Steve Lowe (eLearning projects)

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Research & Development

 

 

Labs

Current labs include: multimodal design toolkit; course profiling; memetic approach to capability.
Past labs included: black box approach.

Links

[Gagnon & Collay, Constructivist Learning Design] - [Roger Schank, Engines for Education] - [Roger Schank: Alternative Learning Places] - [Works by Seymour Papert] - [Stager, Planet Papert] - [Mitchel Resnick] - [Thom Cochrane, Transforming Pedagogy with Mobile] - [Julian Ridden] - [Arduino] - [Fritzing] - [The Open University, OpenLearn] - [MITOpenCourseWare] - [FreeMoodle] - [WikiEducator] - [MyPortfolio (Tertiary)] - [Creative Commons: Otago Polytechnic] - [Journal of Memetics] - [James Lovelock] - [Notes on Braitenberg's Vehicles] - [William Gibson] - [GREATDISMAL] - [Rudy Rucker] - [FLURB]

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