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This issue features a round table discussion with Jaan Netzow, IBM Germany, Gareth Greenwood, IBM UK, and Bert de Coutere, IBM Belgium. They are all involved, in one way or the other, with the development, sales and support of software for collaboration - particularly in the workplace. Can IBM applications replace Facebook as a ‘managed social network’? Should managers have the right to change employees’ personal profiles? All this and more at this round table discussion.
Another great edition of Sounds from the bazaar - brought to you in conjunction with Online Educa Berlin. After an introduction by Graham Attwell, you can listen to Jay Cross talking about Informal Learning. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers tells us about his idea for „Research without Borders“ and Claire Belisle talks about her research on information and digital media. The blog spot features Ismael Pena Lopez’s brilliant ICTlogy blog. Enjoy! In this show we feature two contributors to Online Educa. Ruth Rominger is Director of Learning Design at Monterey Institute, USA. She spoke to us about the development of Open Educational resources, social authoring, sustainability models and much more. Steve Wheeler will also be at Online Educa. He is part of a panel looking at the potential of Multi User Virtual Environments, including Second Life, for learning. In the interview, Steve talked about the development of a project on sexual health in Second Life. Online Educa Berlin has teamed up with Sounds from the bazaar to produce a series of podcasts in the run up to this year’s conference. Listen to our first edition, featuring talks with Stephen Downes, Vijay Kumar and Toru Iiyoshi… |
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