http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/07/547/ Pontydysgu - Educational Research Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/07/547/comment-page-1/#comment-6276 Graham Attwell Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:57:48 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/?p=547#comment-6276 Thanks Martin - would love to have a play with it when ready. Agree that is is important to be upfront about OUs motivation and it is interesting that a business concern is allowing such a space for innovation and in particular to explore social networking. Think issue of business models is interesting - what are the different ways of explaining the changes which are or could happen - do the way we explore those changes effect the different scenarions we might develop (don't have an answer to this but would seem possibly important). Thanks Martin – would love to have a play with it when ready. Agree that is is important to be upfront about OUs motivation and it is interesting that a business concern is allowing such a space for innovation and in particular to explore social networking.
Think issue of business models is interesting – what are the different ways of explaining the changes which are or could happen – do the way we explore those changes effect the different scenarions we might develop (don’t have an answer to this but would seem possibly important).

]]> http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/07/547/comment-page-1/#comment-6275 Martin Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:29:57 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/?p=547#comment-6275 Phew! When you said you disagreed with a lot of what I said, I was concerned I had said something stupid! But these are valid points. To take your two objections: i) Business models - I partly agree that money may not be the best starting point. It isn't _my_ main interest - I'm really interested in unpicking how social networking can really be used to enhance learning. But I wanted to be clear that exploring business models was _a_ motivation for the OU. Partly this is because I think we should be upfront about this, and also partly because exploring the business models is also a way of understanding the changes that are, or could, happen in education. ii) The technology focus - ah, I'm getting into technological determinism waters again (I've been debating this over on D'Arcy Norman's blog). Actually it's the processes that are more important, things like the democratic nature, user generated content, etc But these are made possible by the technology. In short it's not that a wiki itself is important, but that what wikipedia represents is (the removal of the filter, democratisation of knowledge, distribution produces quality, long tail of interests, etc). Thanks for the comments, be good to let you have a play when there's a bit more bones on it. Martin Phew! When you said you disagreed with a lot of what I said, I was concerned I had said something stupid! But these are valid points. To take your two objections:
i) Business models – I partly agree that money may not be the best starting point. It isn’t _my_ main interest – I’m really interested in unpicking how social networking can really be used to enhance learning. But I wanted to be clear that exploring business models was _a_ motivation for the OU. Partly this is because I think we should be upfront about this, and also partly because exploring the business models is also a way of understanding the changes that are, or could, happen in education.
ii) The technology focus – ah, I’m getting into technological determinism waters again (I’ve been debating this over on D’Arcy Norman’s blog). Actually it’s the processes that are more important, things like the democratic nature, user generated content, etc But these are made possible by the technology. In short it’s not that a wiki itself is important, but that what wikipedia represents is (the removal of the filter, democratisation of knowledge, distribution produces quality, long tail of interests, etc).
Thanks for the comments, be good to let you have a play when there’s a bit more bones on it.
Martin

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