Yonks ago (that's... like.. you know... quite a long time ago) I suggested to the web-support@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing list that we needed an agreed set of tags for labelling UK universities and colleges in Web 2.0 tagging services. I'd raised the issue because we had just agreed with John Kirriemuir that he would create a Flickr pool in order to collect images of UK HE and FE activity in Second Life, as part of the series of snapshots that we are funding, and we wanted a way that people could c

In a report on the recent eFoundations Symposium Ale Fernandez has given his thoughts on the discussions which took place on the symposium back channel in which there seemed to be agreement that the term ‘disruptive technologies’ was increasingly counter-productive and proposed use of the term ‘innovative technologies’: “it surfaced that I wasn’t the only one who thought a more positive terminology (like “Emerging Technologies”) would be more conducive to positive adoption on campus or even ju

I was fortunate enough to catch Laurence Johnson’s presentation at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008 a couple of weeks ago. Laurence is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 200 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centres, and technology companies dedicated to using new technology to inspire, energize and support learning. The NMC produces, as part of its Emerging Technologies Initiative, an annual Horizon Rep

I was fortunate enough to catch Laurence Johnson’s presentation at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008 on Thursday 8th May. Laurence is Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more than 200 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research centres, and technology companies dedicated to using new technology to inspire, energize and support learning. The NMC produces, as part of its Emerging Technologies Initiative, an annual Horizon Repor

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