UK universities should take online lead:
“UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education, ministers will say tomorrow, despite the failure of the UK e-University four years ago.
The universities secretary, John Denham, is likely to call not for a revival of the UKeU, which collapsed in 2004, but to develop a “global [...]
Rather than fund a whole army of ‘Plagiarism Consultants’ and associated conferences why not re-engineer towards authentic forms of assessment – deal with the root of the problem rather than tinker with the flawed approach of the essay!
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Universities review plagiarism policies to catch Facebook cheats:
Universities are reviewing their plagiarism policies to clamp down on students [...]
Should e-learning policies be written to empower staff and students to abandon institutional provision?
Two weeks into the semester proper the 7 student researchers recruited for the first cohort are all engaging with the first module.
Forced to work outside of the UoB learning platforms (administrative issues), we have concentrated our communications around our Wordpress.com site and [...]
Chapter 2, Understanding the Curriculum in Engaging the Curriculum in Higher Education (2005, Barnett and Coate) is a useful starting point for considering curriculum design in HE.
This is complex area, and the slide below summarises seven notions of what might influence the development of curricula. Arguably an eigth dimension could now be added in [...]
A bit of a déjà vu feeling with this one. It is a racing certainty that institutions like mine will have to increasingly meet the needs of students who are not the ‘traditional’ 18 year undergraduate. They will want to study increasing amounts of CPD (short courses), will study entirely online and won’t [...]
I started this Pattern Language project last February with Ian Tindal and Richard Millwood and have been making intermittent progress since then. It is based upon the Ultraversity project and aims to capture the key elements of the approach developed for a degree programme based on action research methodology supported entirely through online communities [...]
I am playing around with dipity recommended by Sam as part of a data collection exercise for Bolton’s Co-educate initiative a project that I am managing, one of 12 Jisc funded Curriculum Design Projects.
One of the things we want to do is to run a series of focus groups both face-to-face and online to [...]
The London Pedagogy Planner is intended as “a collaborative online planning and design tool that supports lecturers in developing, analysing and sharing learning designs.” – arguably an area that requires some serious attention. However, as it stands I would be surprised if any teachers actually use it. On downloading and unzipping the compressed [...]
I just downloaded “Google Gears, an open source browser extension that adds offline functionality directly to the browser.” Ate the initial synchronisation which takes a few seconds if you have a lot of docs, the offline use of Google Docs is exactly the same as online, with the exception that data is stored locally [...]
The newly validated Masters in Learning with Technology at University of Bolton, Institute for Educational Cybernetics – recognised globally through its long-running Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS) are recruiting for new students (researchers).
When I lead the Ultraversity project at Anglia Ruskin University and in particular the development of the highly successful BA, [...]
Interdiciplinary, Inquiry-based Learning Project
Coeducate project
