On the ALT Members JiscMail list Tim Smale (Keele University) recently asked: “I’m looking at providing some guidance to staff and students on the use of Google Drive (and other solutions). In particular I’m interested if anyone has guidance on what they consider safe and unsafe to store there. For example, do you allow the […] View Article
Leave a commentYesterday I attended our new series NetworkEDGE: The Future of Education online, because we live stream (and record) these things and therefore I could. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Downes inaugurate, and I watched, listened and tweeted along. Downes shared his utopian anti-institutional view of education with us and that’s the kind of thing I lap up. […] View Article
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Sheila MacNeill is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and the 2013 winner in the individual category of the… View Article
Leave a commentMOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – have been grabbing headlines and conference time for a year or two now. It’s the very large numbers that attract attention. But are MOOCs solving any real, global education problems? They are certainly not solving the problem of providing the 100,000,000 university places now needed by young people […] View Article
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Despite the fact that ‘track-changes’ is normally used in one-to-one editing and feedback (for example on draft theses, dissertations, reports… View Article
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“We broadly support open licences and OER and need a serious public debate on this issue.” ~Michael Russell, MSP This… View Article
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In my work as an educational technologist in Higher Education (and with academic/teaching experience in HE) I am more frequently… View Article
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Aaron Sloman is Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham. Here he reflects on… View Article
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It was in the spring of 2006 that I first encountered Terry Anderson’s Getting the Mix Right Again: An Updated… View Article
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Valentine’s Day this year was the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. It’s amazing how far the academic… View Article
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Systems record how students are using them in their log files. We can use this data to understand their behaviour… View Article
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There are many sophisticated ways to provide interactive content on the web; why would you consider publishing resources in MS… View Article
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