A guest post follow-up from the SALT Conference Round Table Session by Sam Oakley, ISS Many thanks to all those who squeezed round the table at this year’s SALT Conference – the discussion was wide-ranging and thought-provoking and inevitably ran out of time! This blog post summarizes key points made…
Stephen Downes hasn’t managed to provoke any action in me recently, other than to leave his daily email unread. He has enjoyed talking about MOOCs much more than is healthy for months now, and I could take no more. I’m especially glad therefore, that I decided to have glance through…
Paul Edwards form the University of Michigan writes – ‘You’ve seen it a hundred times. The speaker approaches the head of the room and sits down at the table. (You can’t see him/her through the heads in front of you.) S/he begins to read from a paper, speaking in a soft monotone.…
I’ve been involved in a few MOOCs before and have been exploring them from the point of view of my day job. So far I’ve not managed to complete one but it hasn’t been the reason I’ve been following them. Some, especially the ones on the subject of learning technology itself have had bewildering amounts of…
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…
Sunday Morning Cover Story from CBS covers the issue of Plagiarism. A little over dramatic but interesting nonetheless
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,…
A library in the United States set up an astroturf campaign that advocated book burning in order to save itself. Thanks to Rebecca Kelleher (Currently Acting Student Communications Officer here at Swansea) for sharing this.
The latest edition is out now here: http://www.educause.edu/er The big story this time is “Top Ten IT Issues 2012”, which could be considered to be slightly premature considering it is only June … but there you go !
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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