Interview with Martin Dougiamas

Interesting interview with Martin Dougiamas on the future of technology enhanced learning. From his own experiences as a child of the School of the Air in Western Australia to future developments and their impact on universities. It’s nearly 40 mins but worth watching. Interview with Martin Dougiamas from Michael Feldstein…

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Effective Assessment in a Digital Age Workshops

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age WorkshopsFrom challenge to change… Using principles of good practice, work with colleagues towards an effective model for the use of technology in assessment and feedback. A series of free workshops based around the JISC Effective Assessment in a Digital Age publication www.jisc.ac.uk/digiassess and associated…

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Kindle

There have been a couple of recent articles in The Guardian (Can Amazon turn e-Book Mainsteam?) and the BBC (Amazon Offers New Kindle for the UK Market) about Amazon’s imminent release of a UK Kindle and Amazon’s claim that some form of e-book tipping point is imminent. Does anyone know…

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Free eBook: Emerging Technologies in Distance Education.

This new eBook from Athabasca University looks at a whole series of emerging technologies for distance education. Incidentally, it contains a Chapter by Rita Kop on the TRIO Project in DACE.The blurb for the book call it a ” one-stop knowledge resource, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education showcases the international…

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Bye bye BECTA…….. who's next?

So BECTA is one of the first victims of the government’s spending cuts. Could it be the start of greater scrutiny of education IT projects? Will there be others to follow? As Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent for the BBC notes, BECTA “has been criticized for being captured by technology suppliers…

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E is for Excellent

I just attended the School of Engineering’s Learning and Teaching committee to report on the last two meetings of the e-Learning Committee and the outcomes of the HEFCW Benchmarking exercise. At the end of my report, I was asked the following question (only partly in jest I think): “What is…

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How to Use Social Software in Higher Education

As noted in Alan Cann’s Science of the Invisible, EU funded funded project iCamp has published a handbook on “How to Use Social Software in Higher Education” and it’ll be on my “to read list” over the Easter break. The iCamp site itself looks to be worth monitoring.

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We are not alone…

Today I typed learninglab into my web browser’s address bar with the intention of visiting Swansea University’s hottest  web destination. And I was intrigued by how many sites Google and Live Search threw up as suggested destinations. Quite a few are apparently concerned with the same things that Swansea’s Learning…

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