Author: Ben Werdmuller

When Dave and I set up Curverider a couple of years ago, the response was lukewarm. Elgg, as an open source product, was supposed to be free, wasn’t it? What was a commercial company doing with it? Did that mean it wasn’t going to be open source any more? Rumours flew round the e-learning blogosphere…

Over on the DataSharingSummit board on Facebook, which I ironically can’t show you because Facebook doesn’t allow for public data sharing, Marc Canter asked what rights we think end users should have. I replied as follows: I think there’s a serious danger of overthinking the discussion. If we wanted to, there’s enough meat in this…

Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression is a very long title for a book that apparently argues that computer science is a discipline separate from mathematics, that requires its own theory of process expression. Although I haven’t read the book, I agree; there are certainly many places where the two fields overlap,…

I had an interesting call with Simon Grant earlier about the developing LEAP 2.0 specification for representation of ePortfolio data. An ePortfolio is an electronic portfolio of evidence and reflections that collectively represents your skills, accomplishments, and sometimes learning process. Elgg, when coupled with its presentation tool, is a kind of ePortfolio. UKLeaP, the first…