Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

UK and China sign e-learning deal:
An online education deal is being signed between firms in the UK and China – with plans to reach 20 million students.
(Via BBC News | Education | UK Edition).

Great news for UK PLC, but I can’t help being a little depressed by the views expressed in the article. Thoughts that [...]

On Monday, 17th September at approximately 3.30 pm Lily Powell decided to join us at a respectable 3 KG, or for anyone working in ‘old money’ 6lb 6oz I think:^)

Hopefully a downloaded Vienna script will make this possible.
I now use Vienna Newsreader instead of NetNewsWire and so far have found it to be comparable in terms of functionality that I require and its usability is good:
“Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable [...]

The BBC reports: Derive for more mature students
The rhetoric reported below fits squarely with our work at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics at Bolton University, as we work towards developing a range of new offering for workplace-based learning using inquiry methodology. It will be interesting to see if the governments words translate into any [...]

In developing a new set of framework courses at the Institute of Educational Cybernetics (IEC), University of Bolton, we have the challenging prospect of identifying a way froward for technology provision for online learners. Currently, Bolton runs on a mixed economy of WebCT and Moodle, but there is a debate to be had [...]