Thursday 15th October was the HE/FE Show in London billed as the only show of its kind for HE and FE. Arriving at Earl’s court I was surprised to see that the train was not running and a circuitous route via West Brompton was needed. When I did get to…
Streamed live on Sep 2, 2014 Inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem, Catherine will explore “navigating the marvellous”, the challenge of being open in higher education. To be in higher education is to learn in two worlds: the open world of informal learning and the predominantly closed world of the…
Highlights from the SUSALT conference 2014 – Lis Parcell, Jisc RSC Wales, Information Systems and Services I was delighted to get a proposal accepted by Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching for its 2014 conference, and I really enjoyed taking part. Here are some personal reflections from the workshops I…
Isabel Costello has been part of the SALT Team over the summer on a SPIN placement. You may have met her at the SALT Conference. She is also a University rep for the Students as Partners Network. In this role she recently attended the Students as Partners Network conference in…
Last week was the annual BETT Show http://www.bettshow.com/, which this year has moved to the ExCel Arena in London’s Docklands. Apart from being the wrong side of London it was a much better venue than in previous years. All the usual big tech companies were there with tablets, tablets and…
Chris Jobling has been exploring ways of enhancing the Community of Practice we have around learning & teaching and has suggested we run some regularish lunch time sessions in a similar vein to Bitly http://blog.bitly.com/post/63379760709/lunch-and-learn-why-we-do-it-and-why-you-should-too The idea is not to run training session or a full on seminar. At Bitly…
Audrey Waters recently visited Seymour Papert and I liked her comment that, “MOOC providers making headlines with claims of the latest ed tech revolution desperately need to read Mindstorms” It’s one of my favourite books and was written by Seymour Papert. Every ‘SALTer’ should know about Papert as we have…
Would you like to present content from your phone? Fed up of being blinded by the overhead projector? A new product from Google might help. Google have released Chromecast, which aims to make any TV a Smart TV – although it’s only available only in the US at the moment.…
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…
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.…
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