I just attended the School of Engineering’s Learning and Teaching committee to report on the last two meetings of the e-Learning Committee and the outcomes of the HEFCW Benchmarking exercise. At the end of my report, I was asked the following question (only partly in jest I think): “What is…
It’s Ada Lovelace Day today and spurred on by Sue Charman-Anderson thousands have signed a pledge to post today about women who have made an impact in technology. The Guardian is supporting this effort and items are expected on the BBC News Channel at around 8.20 pm today. My rather…
A press release about the HEFCW-funded e-Learning projects has been issued. Professor Alan Speight, Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for the student experience and academic quality enhancement at Swansea University, said: “Our challenge now is to expand our e-Learning provision and to develop transferable technologies that can be applied across the full…
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I’m sure I’ll not be the only one, but let me add my congratulations to Sir Tim and his wonderful, annoying, ubiquitous invention. Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web via Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day by Jane Hart on 3/13/09 Scientific American has a great feature on…
So I subscribed to posterous.com (just by sending an email to post@posterous.com) and now I can post to the Learning Lab Community blog, Fresh and Crispy, Twitter and Flickr all at the same time … by email! And as I’m doing this at 12.42 am, I’ve obviously got a bad…
As noted in Alan Cann’s Science of the Invisible, EU funded funded project iCamp has published a handbook on “How to Use Social Software in Higher Education” and it’ll be on my “to read list” over the Easter break. The iCamp site itself looks to be worth monitoring.
Another SlideShare presentation from the School of Engineering’s Research Project module. This one has an embedded YouTube video. Because I wanted to refer to web sites in this presentation (and so avoid plagiarism myself) I started out using flowgram.com for this. Unfortunately, there is something wrong with the PowerPoint upload…
I have created a new slidecast which is on writing a research dissertation. It’s aimed at level 3 students in Engineering, but there may be parts that you can use and adapt for your own courses. The presentation is released under a creative commons license. How To Write Your Research…
“Electronic information may be easier for people to retain, yet it is also more ephemeral, and forgettable, than the printed word, and its burgeoning popularity may herald a brave new world in which no one holds on to anything, not even a thought.” Richard Fallis, “Thanks for the Memories” CILIP…
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