iPad 2
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones has been trying out the iPad 2 launched today. He demonstrates the new video capability.
Brain-based Education: Fad or Breakthrough?
Interesting video from Professor Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He also did the “Learning Style Don’t Exist” video
Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do ?
Teaching and research can sometimes be slightly uncomfortable bedfellows, especially at institutions who pride themselves on their research. Learning and teaching can be viewed rather as the poor relation – albeit one that lives in the same house, has its name on the deeds and pays most of the mortgage.…
Social media: A guide for researchers
“Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work. This guide has been produced by the International Centre for Guidance…
Trumpet Blowing
At the risk of being accused of a self-publicising narcissist, may I nonetheless mention two e-Learning related posts from my Blog Fresh and Crispy. My First Pencast demonstrates a learning object that I created using a Livescribe Echo smart pen. Screencasting for Lecture Capture reports on my experiment in creating almost no-effort learning…
Change the classroom, change the learning!
Just seen this from from Chris Jobling @cpjobling Looks quite like PC Room 1 in the Library. I agree with Chris that it would be great for small classes but how could we make it work with larger ones. Perhaps the need is for much more flexible learning spaces and…
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…
iPad
Rethinking Education
Michael Wesch has been very influential in framing the debate around e-learning. I first came across him via his video The Machine is Using Us, published in March 2007, and I still use it as an introduction to my Level 1 lab course on Practical Internet Technology. It has 1,358,994…
