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SEMINAR 13 Transnational higher education networks of learning and teaching in geography (TNLTs) - some preliminary findings 26 May 2011 10.30am - 12.30am British Summer Time The recording of Kelly's talk is available at: http://tinyurl.com/elks-kw Speaker: Kelly Wakefield, PhD researcher, Geography Department, Loughborough University About the seminar: Despite a growing interest in geographies of higher education, little is known about higher education learning and teaching networks, the corporeal mobility of the network members alongside the virtual mobility of information and the subsequent circulation of knowledge. Participation within transnational learning and teaching networks arguably provides benefits of face-to-face social networking, online social networking and consequent knowledge flow. However, the sharing of ideas and information with other academics may be compromised through remaining barriers of global communication between members such as language, culture and access to technology. A global digital divide overshadows technology and the Web 2.0 revolution, hinting at post colonial undertones to membership and access to networking. This session aims to highlight some preliminary findings from my research and explore the themes and topics that arise from participation in learning and teaching networks. Possible findings may include the dimensions of access to the networks, motivations to participate and participation in regard to online platforms and face-to-face meetings. About the speaker: Kelly is a human geographer studying for a PhD on transnational higher education networks of learning and teaching in geography at Loughborough University. She studied for a BA at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston and for a MA in Landscape and Culture at the University of Nottingham. Her interests have moved within human geography over the years from looking at space, place and placelessness to culture and landscape, however, her interests now lie in areas of geographies of higher education and virtual landscapes. Having been a Research Assistant at the University of Chester, she became familiar with the Beyond Distance Research Alliance’s Impala 2 (podcasting) project at the University of Leicester. The relationships between higher education, networking, knowledge flows and technology have helped to shape the research that she is currently undertaking. Moderators: Palitha Edirisingha and Simon Kear Discussion: A thread for Seminar 13 has been set up in the Dicussion Area of ELKS.

SEMINAR 13
Transnational higher education networks of learning and teaching in geography (TNLTs) - some preliminary findings

26 May 2011
10.30am - 12.30am British Summer Time

The recording of Kelly's talk is available at: http://tinyurl.com/elks-kw

Speaker:
Kelly Wakefield, PhD researcher, Geography Department, Loughborough University

About the seminar:
Despite a growing interest in geographies of higher education, little is known about higher education learning and teaching networks, the corporeal mobility of the network members alongside the virtual mobility of information and the subsequent circulation of knowledge. Participation within transnational learning and teaching networks arguably provides benefits of face-to-face social networking, online social networking and consequent knowledge flow. However, the sharing of ideas and information with other academics may be compromised through remaining barriers of global communication between members such as language, culture and access to technology. A global digital divide overshadows technology and the Web 2.0 revolution, hinting at post colonial undertones to membership and access to networking. This session aims to highlight some preliminary findings from my research and explore the themes and topics that arise from participation in learning and teaching networks. Possible findings may include the dimensions of access to the networks, motivations to participate and participation in regard to online platforms and face-to-face meetings.

About the speaker:
Kelly is a human geographer studying for a PhD on transnational higher education networks of learning and teaching in geography at Loughborough University. She studied for a BA at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston and for a MA in Landscape and Culture at the University of Nottingham. Her interests have moved within human geography over the years from looking at space, place and placelessness to culture and landscape, however, her interests now lie in areas of geographies of higher education and virtual landscapes. Having been a Research Assistant at the University of Chester, she became familiar with the Beyond Distance Research Alliance’s Impala 2 (podcasting) project at the University of Leicester. The relationships between higher education, networking, knowledge flows and technology have helped to shape the research that she is currently undertaking.

Moderators:
Palitha Edirisingha and Simon Kear

Discussion:
A thread for Seminar 13 has been set up in the Dicussion Area of ELKS.

About ELKS

ELKS shares resources and expertise via online forums about using technology in learning.

ELKS activities involve:

analysing existing and on-going research, programmes and practices in e-learning and distance learning, to identify best practice and developing guidelines, standards or templates for dissemination
sharing knowledge and findings of research studies on cutting-edge, new or emergent issues in higher education
identifying technological or organizational transformational solutions in order to overcome barriers to development using Information and Communication Technologies in the higher education sector
actively seeking opportunities for, and facilitating, multi-stakeholder partnerships and resource sharing in research into e-learning and distance learning education.

ELKS members take part in and host discussions, seminars and courses, entirely online, to exchange and inform one another in areas of expertise in the research and practice of e-learning. Online events are focused for maximum benefit from minimum investment of time.

ELKS invites institutions and individuals to become members and help staff and students around the world better to understand and use technologies to support learning.

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Could not enter using Linux

Aug 20 2010, 2:00 AM EDT by Elias_aa

Thread started: Aug 11 2010, 6:51 AM EDT Watch

I tried to access the session with an Ubuntu Linux (version 10.04) PC running Firefox 3.6.8. Connection attempt with the Ubuntu PC resulted in an error.

System error

The Meeting Room could not connect the Adobe Connect Enterprise Server. Pleas re-launch the Meeting Room, or refresh your browser to restore the connection.

When I grabbed a Win XP box the connection was established.

I am glad to help you out if you want to ensure Linux compatibility in the future.

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RE: Could not enter using Linux
By: Elias_aa, Aug 20 2010, 2:00 AM EDT

Terese,

Thanks for your effort.

Unfortunately Red Hat is not an option for me. I work supporting Finnish schools in their use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software a.k.a FLOSS. Ubuntu is widely used in Finland due to its Edubuntu-package. I would suppose the same applies for UK as well. I also do some technical tweaking and support as a part of my work so in this case I just stick to Ubuntu.

If we think about your mission as a public organization spreading out information we should also consider the fact that Ubuntu is also gratis - it does not cost you anything. Red Hat is a commercial product. Fedora is the gratis counterpart of Red Hat. The gratuity issue is not an issue in most of the countries, especially inside EU but in many countries the cost of proprietary operating systems is too high. Majority of African countries belong to this group. This is why I choose to use these gratis pieces of software: they give many people priceless advantages.

As for the problem: I would really like to dig into the technical quality of the problem with your techies if that's OK. Just drop me a line @ elias.aarnio at innopark.fi.

I had not heard of Wimba before. However, being Java-based is not the important thing here when speaking about compatibility. The crucial issue is how audio and video are handled. This link:
http://www.spsu.edu/asc/wimba_students/Wimba_classroom.html
suggests that there still is Flash involved handling audio and video. The limitations are exactly the same as in Connect Pro and also in FLOSS conferencing software like OpenMeetings and DimDim: it is not possible for a Linux user to be the host in a meeting.

See: http://openmeetings.de/openmeetings/
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
http://www.dimdim.com/

I will however ask them for a test round on Wimba and see how it works.

Sincerely,

Elias Aarnio

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Cant enter seminar room

Aug 12 2010, 7:02 AM EDT by tbirdcymru

Thread started: Aug 21 2009, 5:18 AM EDT Watch

Palitha
Do I need a different password to enter the seminar room? The one I used to join does not seem to be working.
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