Category Archives: Education

Government as a “social machine”

“Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social constraint – the very processes from which society arises. Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines on the Web: processes in which the … Continue reading

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The challenge of twenty first century learning? Seeing the hidden connections

“The field of instructional design has developed separately from other theoretical orientations such as research on artificial intelligence, organizational learning and collaborative teaching and learning. Thus, the main problem of instructional design has been its isolation from other fields of … Continue reading

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Learning science and technology … just remember to put the human first

This week I started my Learning Science and Technology programme at the University of Sydney. It seems that the course has attracted some 25 new starters this year, up from 15 in previous years, and this may well be a … Continue reading

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