Pod-casting has been in the spotlight again recently, as people talk about whether anyone is still listening to them ! But podcasting continues to grow and grow … it has just slipped from the focus of the media’s eye. With that in mind, here are a few timely tips from…
Are you regretting your choice of academic discipline ? Is being a Professor of Economics* just not all you thought it was going to be and you’re wishing you’d followed your alternative dream of studying papyri in the shade of the shifting dunes on the west bank of the Nile,…
From the Department for Business, Information and Skills “The Government has accepted all ten recommendations made in Professor Hargreaves’ independent review on intellectual property, which estimates a potential benefit to the UK economy of up to £7.9 billion.” More information from the Department for Business, Information and Skills website
Interesting Video from Creative Commons New Zealand on Creative Commons licensing. I like the “this is what you can do” rather than the “whatever you are thinking about you can’t do it” approach.
The new Educause Review for July / August 2011 is now available by clicking here. This issue has the focus of whether or not it makes sense to keep doing it yourself nowadays when it comes to providing IT services at your institution, with a number of articles looking at…
© Copyright Kenneth Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons License The journal Science (via the BBC) considers research that our memories are no longer so full of answers, but instead fuller of where those answers are kept – on-line. Is this a good thing do you think…
“I think a long time ago, I thought it was going to be time saving. But I haven’t found it to be time saving. I wonder whether the powers that be, think that it might be time saving …” (Dr Catherine Suttle – Lecturer, School of Optometry and Vision Services,…
This presentation by Susanne Nobles (via our Canadian correspondent, who sometimes feels like my only source), considers something that came up at the recent away morning to discuss the new Learning and Teaching strategy (venue – the exotic and distant surroundings of the Council Chamber in the Abbey – why is it…
This I like. Trees networking. Do they have iPads ? Some of them certainly have apples … http://abject.ca/do-trees-communicate/ Thanks to Brian Lamb.
A summary of Martin Dougiamas talking about Moodle developments. Click here to view. For those of you who don’t have time to read the summary, the most interesting bits are: Certainty based marking. Right and certain – best marks. Wrong, but less certain – lose, but lose less … Lots…
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