This blog is an introduciton to who am I am, and why I am here at CGU. My name is Chris Liapis, I am currently a second semester PhD student studying IS&T. I have a masters degree in computer science and by nature tend to be somewhat of a technical person. I am very intereted in strengthening my skills in research as I hope to continue through my career as a developer of new technologies.

In regard to the introductory readings, I'd like to point mention two pieces of literature. Specifically, the John Seely Brown paper and the 'Extending the Elgg' paper. I found a correlation to these papers in that they both veer far off from a position based on 'theory' and introduce alternative applications or methods in differential learning practices ("Learning to Be").

My question posed to the rest of class is, do you believe these intiatives are worth the time and research to experiment with, or is standard classroom learning the way we should continue to learn?

Thanks!