An interesting article in the SMH (from The Age) this week – Podcasts and wikis turn cafes into lecture halls -comments on the outcomes of nationwide survey of 2422 first-year students by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. The Centre’s Director, Richard James, is quoted as saying that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'change'
Good teachers will always attract a crowd
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Debates, Issues, Learning & teaching, Research, Trends
The death of education and the dawn of learning
January 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Trends
Source: SchoolTube
A Harvard education. . . for free
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Resources, Trends
Education, and access to the best academic brains in the world, is changing. We can now access courses and classes in almost any field of study for free and online. While that participation remains relatively passive to date (accessing recordings) I’m confident that will change, as will the capability to mix and match a globally [...]
Recap of the Sydney Educators Network Meeting
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, SENG, Syndicated Post
In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to [...]
Tags:blogs·change·creative commons·Digital Culture & the Internet·Education·Educational Technology·Educational Technology & eLearning·innovation·LMS·moodle·networks·notes·open source·openness·policy·telt·UNSW·wikis
Missing the boat … or jumping ship?
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Debates, Issues, Networked learning, Opinion
@etalbert pointed to an interesting post from Twitter yesterday that resonated with my current thoughts around enterprise vs cloud hosted applications. In his [not so] ‘Incredibly Dull’ blog Andrew Gent asks why we cannot replicate the level of participation that exists across social media and social networking sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter [...]
Tags:change·cloudbased·creepytreehouse·culture·facebook·IP·socialmedia·socialnetworking·Twitter
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