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Disciplines and cultures in institutions

Another excellent talk, "De-localized Production of Scientific Knowledge", from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society by Peter Galison of Harvard’s Department of the History of Science.

Among other things, this talk is a very useful introduction to the concept of disciplines, that takes in the history of disciplines as well as their current social and cultural production. The talk is based in the Physics v. Engineering debates but takes in social sciences and humanities as well.

Learning and Internationalism, ALT-C 2007

Hans-Peter Baumeister, thematic strand synoptic speaker (link to slides when I get it).

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Global justice and the future: Web 3.0 is the mesh

Serendipity or selection? Three podcasts from the Berkman centre peaked my interest. Danh Boyd, I mentioned here, but the other two need attention: Nicholas Negroponte gave a keynote at this year's Internet and Society conference about the history and development of the one laptop per child project (OLPC) and Ron Deibert, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto discussed Securing Human Rights Online.

Serendipity in social-network critique

Today I found two discussions interesting and possibly salutory for social networks. "danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace", a Berkman Luncheon Series discussion, and a post on Stephen Downes OL Daily, "Anatomy of a Community Meltdown".

Sounds of the Bazaar and Patrick MacAndrew: Open Learn

You don't know what you don't know, and I didn't really know about Graham Attwell's other projects until this weekend. Graham gets a great interview from the Open University's Patrick MacAndrew about Open Learn here. Scroll through to 31 minutes, or, listen to the whole thing. It will reward you.

Perer Norvig, Head of Research at Google, ALT-C 2007

Learning in an open world?

Reflections on ALT-C

A few reflections from Alt-C 2007.

Benchmarking

Where are institutions going with e-learning? Terry Mayes asked the "Exocet questions" and tried to marshall answers from the panel and the floor.

Are we tinkering? Michelle Selinger at ALT-C

Michelle Selinger asks, "Do we need to do more?" More of what? Michelle throws down yet another challenge from the corporate sector to the universities sector. Selinger calls herself an "escaped academic". She identifies 3 chasms: cultural (cultural), school/university (sectoral), formal/informal learning (personal). What is informal learning? Having worked 15 years in the corporate sector for the energy industry, I consider my self a corporate escapee.