Reading now available and still time to pick the date

The link below takes you to the reading group choice from the book “Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age” How Learners are Shaping their Own Experiences. You will need to your Swansea Blackboard password to access the content. ‘Understanding students’ uses of technology for learning: towards creative appropriation’ by Rhona…

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A vision of the future?

A free and open course from Stanford University, run by a commercial company, 160,000 students from around the world and a prediction that there will eventually only be 10 universities in the world. Video presentations, students creating course support, students taking the course online and not going to lectures even…

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And the SALT Reading Group winner is…

And the winner of the Reading Group poll is…. ‘Understanding students’ uses of technology for learning: towards creative appropriation’ by Rhona Sharpe and Helen Beetham. As everyone seems to love voting so much, we’ll have another poll. This time to find the best date for the reading group. If you…

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SALT Reading Group: The final run off

After the first round of voting two readings had the same number of votes. It’s now time to decide which one we ant to read Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.

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Time to choose for the SALT Reading Group

The last reading group post suggested we look at the new book “Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age” How Learners are Shaping their Own Experiences by Rhona Sharpe, Helen Beetham, Sara de Freitas has some interesting content. I thought we could look at one of the chapters for the reading…

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New Edition of the Educause Review

The latest edition is out now here: http://www.educause.edu/er From EDUCAUSE whose mission statement is “to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology” And they do have a go !

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Blackboard ? Open ?

© Copyright Dave Skinner and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence I’ve just finished brushing the dust off myself, which I picked up under my desk, having fallen off my chair in surprise after reading of Blackboard’s intentions ! Fasten your seat belts … and have a look…

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There is hope for me yet …

My Dad used to have one of these old reel to reel tape recorders. He had it all set up so he could record himself “murdering” (his word) on the piano whichever bit of popular easy listening had taken his fancy most recently. He was / still is actually pretty…

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