#rhizo15 was a six week CMOOC in May 2015. Facilitator Dave Cormier reflects on how it operates as a community… View Article
Last week saw the thirteenth annual Academic Practice and Technology conference at the University of Greenwich. With over 40 presentations to… View Article
On 24 April 2015 forty educators from 19 institutions discussed key issues in MOOC design and implementation at a one-day… View Article
This book is arranged as a set of case studies focusing on ‘specialised educational technologies; particular groups of learners; and… View Article
A joint meeting of the ALT M25 Learning Technology Group (M25 LTG) and the University of London’s Centre for Distance… View Article
The National Star College made a trial of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – drone – with young adults with… View Article
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
This 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
As 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
Earlier in March, Jisc's Digifest event comprised 90 speakers across 85 sessions, This post offers the reflections of three of… View Article
The 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
Members of Landex ‘Land based Colleges Aspiring to Excellence’ recently attended a Blended Learning CPD Event addressing ‘The Strategic Use… View Article
