One of the biggest challenges for academics seeking to engage students via open, independent, student-managed spaces particularly blogs, is how to aggregate and manage contributions for feedback and assessment purposes. Mike Bogle and I have been following the progress of David Jones’ BIM ; an activity module for Moodle (v1.9 – BIM will be ported [...]
EduFeedr: free and unfettered
November 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Issues, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Tools & applications
Tags:aggregation·blogging·blogs·edufeedr
Gartner’s top 10
November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Tools & applications, Trends
Following on from the previous post, Gartner’s top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for organizations in 2011 may also be of interest. ‘Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential [...]
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2010 ANZ Horizon Report
November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Tools & applications, Trends
The Horizon Report: 2010 Australia-New Zealand Edition is now available online. The New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project is an ongoing research project that aims to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry within higher education around the globe over a five-year time period. The Horizon [...]
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ECAR study of undergrad. students & IT
October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Trends
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 is now available online. Since 2004, the annual study has asked undergraduate students ‘about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world’. Excerpt from the Key Findings conclusion: ‘Our study suggests that mobile computing is on the [...]
Post-school changes
October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Policy
Thank you to AUSTAFE, speakers and Sydney Institute of TAFE for making available recordings from the recent national AUSTAFE conference. Of particular interest to us in Higher Education were the keynotes by Kaye Schofield – Regulation, risk and quality in the VET sector, and Leesa Wheelahan – Will Higher Education in TAFE Lead to Sectoral [...]
Tags:cross-sector·policy·tafe·teqsa·VET
Changing education paradigms
October 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Issues, Learning & teaching, Opinion
This animate from the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
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Top 100 tools for learning in 2010
October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Resources, Tools & applications, Trends
Thank you to Jane Hart for her Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list. The list is the result of input from 545 people worldwide who shared their top tools. Top100 Tools for Learning 2010 View more presentations from Jane Hart.
Tags:Resources·technology·tools
Mobilizing learning
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Events
MobilizeThis is a free annual event – both face to face and online – that ‘brings together those pursuing the active use of mobile technologies and associated digital literacy in their daily lives, teaching and work related duties’. Visit the wiki for a spot of history. The 2010 theme is ‘Exploring the role of creative [...]
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Wikispaces tip: page includes
October 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Tools & applications
A common complaint about wikis is the inability to handle multiple single page edits at one time.Where a single page needs to be constructed by multiple people in the same timeframe an option has always been to split the content into separate pages and then gather it together again. I had overlooked the new Wikispaces [...]
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What’s in a book?
October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion, Resources, Tools & applications, Trends
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. Norman Cousins There was some interesting discussion last week at the Strategic Technology Summit in Brisbane around e-books. Their position in the realm of emerging technologies, we decided, was very much reliant on our [...]
Tags:book·ebooks·interactivity·Resources
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