Guardian Unlimited Researchers at Southampton have been looking at open access to published research. “, Prof Harnad’s plan, which has already been put in place at his own university, calls for all academics who have had research papers accepted by journals to place information about the paper – such as its title and author, known…
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COL Learning Object Repository
The Commonwealth of Learning an organisation based in Canada focussing on learning within the Commonwealth, has just opened this LO repository of materials from across the commonwealth. A number of online databases of learning content or Learning Object Repositories – have been created around the world including CAREO, MERLOT and EdNA. COL has worked…
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology This seems to be a pretty comprehensive site. According to the home page: The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and…
CETIS-Getting to grips with Learning Design
CETIS-Getting to grips with Learning Design This is a report of a workshop held – looking at using Reload to generate XML. It sounds as if the users have found it not very easy / intuitive/ etc etc….
lecture from hell
jill/txt lecture from hell Well I’ve not had anything quite that bad! THough just hoping that I won’t have something like that on Friday – let’s hope that we have got the software sorted for the DISIP tutorial though….
Can web service technology really help enable "coherent diversity" in e-learning
This quite long article on the JISC eLearning site, looks at web services, and their links with eLearning. The term “web services”, is used by Scott Wilson to cover RSS, iCalendar (a way of sharing calendars, though it’s not XML based as other services are), and IMS Specification for people & groups (XML based). Having…
NESTA Futurelab – Showcase – Futurelab projects
NESTA Futurelab – Showcase – Futurelab projects Just found this, some pretty interesting interactive things that Nesta are looking at – in the main for schools. Moovl looks fun, I’ve had a go with the demo, and the Savannah project looks fascinating. There are quite a few there that I’ve not had a chance to…
Teaching and Learning Conference 2004
Terry and I did a short presentation (cut a little shorter by the fact that the Network wouldn’t let me log on), about blogs. The material that we used is http://userweb.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/T&L/BFAR2.html (if you would rather have a less scrolling and smaller writing, then http://userweb.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/T&L/60/BFAR2.html). I’ve also uploaded a Word Doc, which has all of the…
Understanding PISA
Stephen Downes has written an article reviewing a recent BBC report that suggested “Students who use computers a lot at school have worse maths and reading performance” . The BBC article was reviewing a CESifo sponsored report, which studied school performance in several European Countries, evaluating the influence of many factors, of which only 1…
Embanet SuccessLetter
Embanet SuccessLetter: When the Help Desk Is Not Just a Help Desk, But Instead, A Retention Tool for Online Programs. This article (pointed to in the RSS feed that I get), will, I think ring true for many students on the MSc in eLearning Technologies … As institutions look to recuperate time, effort and capital…