ConferenceNovember 12, 2006 11:04 pm
The keynote presentations of the EDEN Research conference are online now. I would recommend to take a look at the presentations by
Apparently, the recordings of the keynotes will be put online as well.
"Knowing Knowledge” by George Siemens
This weekend, I read a little bit into “Knowing Knowledge”, the new book by George Siemens, who put it all up on the internet as free and open content. This link leads to the accompanying website with a community to discuss the book, a print-on-demand version, etc. The pdf-version of the book can be found here.
Also, see Siemens’s presentation at the University of Manitoba yesterday (MP3 audio and PowerPoint slides) on social technologies.
Source: via Stephen Downes
I haven’t made it through the whole book yet, but I do like it even though it is addressed rather to business leaders than to academia or to anybody involved in knowledge management. It is definitely worthwile to read through the book although one might have a different stance on certain subjects.
Social Software 10:40 am
Via the blog Medienpraxis.ch I found out that a Web 2.0 unversity has been founded by Dion Hinchcliffe and O’Reilly Media. And my first thought was “Wow, things are getting really crazy now…”. Anyway, their only purpose seems to be to creat more web 2.0 business in various contexts. As it is stated on their website they want to involve:
For me, this is yet another sign that their are two web 2.0-worlds - one in business, and one in academia. And that academia is lacking way behind. I guess we’re all trying to work on this…“[…] brightest developers, curious corporate executives and inspired
entrepreneurs to learn how to most effectively utilize “the power of
the network.”"source: Web 2.0 university
