“Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work. This guide has been produced by the International Centre for Guidance…
At the risk of being accused of a self-publicising narcissist, may I nonetheless mention two e-Learning related posts from my Blog Fresh and Crispy. My First Pencast demonstrates a learning object that I created using a Livescribe Echo smart pen. Screencasting for Lecture Capture reports on my experiment in creating almost no-effort learning…
Just seen this from from Chris Jobling @cpjobling Looks quite like PC Room 1 in the Library. I agree with Chris that it would be great for small classes but how could we make it work with larger ones. Perhaps the need is for much more flexible learning spaces and…
A comment I read recently on a post made by Tony Bates concerning the highly variable quality of OER material included this snippet: “I had great hopes for the Open Courseware initiative but after wandering through the offerings of quite a few universities and I can’t say I’ve found anything…
Michael Wesch has been very influential in framing the debate around e-learning. I first came across him via his video The Machine is Using Us, published in March 2007, and I still use it as an introduction to my Level 1 lab course on Practical Internet Technology. It has 1,358,994…
Our friends at @rscwales have today re-tweeted Mary Jacob’s (@msjacob) announcement of new case studies in technology enhanced learning (TEL) hosted on the Aberystwyth University Nexus site (nexus.aber.ac.uk). On an initial scan, I was particularly taken with Grade Centre for electronic learning portfolios by Ayla Göl because I believe that…
What have the subjects in the title of this post got in common ? Well, they are all part of the offerings in the new app from the British Library (£2.39 iPhone and Android, £3.49 for the iPad). The Treasures app is designed to enable you to interact with over…
You might be able to flog them to a student ! Some surprises from a recent Book Industry Study Group survey (America’s leading book industry association according to their website) suggesting students aren’t quite as keen to jump onto the e-book bandwagon just yet. This report on the research claims…
Stephen Wolfram has recently announced the availability of the first of a planned series of “course assistant” apps: An App for Every Course, and More. These apps, which are powered by Wolfram|Alpha and cost $1.99 (£1.19) for Algebra and Music Theory and $2.99 (£1.79) for Calculus, have the potential to…
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