A plagiarism conference attracted a lot of interest in the press, before, during & after the event. One such report was Net Students ‘think copying OK‘, on the BBC. The Guardian had a similar report. Earlier, the BBC reported on what has been termed “contract cheating”. Mike Reddy, at the University of Newport, is trying…
Category: Educational
Post-match markers crash websites
Edexcel’s marking site crashed on Sunday after the England match; I’ve read before about the electrical surges generated by opening fridges & boiling kettles, but not seen the impact of deciding to do your marking!…
PLEs & Google.
Since attending the PLE workshop, I’ve been mulling over the possibility of using a Google personal page as a form of PLE. I’ve already downloaded Google Notebook, which resides on the lower bar of the browser. I’ve got several different feeds onto my personal page (Gmail, Google Reader, BBC news etc.,), however, there are some…
Social software and learning
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…
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…
Why reading is even more important in the digital age.
Clare Brett has the Powerpoint presentation of a session that she gave in Toronto recently. There is a good overview of why reading is so important today – including the ability to be critical about what is read. There’s a comprehensive list of references. via: Steven Downes…
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…
Pupils to sit first online exams
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Pupils to sit first online exams. In this case, it’s going to be multiple choice questions in Biotechnology. I hope that at some stage (preferably not too far away), some of the types of question that were tested by students in Northern Ireland can be used. I’m no longer able…
It's getting noisy
Konrad Glogowski has a wonderful description of his blogging community … I feel like I am in a very noisy place. Its like being in a tiny cafe where, around each tiny table, there are conversations that you overhear as you order your latte and check your pockets for change. I’d love our MSc eLearning…
More teachers getting to grips with ICT, says report
A reasonably positive report, though it was sponsored by Dell… Via Anne Davies…