.com/wesch There you will find links to student blogs, our wiki, our diigo links, notes, and other materials.
paul lowe

NMC Discussion - Digital Ethnography - 0 views

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    mike wesc purpose driven research project on anonymity kansas uni ethnography/social anthropology on web 2.0 trends
paul lowe

Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University - 0 views

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    Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University netvibes site for mike wesch's course using rss feeds etc
paul lowe

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views

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    From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments Posted January 7th, 2009 by Michael Wesch , Kansas State University Tags: * Essays * Teaching and Technology * anthropology * Assessment * information revolution * multimedia * participatory learning * Web 2.0 2 Comments | 9313 Page Views Knowledge-able Most university classrooms have gone through a massive transformation in the past ten years. I'm not talking about the numerous initiatives for multiple plasma screens, moveable chairs, round tables, or digital whiteboards. The change is visually more subtle, yet potentially much more transformative. As I recently wrote in a Britannica Online Forum: There is something in the air, and it is nothing less than the digital artifacts of over one billion people and computers networked together collectively producing over 2,000 gigabytes of new information per second. While most of our classrooms were built under the assumption that information is scarce and hard to find, nearly the entire body of human knowledge now flows through and around these rooms in one form or another, ready to be accessed by laptops, cellphones, and iPods. Classrooms built to re-enforce the top-down authoritative knowledge of the teacher are now enveloped by a cloud of ubiquitous digital information where knowledge is made, not found, and authority is continuously negotiated through discussion and participation.1 This new media environment can be enormously disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.
Andrew Stewart

Webware 100 2009 - CNET - 0 views

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    Some excellent tools listed under these categories. Well worth a quick peek!
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    Top 100 Web 2.0 apps in various categories as voted for by cnet readers.
Andrew Stewart

Tweetmeme - Hottest Stories on Twitter - 0 views

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    Can be useful, distracting or annoying - use with caution.
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    Most popular tweets!
Andrew Stewart

Never Mind technology: Collaboration is Changing - 0 views

  • one that helps the company achieve its goals and improve its bottom line.
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      The holy grail!
  • more cultural than technological
  • They are sharing their thoughts and experience for free
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  • but management change, too, including changes to incentive and compensation programs, career tracks, and what it takes to get noticed in the 21st-century enterprise
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      Again, something that we should all bear in mind!
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