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John Daniels takes a critical lens to Moocs and looks at the hype and the reality.

"On 1st March 2012 John Seely Brown gave a keynote presentation at the DML (Digital Media and Learning) 2012 Conference in San Francisco, called Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner in the 21st Century.  You can watch the recording here, and you can read the transcript here. What does it mean to be a entrepreneurial learner? JSB tells us "This does not mean how to become an entrepreneur. This really means, how do you constantly look around you all the time  for new ways, new resources to learn new things? That's the sense of entrepreneur I'm talking about that now in the networked age almost gives us unlimited possibility.""

Doesn't quite get it is my immediate response. Suifa John Mak has to bring in the first mention of George & Stephen in the comments!

Article from John Egenes at Otago Uni on remix culture. "The internet and our digital convergence are rapidly transforming long-held views regarding the traditional relationship between performer and audience ("creator" / "consumer"). This change is giving a new voice to the audience, literally bringing them into the mix. With unprecedented access to the creative process, and with an audience for their creations, consumers of music are also its producers, and are reshaping concepts of creativity, individuality, and intellectual property. This paper examines fundamental shifts in the way the "Folk Process" works within this context. Remix culture, once a bastion of beat-driven dance mashups, is expanding to include all styles of music, film, theatre and art. I will argue that its long-term significance lies in the notion that it blurs lines between the traditionally separate roles of creator and consumer, and challenges long-held concepts of intellectual property and copyright. Over the protests of many traditional folk musicians and devotees, folk music is entering this new digital arena, where the Folk Process is changing from gradual to immediate, from slow to rapid, adapting to fit the new digital paradigm."

"Three-quarters of students prefer a bound book over the digital equivalent"

Sufai John Mac on Moocs and some of the negative comments about them.

Very cutting post by John Naughton on the demise of the Open Internet post Snowden.

Thought you WCELers might be interested in this... Dean ICT Education: Australia vs NZ by Prof John Hosking, Formerly Auckland Uni, now Australia National University Auckland University's Professor John Hosking was a leading figure in New Zealand's Computer Science community. However in 2011 he followed Phar Lap, Russell Crowe and Pavlova across the ditch, in his case taking up the role as Dean of the College of Engineering and CS at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Resource page using the 3E Enhance. Extend, Empower framework to encourage academic use of Moodle. Would be interesting to know the success rate.

John St. Clair's blog at Uni Mary Washington. Lots of good stuff and it also demos how UMW are using Wordpress as a learning environment for more than just blog posts.

Long post and comments on the vle vs the ple by John Fontaine, head of 'Platform Evangelism' at BB. Interesting that he appears to view the vle as a transmitter and instructor driven and I wonder if this then justifies the rest of his thinking on the role of technology.

John St. Clair presentation on lecture capture.

John Beasley-Murray's user page on Wikipedia where he describes creating a writing assignment for his students and the ups and downs of the exercise.

Copyright, stealing, tribute, shoulders of giants. What is the nature of creativity. Lennon writes his take on musical heritage.

Site of John Davitt - maker of digital toolmaker in education. Some good stuff here.

Technology Enhanced Learning - a quality standard.