Well, That Went Really Well – Kevin Child Head of ELTS

Kevin Child , Head of ELTS, from  his Travels in HE Blog writes about the recent English In Wales Conference held in Swansea.  http://kceltsblog.blogspot.co.uk/ What a great day the LEW Conference turned out to be! (I’m not as surprised as I sound here, I know who put the work in to ensure the…

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Reading Group to meet at last

The next SALT Reading Group face-to-face meeting will be on Wednesday 14th November from 12-1pm in Training Room 1 in the Library. It’s the room next to the SALT Room. Feel free to bring your lunch. The link below takes you to the reading group choice from the book “Rethinking…

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The Worldwide Flipped Clasroom

Following on from the Flipped Classroom session at the recent SALT Conference, I’ve been watching the video below that shows Daphne Koller talking about Coursera.  Here she is, according to the blurb, “enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service,…

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You know how like, Wikipedia is like, really bad …

Wikipedia has not always had the best of reps amongst academics … and that is probably putting it mildly ! The reasons are many and varied. I just searched for “why do academics hate Wikipedia ?” and got reasons including: “coz it iz smarter than they iz !” (obviously written…

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Looking for a conference to present to?

Clayton R. Wright has published his annual listing of conferences that runs to a whopping 68 pages! According to the man himself,  “The 27th version of the conference list provides over 1,000 events that may be of interest to educators.  Readers are encouraged to cut and paste a selection of…

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