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 'lectures'
Good teachers will always attract a crowd
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Debates, Issues, Learning & teaching, Research, Trends
100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Networked learning, Resources
Thanks to Mark Smithers from RMIT for pointing to this great list of publicly available science and technology lectures. And thank you to those lecturers / experts for sharing their work. It’s a big step to publish content to the open web but it comes with a wide range of benefits including: engagement with a [...]
Tags:itunesu·lectures·openeducation·podcasting·science·youtube
Is Web 2.0 getting in the way of learning?
April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Debates, Learning & teaching, Networked learning
I came across a very interesting and robust debate in a post – Web 2.0 Classrooms Versus Learning? – on The Wired Campus from earlier this month. The ensuing debate originated from a session “Building the Classroom of the Future: From iTunes to Twitter” at the Chronicle Technology forum where ‘some in the audience seemed unconvinced [...]
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