Presentation Slides for eLearning Forum Asia 2011

Google Books

Google has made available some books which can be read entirely online. Some are also downloadable such as the one below by Edward Gibbons.

Reflecting on Collaboration

Reading Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration, I could not agree more with the authors when they mentioned that one of the most prominent and desired result from collaborations is innovation. Thinking over the research on my own collaborative works with the academics, I struggled for some time to pinpoint why I perceived some cases to be less collaborative in nature than others. It wasn't until just now, as I was driving home and caught in traffic that I came up with an answer that satisfied my inquiry. The reason some works with the academics were deemed more collaborative is due to the degree of joint-ownership sensed by each collaborator in the collaborative effort. The ones I considered as less collaborative are those where my collaborators seem to show a lack of ownership in the process and outcomes of the collaboration. They were merely satisfied to passively cooperate and carry out the plans or designs without making much effort or giving priority to contribute deeper thoughts to its development. Although interests was shown in the ideas of innovation, it seldom accompanied with a greater commitment to pursue its development beyond mere implementation. Quite often, the interest shown towards the novelty of the innovation slowly fades away after an initial implementation in practice. What can be done to sustain the interest and develop a higher level of joint-ownership amongst the collaborators? I believe this is where Wenger's concept of communities of practice will provide insights into my research. I believe that the dimensions of a community of practice are the building blocks of a healthy collaborative effort.

Free by Chris Anderson

FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson

Opera Unite vs Google Wave?

Google Wave

ascilite 2009

I hope to present this small piece of my dissertation at ascilite 2009 if I finish writing it.

Complete a coherent write-up

As I struggle for months over the writing of my last few chapters of my dissertation, I begin to realize that I am actually missing the point. I am overly focus on delivering a perfect final product whereas what is actually required is learning from the process. Because what I am writing now will never be final, it will never be perfect. So, all I need to do at the moment is to focus on completing the task for obvious and various practical and down-to-earth reasons. I got to focus on the goal of writing a 'coherent, logical and hopefully interesting' dissertation and enjoy the process of tying it up. That is and will be my goal until June 2009.

Seth Godin on Tribes