I’m currently watching the recording of a presentation called Where is the open education movement going?, organised by Educause Live, which is:
“…a series of free, hour-long interactive web seminars on critical information technology topics in higher education. Each seminar is delivered live using online audio and video/image presentation technology, allowing you to interact directly with the host and guests through your web browser.”
I wanted to pass this particular presentation along a couple of reasons. First and foremost it involves a discussion on Open Education by some of the key, driving …

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This clip covers a video discussion tool known as Tokbox. I’ve been meaning to post a walk through for this service for some time but the fates have conspired to keep me at bay until now. Happily I managed to complete it earlier today.
From their About Page:
“Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here’s how it …

By way of my colleague Barry Cheung, today’s Sydney Morning Herald (“Videoconferences distort decisions, study finds“) points to the results of a study of video conferencing in which researchers indicate decisions can be distorted by the nature of the medium.
The research sample included “44 medical professionals who took part in early morning medical seminars via business-quality video links, and 99 peers who were in the room with the presenters.”
According to the study, the participants who were in the same room as the presenter were more likely to base their judgment …

In the last 12 hours I’ve met and held discussions with colleagues in Mexico and the Netherlands. In both cases the mood was quite relaxed and friendly. There were no particular aims or objectives; nor tasks or responsibilities to be “owned.” In the same way you’d have chats at the coffee cart or the water cooler, these discussions were both social and professional at the same time.
The fascinating thing about this is that I haven’t experienced the same combined levels of engagement, lighthearted social interaction and professional …

There’s been a great deal of chatter recently in the wake of Adobe’s two-fisted launch of acrobat.com and Acrobat 9. As Erik Schonfeld from TechCrunch elaborates ["Webtop Watch: Adobe Launches Acrobat.com and Releases Acrobat 9 (With Flash)"]:
“Acrobat.com is a combination of three recently launched online services: Adobe Brio (online meetings), Adobe Buzzword (online word processor), and Adobe Share (online file sharing). Thus with the public beta launch of Acrobat.com, Adobe is taking on Google Docs, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, WebEx, and GoTo Meeting—all at the same time.”
I have of course …