I have been playing around with Yahoo pipes for a while – a web service that lets you aggregate, filter, sort and broadcast RSS feeds. I think this is a great tool that ‘should’ be more popular than it is. Like many good ideas, the difficulty is trying to see how it can be used. [...]
David Eastwood on widening university access: If the students will not come to us, we must find ways of going to them, says David Eastwood. (Via Education Guardian, Tuesday October 23, 2007). The Four Cities report provides useful background to my work on the idibl project at the University of Bolton. The research aimed to [...]
‘Inherently frail’ – the verdict on marking: “Call for debate as lack of consistency in assessment attracts warning of student litigation. Rebecca Attwood reports. Lecturers’ marking of student work is “inherently frail” and assessment procedures would struggle to stand up to legal challenge, academics warned this week.” (Via The THES news). The interesting part of [...]
A Times Higher article about developments Gloucestershire University, 19 October 2007. I have posted the encouraging news from Gloucester further down this post, but I wanted to challenge the reported position taken by Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at University College London who found: “that the least intelligent students favour coursework because it allows [...]
From the BBC “Degrees ‘should give more detail Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 12:13 GMT 13:13 UK “…an inquiry conducted by university leaders says it has not found any better degree classification system. So grades such as first class, 2:1 and 2:2 will continue alongside a pilot scheme giving more detailed exam marks. This will give [...]
Unless we can imagine a better name soon, the work that Richard Millwood, Mark Johnson and I are undertaking for the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) at the University of Bolton will be branded as the IDIBL project. The website we are building is using the much loved Plone (version 3.0) which has come on [...]
