Archive for November 2006

Reuters view of e-learning - Charles Jennings, Global Head of Learning Reuters

Notes based on a presentation by Charles Jennings at the Informatology conference, Reuters, London Thursday, 16th November.
It was a valuable experience to find out what a large blue chip corporations take is on organisational and e-learning. In his keynote speech, Charles set the scene by explaining that high levels of skill do not necessarily [...]

Ultraversity graduation - online personalisation of learning through community

Today at Chelmsford Cathedral the first cohort of Ultraversity student researchers who had successfully studied for a BA (Hons), Learning, Technology and Research attended their graduation ceremony.
For most of the 140 graduates, this was the first time that they had actually met face to face although they had developed close friendships through [...]

Linking formal and informal learning - Jisc / Cetis conference

Bill Oliver Jisc 2006-20089 strategy
The Jisc mission statement is ‘To provide world-class leadership in innovative use of ICT to support education and research’
Bill explained that the fundamental idea behind enterprise architecture is that it seeks to align organisational structure and functions with ICT structure and functions.
He then explained that the Jisc saw innovation occurring through [...]

Jorum - Jisc funded project for the collection, sharing, reuse and repurposing of teaching materials

Jorum is an online repository that offers a searchable collection of learning and teaching resources catelogue. Funded by Jisc, this is a free service for UK F/HEIs and aims to provide long term access to resources. It along with other repositories and services are a part of of the developing Jisc Information Environment. [...]