In a recent podcast for Educause, George Siemens suggested the best way to get faculty to use new tools was to have them experience the tools. He contends that it’s not the competence with the tools that distinguishes teachers from students, it’s the willingness to try the tools. For the teacher it is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'social software'
Teachers and New Tools
February 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: educational technology · social software
Free and Open Content
January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I want to consider a distinction between free open source software, and free and open content.
Teemu Leinonen brings us this picture of the evolution of educational technology:
Leinonen describes our current state as social software and free and open content. I think we confuse the issue be assuming that all social software is free open source software. [...]
Tags: educational technology · open systems · social networking · social software