Paul Lowe

The new 360 report by the e learning guild on e learning 2.0 has some fantastic data on what and who is driving the adoption of web 2.0 tools in e learning. I’ve been trying to make sense of the data, especially in relation to other reports that have just come out like the BECTA report on web 2.0 in UK schools I wrote about yesterday, and the… Continue

The BECTA report Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 has some great data from a survey on how schools in the UK are viewing web 2.0 in the classroom, and how children are using it outside of school time. And they make some really interesting conclusions from this, especially about the pace of web 2.0 and its pedagogical implications. Web 2.0 is widely used by children, with over 74% h… Continue

see this news story on ning

ning now has half a million social networks on its platform. Ning launched in February 2007 and has seen rapid growth and mainstream adoption ever since. According to Ning's co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini, Ning users now create a new social network every 30 seconds.

I've just written a post on my blog about how the new 'Daily Beast" from tina Brown might be a template for future online courses organised by 'digital curators'. Something like the Daily Beast, with a core team of ‘curators’ mixed in with invited experts to give fresh and deep insights into the subject area, and then combined with interaction from the par… Continue

from Ewan McIntosh's blog
UK Government Research: Web 2.0 does improve learning
New research from Scotland and the UK Government shows that Web 2.0 and gaming can and do make a difference to educational attainment and student experience.

Ewan links to a research report by… Continue