Deux courts articles qui expliquement comment utiliser et ne pas utiliser les blogs dans l’éducation.

http://costofwar.com

pffff… regardez les comparaisons avec l’éducation

Destiné aux enseignants mais aussi bien aux parents: Blogging? It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson!

The mission of HigherEd.org, Inc. is to help transform higher education organizations by effectively leveraging web technology and data for knowledge management (KM).

http://edutella.jxta.org/

This project is a multi-staged effort to scope, specify, architect and implement an RDF-based metadata infrastructure for JXTA.

The first application we will focus on is a P2P network for the exchange of educational resources between German universities (including Hannover, Braunschweig and Karlsruhe), Swedish universities (including Stockholm and Uppsala), Stanford University and others.

Pour en savoir plus je vous renvoie à l’article en PDF intituté EDUTELLA: A P2P Networking Infrastructure Based on RDF

This paper suggests that personal Webpublishing technologies and practices can be conceptualized as a reflective conversational learning tool for self-organized learning. Beyond the examination of the theoretical basis for such a claim, initial ideas for specific learning environment designs on the basis of a ?conversational framework? are presented.

Personal Webpublishing as a reflective conversational tool for self-organized learning (PDF).

Un autre article académique (au format PDF) qui a comme sujet les weblogs dans l’éducation. Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments.

A noter également que l’auteur mentionne aussi la technologie RSS/Atom comme médium facilitateur pour l’enseignant.

Online learning environments (OLEs) are now critical to teaching and learning across Australian higher education. Their influence impacts on the availability of content, the design of courses and, perhaps most pedagogically significantly, the nature of communication. The discussion board is the ubiquitous communication tool within these OLEs and hence significantly shapes the kind of communication that takes place. In light of this, the degree to which a successful community of inquiry can be facilitated through the use of discussion boards is examined and compared to the possibilities afforded by weblogs in the same role. Weblogs, it is argued, offer new opportunities in the development of social, cognitive and teacher presence online and should be considered in the development of or alongside established OLEs.

Un article académique intitulé The Zen Art of Teaching Communication and Interactions in eEducation au format PDF.

Weblogs are one of the most discussed trends in business and education alike. From all these comments and publications it is clear that weblogs will have a bright future as a personal web publishing tool, but will they also invade the education and business areas? And more important: will their widespread use mean just another tool or a radical change? ? The line of argument in this paper is twofold: On the one hand we will outline some major requirements for an advanced educational environment by showing that weblogs’ inherent features will map these pedagogical needs. On the other hand we will compare weblogs with other kinds of content management systems and we will strive to give evidence that weblogs have the intrinsic potential to revolutionise the organisational structure of traditional education.

Plateforme web, développée à l’université de Hambourg (licence GPL), qui permet de gérer des processus de formation (selon le principe de l’apprentissage par projets). Pour en savoir plus lire aussi l’article Project-based Learning with CommSy.

Selon le classement mondial des meilleures universités, l’ETHZ se positionne au 27ème rang (troisième meilleure école en Europe) (source LeTemps).