The world of e-learning is a vast space of sometimes unscrutinized areas. Many books and papers, as well as a manifold of projects have been created throughout the last years. In this landscape it is sometimes hard to keep track with the latest developments or even to understand the new buzzwords which emerge at every corner of the web. Mobile Learning, Learning 2.0, Teaching 2.0… What’s this all about? We will try to keep track of developments and will question them. In this blog, authors are welcome to take a heretic view on the latest changes. They will sketch out wild ideas, fail miserably in creating new concepts, and perhaps sometimes push things forward. At best, the last point mentioned here is achieved many times.
February 23, 2009
I’ve been reading some articles lately about the persona method as an example of pre-evaluation of websites and learned that there’s a discussion going on with a lot of pro and con arguments. I’d like to list some of them for the readers to make their their own opinion. You are welcome to leave comments.
February 23, 2009
I was (re-)reading John Maeda’s article on the new iPod Nano in the online edition of Business Week this morning. I had started the article about his article over a year ago, and—looking at it again—thought that some aspects still were true. So I rewrote it and came up with this:
February 22, 2009
As a designer working in an academic environment you are used to sit in presentations and get a badly designed PowerPoint presentation which at best distracts from the speech someone is giving. I know this is happening all the time and why bother? Well, I can tell you why.