Repositories ‘vital to UK economy’, delegates hear

Aparte del texto que os traigo hoy, recordar también la Conferencia Online de JISC:

A major conference on digital repositories took place this week in Manchester, attracting nearly 200 delegates from around the UK.

The conference began on Tuesday with an overview from Rachel Bruce, JISC programme director, who explained that although the conference marked the end of JISC’s Digital Repositories programme, this in now way meant the end of JISC’s work and investment in this area. The conference, she continued, showcasing as it did the many strands of work which sprang from the highly successful two-year programme, was an important signal that the opposite was in fact the case and that the programme had given significant impetus to repository development in the UK, including new strands of JISC-funded activity.

The vision for repositories

Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation gave the first keynote presentation on the ‘Repositories Roadmap’, a vision and forward plan for the establishment and development of repositories in the UK covering the period 2006 to 2010. He said that the report originally suggested that the main challenges were in the areas of policy. However, he continued, “getting the technology right can have a huge impact on policy, culture and working practices.” Therefore, he suggested to delegates, this may be the area that could best repay close attention. ‘The conference is an important signal that the JISC Digital Repositories programme has given significant impetus to repository development in the UK’

The vision for 2010 refers to the wish that a “high percentage of newly published scholarly outputs [be] made on available on terms of open access” and speaks of “a growing recognition of the benefits of making academic content more available”. The question now, as far as these goals are concerned, said Andy Powell, is increasingly “not if, but when…” The situation now might therefore require us to set a more ambitious target than that of a “high percentage”, he said.(leer más…)

Fuente: [JISC]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, eLearning, UK, repositories, repositorios

Second Life , Universidades y campus virtuales in UK: It’s a world of possibilities. Jessica Shepherd

«La innovación no tiene nada que ver con cuantos dólares has invertido en I+D. Cuando Apple apareció con el Mac, IBM gastaba al menos 100 veces más en I+D. No es un tema de cantidades, sino de la gente que posees, cómo les guías y cuánto obtienes.«
Steve Jobs

[foto vía video visi visum:virtual]
Hace unos 8 o 9 años ,a raiz de un mundo virtual que había descubierto recientemente que conceptualmente me gustó mucho creado por un español, (creo que era en flash y del que desgraciadamente no encuentro la referencia pero lo buscaré), le comentaba a un compañero que ese era el camino del e-learning y que, entonces yo montaba en pruebas en un pc WebCt 1.0… nada que ver una cosa con la otra. Pero a la vez, también me preguntaba : para este viaje hacen falta estas alforjas. Reproducir en un mundo virtual las mismas torpezas, errores, concepciones caducas, viejas casacas sirve de algo?. La innovación está más allá de la tecnología de turno…y más acá también.

En fin, hoy traemos tres enlaces: uno a The Guardian, que da título al post, It’s a world of possibilities. Jessica Shepherd y el otro al blog Second Life Insider, sobre el artículo citado con el post titulado: «SL Educating hits the UK national media» de Eloise Pasteur. Y por último, de Video Visi Visum: virtual:Second Life as a medium for mock trials.

I’m tardy in reporting two MUVE-related developments. First is that Prof. Nesson’s (Eon Berkman) has continued to experiment in Second Life by hosting mock trials, or cyber trials. Nesson observed that one of the major features/limitations of Second Life — use of text chat rather than speech — presents certain advantages when exploited creatively.

Ahí va el del The Guardian:

Virtual campuses are springing up in Second Life, as universities discover the advantages of cyberspace. reports

Tuesday May 8, 2007
The Guardian

In university lectures and tutorials, she is a slim blonde in her 20s by the name of Rosannalacey. At home, she is a little less slim, a little less blonde, aged 35 and called Rosanna Branch.

That’s cyberspace for you. And it is here that more than two-thirds of Branch’s classes for the masters course she is doing have taken place. Up to three times a week, her 3D animated alter ego has met those of her tutor and fellow students on Edinburgh University’s cyber campus. They discuss ideas by typing in their characters’ words, and fly across the cyberworld together to meet others with the same academic interests.

It is known as Second Life, an internet-based virtual world at least 6 million people have signed up to, where you can choose your appearance, age, gender and colour. And its use as a learning, teaching and research tool is to be debated at a conference in London on Friday run by the educational charity Eduserv.(leer más…)

Fuente: [the guardian]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, eLearning, Second Life, Universidad, campus virtuales