Ismael Peña-López, lecturer and researcher
Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D
I don’t fancy talking about bloging, the blogosphere and so – I think it’s quite endogamic.
Nevertheless, I liked this couple of links:
[Everything via Extension 337]
This is something I talked about three months ago and then uploaded in my articles section an article about e-learning for nonprofits, based on F/OSS e-learning platforms, free (licensed) content and virtual volunteers. Unfortunately, at least for some of you ;), it was only in Spanish.
Still having to find the time to translate it, I did find the time to put it in a simple image.
The question is that, simplifying to the maximum, an e-learning course for nonprofits – and for whoever – can be done with three main pillars or pieces of the puzzle, and that these pieces can be at zero cost:
If you can’t read the image, the pieces are:
Human Resources
e-Volunteers
e-learning platform (LMS)
F/OSS LMS
.Lrn
Campus for Peace
Etc.
Content
Creative Commons
OpenCourseWare
Project Gutenberg
Etc.
Not very elaborated, but wasn’t I supposed to keep it simple? :P
Last Friday I was speaking at the Quality in the Third Sector Seminar but also attended the whole event.
In her speech, Manuela Pérez, manager of the Quality and Productivity Program of the CIDEM said:
“Training is not education: training is teaching someone how to do some things but not telling him why”
I had never looked at it that way… Thus, I think we should educate more than train people, specially those less developed…
Downloaded and installed Kitten’s Spaminator. Hope it helps me out with some asshole usually spamming here (and all around the WordPress-sphere) :@
[via The Development Gateway and then to UNESCO Bangkok]
ICT4D – Connecting People for a Better World
This publication discusses whether ICTs are effective instruments to empower people, reduce poverty and improve lives, or whether they are just deepening the already existing inequalities and divisions in the world. Key innovators, leading CEOs, top-level government leaders and grass-root practitioners all contributed to its content, which includes sections on fostering policy and implementation, innovating for equitable access and promoting local content and knowledge.
Haven’t read it yet, just a quick look, so no comments yet, but I thought I should share it and, over all, post it here so I don’t lose the reference amongst my growing bookmarks.
Susan Smith Nash writes Distributed Communities of Practice in E-Learning in XplanaZine.
The list of group members profiles in a distributed community of practice in e-learning looks quite complete and I should [note to self] go back to it whenever I finally decide to write down something that’s been keeping me busy these days. The profiles go thus:
