Futurelab – Research – Publications I’ve got a lot of posts sitting in the “draft” section of my blog – i.e. things that looked interesting at the time, but I didn’t have time to do anything about them. This was one (luckily I’ve found the .pdf version, as I’m still not fond of reading on…
Category: eLearning
Podcast lectures for uni students
Podcast lectures for uni students I’m a little sceptical of the reasoning; though the article covers a bit more than the video. In the video, a lot is made of the getting your biochemistry alongside your blur. No mention is made in the video of the fact that students can text questions to Dr. Ashraf…
Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW worldwide web
Anne Davies linked to this book edited Terry Freedman; he’s got an impressive list of contributors, and the book is one good idea following another. She quotes Peter Ford saying: Terrys view was that this should be a free download to encourage the widest possible audience To do that, it’s best to go to his…
More teachers getting to grips with ICT, says report
A reasonably positive report, though it was sponsored by Dell… Via Anne Davies…
Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~Blogs, wikis and Podcasts? What if we're all wrong?
With this as a title in one of Steven Downes’ posts, I was interested! He was commenting (vociferously), on an article by Terry Freedman, about a keynote speech given at the Naace Conference – by John Clare. John Clare is an Education journalist for the Daily Telegraph– and is fairly anti technology. So, it was…
Campus wide e-Portfolios
Dave Tosh looks at some of the implications of setting up campus wide ePortfolio systems; specifically by the University of Nebraska. He points out that while they have said that departments and schools can customise their views, the same isn’t possible for students. A few weeks ago – in fact, just about the same time…
iPod Maths
MathTutor has downloadable tutorials designed to be used on an iPod. The one that I’ve had a look at would require a video iPod, though I guess that you could use it with just audio. Though it said to download to iTunes & then to the iPod, I was able to download & play with…
Flickr – as learning Tool
Beth H has got an image in Flickr that’s being used as a learning tool. Different areas of the image have different notes attached to them – some by different posters. (Not sure if they are her class, or random visitors)…
OU to bring all course content online
The Guardian reports that all OU material will be online from October. It looks as if the material is going to be open access, as MIT courseware is. I’ve just had a look at the courses that are available at other institutions. Utah State has several in their Information Technology department. I rather like the…
blogs and wikis – why, how and who?
Abject Learning: Please respond: blogs and wikis – why, how and who? It’s a little late to respond now, as Brian’s talk was in January. However, the links that others have posted – how they are using Blogs & Wikis in Education are worth following & cover a variety of uses….