Jon,
do you have papers on the topic?
--- Jon Maber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Adam Marshall wrote:
>
> >Our other main driver is to augment Bodington's
> 'notifications' facility -
> >this reports when somebody posts a message to a
> forum in which an interest
> >has been registered. We will extend this to
> external wiki's, forums and the
> >like. At the moment, when we add an external tool
> to Bodington, at best the
> >user will get a message from Bodington AND a
> message from the new tool
> >(maybe the new tool will not post this sort of
> info), what we really want is
> >one 'notification' message containing a summary
> from all external apps.
> >
> >
> Just to underline this point...
>
> VLEs provide a variety of ways for learners and
> teachers to interact
> with each other asynchronously. The obvious way is
> via messaging rooms
> but there are also shared learning logs, group
> activities etc. Because
> the interaction is asynchronous it's possible for
> activity to stall
> because someone is unaware that it is their turn to
> respond. Bodington
> has a notification system to help with this. Events
> are generated and
> recorded and users can switch on or off a
> notification flag for any
> resources they have access to. The user can choose
> to receive by email a
> daily or weekly digest of events including hypertext
> links to the
> resources. For example, one student in a group may
> be tasked to write up
> an activity and post it in a learning log - the
> notification system will
> prompt the other students when the posting is made
> so they know they
> should revisit and review the posting.
>
> This kind of tracking doesn't have much to do with
> recording 'clicks'
> but then VLEs aren't all about pumping documents to
> students are they?
> Better to post those to the student on a CD or even
> on paper ;-)
>
> Jon Maber
>
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