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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 about what, [...]
A curmudgeonly and quite frankly ridiculous letter from Steve Bennett of Anglia Ruskin University sent to Merlin John speaks volumes:^) “On Wednesday 29 August 2007 – 13:29:48 | by Merlin John Anglia Ruskin University wants you to know that its Ultralab learning technology research unit has not closed, and that any inaccurate reference to its [...]
This is an excellent Breeze presentation by Ormond Simpson of the OU for anyone interested in HE retention issues. If the financial discussion isn’t of interest, skip onto slide 23. Concluding this Breeze presentation Ormand suggests that there are two kinds of staff in universities: 1. ‘Survivalists’ – student progress is ultimately about the survival [...]
Yesterday was my first day at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) where I am now employed as a Reader in Inquiry-base Learning. IEC is an evolution of Jisc/CETIS and also pulls together a number of other European an UK funded projects. Richard Millwood joins the IEC on a part time basis and along with [...]
This BBC report on Gordon Brown’s focus for secondary education explains… England’s secondary curriculum is being overhauled to “focus on getting the basics right”, the government says.” Subjects such as personal finance and cookery are likely to be included – plus languages like Mandarin and Urdu. Anne Kiem, a commentator from the Institute of Financial [...]
