By now I expect that you will have heard of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and how it will impact the University. Previously Phil Brophy provided an excellent blog that summarises what TEF is and what it means for the university (Phil Brophy’s Blog), so I’ll not repeat anything here…
The September IT month session on WebPA on the 12th of September had a look at this peer assessment / review tool, and how it is integrated into Blackboard here at Swansea. Our association with the tool started several Years ago with Professor Dave Clark in the College of Science…
Having spent most of the previous week fretting and being unreasonable to friends and family due to nerves at the prospect of being streamed live to the Universe University (it just felt like the Universe), this was actually OK ! I forgot a few things, I said a few things…
Test …
Stephen Downes hasn’t managed to provoke any action in me recently, other than to leave his daily email unread. He has enjoyed talking about MOOCs much more than is healthy for months now, and I could take no more. I’m especially glad therefore, that I decided to have glance through…
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…
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 !
© 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…
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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