A vision of the future?

A free and open course from Stanford University, run by a commercial company, 160,000 students from around the world and a prediction that there will eventually only be 10 universities in the world. Video presentations, students creating course support, students taking the course online and not going to lectures even…

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And the SALT Reading Group winner is…

And the winner of the Reading Group poll is…. ‘Understanding students’ uses of technology for learning: towards creative appropriation’ by Rhona Sharpe and Helen Beetham. As everyone seems to love voting so much, we’ll have another poll. This time to find the best date for the reading group. If you…

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SALT Reading Group: The final run off

After the first round of voting two readings had the same number of votes. It’s now time to decide which one we ant to read Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.

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Time to choose for the SALT Reading Group

The last reading group post suggested we look at the new book “Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age” How Learners are Shaping their Own Experiences by Rhona Sharpe, Helen Beetham, Sara de Freitas has some interesting content. I thought we could look at one of the chapters for the reading…

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Suggestion – Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age

The new book “Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age” How Learners are Shaping their Own Experiences by Rhona Sharpe, Helen Beetham, Sara de Freitas has some interesting content. I thought we could look at one of the chapters for the reading group. You can see see the full contents here…

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Research in Learning Technology now open access

Research in Learning Technology is the journal of the Association for Learning Technology and is now open access so that access, including back issues, is now available free of charge. The journal aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes…

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World's cheapest tablet. Shall we buy some?

I missed this when it was launched last year but could a sub £50 tablet be as significant as the makers claim? Designed in the UK but commissioned by the Indian government for Indian university students the Aakash is a 7″ tablet running Google Android. It’s pretty low spec compared…

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You Tube for Schools

You Tube has added the new You Tube for Schools http://www.youtube.com/schools. The ideas is to have all the educational content without Fenton, Cute cats and Rick. A bit like TeacherTube really. The project has content provided by over 600 educational outlets such as TED and the Smithsonian, with subjects broken…

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