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About the Tech Ticker

TechTicker discusses three primary topical areas – eLearning, educational technology and emerging technology – and seeks to:

• Analyse trends in emerging technology, with a particular emphasis on how they relate to, or impact upon education;
• Provide practical guides and suggestions on use or implementation of IT- or eLearning-related activities (e.g. software installation, Tips/Tricks);
• Impart commentary on emerging discussions or controversies across the IT sector;
• Act as a personal research aid for expanding the author’s understanding of learning theory, learning styles, and other pedagogical concepts;

About the Author

Maintained by Mike Bogle, Educational Technologist at the University of New South Wales.

Research Interests

• eLearning and educational technology
• Empowerment & personalisation of learning; open education; nurturing of self-directed learners
• Educational change; distributed and/or alternative learning models
• Educational applications of emerging technology and social software
• Trends in web-use and the Internet
• Formulation and sociology of online communities
• Web-based communication, VOIP, web conferencing and virtual environments
• Free, Open Source Software (FOSS): Philosophy, culture, sociology, technology

Publications

• Allen, B., Kligyte, G., Bogle, M. & Pursey, R. (2008). Communities in practice: A community dimension for the UNSW Learning & Teaching Exchange. In Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Proceedings ascilite Melbourne 2008. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/allen.pdf
• Koppi, A. J., Bogle, L. and Bogle, M. (2005) Learning objects, repositories, sharing and reusability. Open Learning 20, 83–91.