Quality OER ?

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…

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New Course on Personal Learning Environments

The middle of September, from 13th of September to be precise, I will be involved in another open online course. After our course on Critical Literacies over the summer the course this time will be about our bread and butter, Personal Learning Environments. Stephen Downes and I will be working…

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Augmented Reality?

Something else from my friends at AMU in Poland. Try this from General Electric 1. Go to http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality2. Have your webcam ready3. Print the marker4. Enjoy the fun!

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What motivates students?

So, what motivates people at work is challenge, mastery and making a contribution. Is that the same for students? Is it a better incentive than grade inflation? Will we get better students if we challenge them more, help them to be excellent according to their abilities and enable them to…

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What do our students think?

I’m going though some of the Benchmarking data at the moment and was putting some though Wordle. Chris Jobling suggested I put some of the information here. So, here it is. There are three Wordles (is that a word?) based on questions that were asked to students. There were 960…

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Move over Audacity?

Well not really because Audacity is a powerful audio editor but for making podcasts quickly and easily? Maybe? I’ve been having a play with Myna from a Aviary, which I picked up from Free Technology for Teachers. It’s pretty straight forward to use and is web based so that you…

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Conectivism course

A real interesting event for people involved in e-learning and learning technology is the new course by George Siemens and Stephen Downes on connectivism. It has awakened my interest in blogging again as I would like to contribute to the network. So far 1600 people worldwide interested in the subject…

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Blackboard – the future

Blackboard inc have released some video presentations about their Project NG (Next Generation) this is the hybred product that includes the final best of breed integration of WebCT and Blackboard into a single product. The presentation is not yet complete and more will be released as it becomes available. Nor…

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Community blog?

This section of the Learning Lab has been opened up to a number of additional bloggers. In addition, anyone can comment on the posts – you don’t need an account to join the disussion.

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