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…
If you can’t make it to tomorrow’s SALT Reading Group, there are some questions below that you might like to ponder. You can use the comments to add your thoughts. Are the authors correct that one of the main concerns of previous educational research ‘has been to find out what is wrong with students…
Sunday Morning Cover Story from CBS covers the issue of Plagiarism. A little over dramatic but interesting nonetheless
The next SALT Reading Group face-to-face meeting will be on Wednesday 14th November from 12-1pm in Training Room 1 in the Library. It’s the room next to the SALT Room. Feel free to bring your lunch. The link below takes you to the reading group choice from the book “Rethinking…
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…
Following on from this previous post, here’s more on MOOCs this time from the BBC Ivy League education free on the web Click’s Sumi Das reports on a “brand new project which is already causing ripples around the globe as it is making a top notch education available to anyone,…
Clayton R. Wright has published his annual listing of conferences that runs to a whopping 68 pages! According to the man himself, “The 27th version of the conference list provides over 1,000 events that may be of interest to educators. Readers are encouraged to cut and paste a selection of…
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