Enda mere via Stephen Downes: Newly Published E-Learning Guides. From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing, an always useful guide: "The UK's Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), is a network of 24 subject centres based in higher education (HE) institutions throughout the UK which aims to promote high quality learning and teaching through the development and transfer of good practices in all subject disciplines, and to provide a 'one-stop shop' of learning and teaching resources and information for the HE community. LTSN has just published 5 guides to e-learning, all of which are available for free download as PDF files.

• Guide for Senior Managers - [0.25 MB PDF];
• Guide for Heads of Departments - [0.25 MB PDF];
• Guide for Teachers - [0.25 MB PDF];
• Guide for Learning Technologists - [0.25 MB PDF];
• Guide for Support Staff - [0.25 MB PDF];"

I had a look through the guides and they are brief, well written, and fairly comprehensive. They will be especially useful to those new in the field, and are a nice organization of the material for those with more background. By Seb Schmoller, November 23, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Stephen Downes: Blogs, Learning Objects and Other Cool Stuff!. Long delayed (because I kept intending to add more content, but never did), an MS Word document and associated PowerPoint Slides from my preconference workshop at NAWeb 03. Sorry if it ends a little abruptly... By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, October 19, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Stephen Downes: PEGGasus Opens for Business Nov. 24. One of my projects launches today, the PEGGasus learning marketplace. "The PEGGasus vision is to bring together, in one location, information about as many professional development events and opportunities as possible - a location where these opportunities can be searched, evaluated and selected by people in the Alberta engineering and geoscience professions. We want to be your resource of choice on matters of continuing professional development." Originally based on my paper, The Learning Marketplace, PEGGasus has benefited from two years of collaboration and development by the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA), the Institute for Professional Development at the University of Alberta and Terra Prime. At the launch, PEGGasus lists more than 1500 items harvested from 30 sources, according to today's news release. Since today is launch day, expect some tweaks to the system. But after a shakedown of a few months, we expect to have a model we can export to other professional development communities. "What makes PEGGasus unique in Canada is the fact that it brings together, in one virtual location, information about as many professional development events and opportunities as possible for Alberta[base ']s geoscience and engineering community," says PEGGasus Market Development Manager Derek McCune. "The one-stop shopping approach not only allows users to search, evaluate and select opportunities but an additional feature allows users to initiate a standing search agent service that will alert them by e-mail when an opportunity that meets their specific needs becomes available." PEGGasus is located at http://www.peggasus.ca By Various Authors, APEGGA, November 24, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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LionShare peer-to-peer project kicks off. When the Visual User Image Study at Penn State looked at the use of images by students and staff they discovered a good many hidden treasure troves. How, then, to share these and other digital assets without taking control away from the owners? The LionShare peer-to-peer project aims to reconcile the two. We talk to the project's lead, Penn State's Mike Halm. [CETIS: Standards in Education Technology]
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