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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Learning Designer?

“In order for technology to enhance learning in classrooms, teachers need to be involved in its design. In this way technology and teaching can evolve together to improve productivity and efficiency.” So says the opening sentence of the webpage for the Learning Designer (LDSE) project. The project is part of…

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Desperately seeking forum …

© Copyright P.L. Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons License I’m looking for some forum software.  Some open source forum software (as we have a budget of approximately nothing …) to be more exact.  I don’t know what direction to go in so I thought I’d offer…

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Mostly wireless

The campus has now returned to normal with 13,000 happy, fresh faced students swarming all over it !  One third of them (at least), not really sure what they are doing and trying to make friends.  The sound of overly loud laughing followed by flushed embarrassed silences bubbles up around…

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Want clickers but not PowerPoint?

The clickers are becoming increasingly popular – we now have 10 sets in the library and a number of colleges have their own but what if you don’t like PowerPoint, use a Mac or Prezi? TurningPoint have a new application called Turning Point Anywhere.   According to their website: “Using…

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Publication Opportunity

The 4th issue of the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) is in preparation and will be released early in 2012. They say they have a good range of contributions already but there is still space for a few more papers, case studies, opinion pieces or reviews.. They…

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Use Turningpoint? There may be an app for you.

If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch and use Turning point, there’s a nifty new app for running your Turningpoint presentations. I’ve had a play with it and seems to do pretty much as it says it does, including viewing the votes as they are coming in and…

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