The winners of the 2015 Credo Reference Digital Award for Information Literacy are Chris Rowell and Andy Horton (Regent’s University London) for The Twelve Apps of Christmas. This engaging and entertaining open online course took place over 12 days in December 2014. On each of the twelve days a different app was introduced to the […] View Article
Leave a commentThis year the host city for the Open Education Conference (OER15) was Cardiff and its theme was ‘Mainstreaming Open Education’. Chaired by Haydn Blackey and Martin Weller there were over 100 sessions condensed into two action packed days. It was a very friendly welcoming conference of enthusiasts who have a ‘can do’ attitude: This was my […] View Article
Leave a commentAs part of Open Education Week 2015, Dave White and Donna Lanclos facilitated a Visitors & Residents workshop “Marvellous Mapping” for educators and researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway. Dave is the originator of the Visitors and Residents concept and Dave and Donna are on the research team that developed the related […] View Article
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Earlier in March, Jisc's Digifest event comprised 90 speakers across 85 sessions, This post offers the reflections of three of… View Article
Leave a commentThe LT Conference returned to London in January, showcasing a range of tech enterprises. Trends are obviously very subjective, but these were gleaned from the conference: The lexicons of story-telling and journalism are appearing more frequently in learning. The language is readily-understood by a wide audience (and accessible language is always preferred to impenetrable jargon […] View Article
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Members of Landex ‘Land based Colleges Aspiring to Excellence’ recently attended a Blended Learning CPD Event addressing ‘The Strategic Use… View Article
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The BETT Show comes around each January and entices all of us working in the education sector to play with… View Article
Leave a commentCritical thinking thrived at the 2014 ascilite annual conference (24th-26th November), held in Dunedin, New Zealand, with presentations interrogating claims on a number of themes. Shane Dawson (University of South Australia) in a thought-provoking keynote questioned the value being extracted from analytics software across the HE sector, viewing the technology as a blunt instrument in […] View Article
1 CommentEditor’s note: this article is one of a series of personal reviews of the 2014 ALT Annual Conference which provide different perspectives on the conference. I wasn’t able to attend the ALT Conference this year, but what with the faultless online coverage and following the back channel on twitter, I think I caught more of the […] View Article
Leave a commentEditor’s note: this article is one of a series of personal reviews of the 2014 ALT Annual Conference which provide different perspectives on the conference. This is the rule: ALT conferences must be themed, and the theme must be allusive, ideally a literary reference; and when it is set it is important to stick to it […] View Article
Leave a commentEditor’s note: this article is one of a series of personal reviews of the 2014 ALT Annual Conference which provide different perspectives on the conference. Early last month I attended the 2014 ALT Annual Conference. Last year’s conference was a bit of a personal highlight for me, but this year the team at ALT and all the […] View Article
Leave a commentThe first Student Social Media Showcase (SMSS) and the inaugural European Conference on Social Media 2014 (ECSM2014) were hosted 9th-11th July by the University of Brighton Business E-Learning Research Group and took place in the Huxley Building, Brighton. The two events brought together over 250 academics (from 35 countries), students, school children […] View Article
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