Simon Grant

29th Sept

Is there a good term for my specialist area of work for CETIS? I've been trying out "technology for learner support", but that doesn't fully seem to fit the bill. If I try to explain, reflecting on 10 years (as of this month) involvement with CETIS, might readers be able to help me?

Lorna M. Campbell

27th Sept

Yesterday I went along to one of the Social Media Week events that are taking place all over Glasgow this week. So while Sheila was on one side of the city presenting at the Education Online “Mini MOOC” session, I was on the other side listening to Ollie Bray talking about Social Media and New Technology in Education.

Sharon Perry

24th Sept

The JISC funded Pedestal for Progression project at Loughborough University has focussed on bringing together information from their in-house Co-Tutor dashboard and other systems to help tutors be pro-active in their response to “at risk” students.

Scott Wilson

20th Sept

PHP is, despite its huge popularity, one of only a handful of web programming tools I’ve never really used in anger. And thats because, basically, I’m a programming snob.

Phil Barker

20th Sept

I was asked last week to provide some good examples of embedded licences in OERs. I’m pleased to do that (with the proviso that this is just my personal opinion of “good”) since it makes a change from carping about how some of the outputs of the UKOER programme demonstrate a neglect of seemingly obvious points about self-description.

Martin Hawksey

19th Sept

importHTML is a fantastic formula you can use in Google Spreadsheets.

Sheila MacNeill

14th Sept

Yesterday I was part of a panel in the Big Data and Learning Analtyics Symposium at ALT-C. Simon Buckingham Schum, Rebecca Fergusson, Noami Jeffrey, Kevin Mayles and Richard Nurse the "crack team" from the OU gave a really useful overview of the range of work they are all undertaking in the OU.

Christina Smart

12th Sept

It sounds counter intuitive but that was one of the messages from the opening keynote at this year’s ALT conference by Eric Mazur Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University.

Martin Hawksey

12th Sept

The graph on the right is taken from a paper mentioned in Eric Mazur’s keynote from the first day of the ALT* Conference 2012.

Sheila MacNeill

11th Sept

As many of you will know it's the ALT- C 2012 conference this week, the UK's biggest learning technology conference. I'm going later in the week but today am taking advance of the live streaming of the key notes and invited speakers (thank you ALT for once again providing this service); and of course following the twitter back channel.