Posts Categorized: eLearning

Notes from “The Hacker Ethic: The New Culture after the Current Global Economic Crisis”

Today I have the great opportunity to attend at a research seminar entitled “The Hacker Ethic: The New Culture after the Current Global Economic Crisis” led by Prof. Pekka Himanen, who is currently a Visiting Professor at Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. After a very inspiring presentation, Prof. Himanen has encouraged us to keep the discussion online… Read more »

Measuring digital development for policy-making: Models, stages, characteristics and causes

Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend the defence of Ismael Peña‘ thesis Measuring digital development for policy-making: models, stages, characteristics and causes, “which deals about the digital economy and whether governments should help in its development for it might have a positive impact on the real economy and on the society at large”. Measuring… Read more »

Online Social Networks Roundtable with Howard Rheingold

First of all, I would like to thank Max Senges and Josep M. Duart as organizators of the roundtable with Howard Rheingold at Open University of Catalonia. Ismael Peña has alredy posted about Rheingold wonderfull talk, but here comes my notes and my reflection. Online Social Networks enable people to co-operate; have always existed, but… Read more »

Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space. Key speaker: Mimi Ito

Notes from the conference: Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space. Copenhagen October 15 – 18, 2008. Mimi Ito: Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Youth Participation in Networked Publics. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. Her research right now focuses… Read more »

Participative Web and User-Created Content. WEB 2.0, WIKIS AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

Little by little Web 2.0 movement is being approached by theory and empirical data. As an example of empirical data approachs, OECD has launched Participative Web and User-Created Content. Web 2.0, wikis and social networking The concept of the “participative web” is based on an Internet increasingly influenced by intelligent web services that empower users… Read more »

Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World. OECD Ministerial Meeting

On 17-18 June 2008 in Seoul holds OECD Ministerial Meeting: The Future of the Internet Economy The Internet is a key infrastructure for global economic growth and social development. Three major trends – Convergence, Creativity and Confidence – are influencing the policy environment for the Internet Economy. Each of these trends reflects significant shifts in… Read more »

References about Access, Use and Consequences of ICT in Health/eHealth and Network Society

Since I have begun to use ICTconsequences Bibliography I have collected 161 references and I`m sure that I will increase this number. Anyway if you are interested in search the database I recommend you to search the literature database by: Simple Search – search the main fields of the database Advanced Search – search all… Read more »

New Web-based tools, health education and health communication

It looks like the Web 2.0 has arrived to the field of health education as far as we can find articles talking about it. I have read Boulos, M., et al. (2006). “Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education.” BMC Medical Education 6(41): 8 [link]… Read more »