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 wish to [...]
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 of [...]
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 file users [...]
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 and [...]
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 [...]
Have a look at the page below, when you get there it will take a few seconds to orientate yourself. Therapeutic, hypnotic, mesmerising or plain old depressing – take your pick!
Try this out – send yourself a mail message inviting you to a meeting. In the body of message in the middle of some text include the meeting time and date something like ‘Thursday 12th February 12pm – 2pm. On receipt of the message you will find that Mac Mail recognises the pattern as one [...]
Estelle Morris: Education should not be based on untested theories: Estelle Morris, the chairwoman of the strategy board of the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York, explains the ethos behind it. (Via Education Guardian). I remember attending an event at which Marilyn Leask (then head of Effective Practice and Research and Dissemination [...]
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. [...]
