Taking an idea about how to engage the wider learning technology community in exploring how and where we work is… 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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This blog post appeared first on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, LSHTM elearning blog http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/elearning/ Joanne is an… View Article
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San Diego is not just famous for being the location for Top Gun but also the annual CSUN International Technology… View Article
1 CommentNewcastle upon Tyne’s Centre for Life was the venue for the fifth annual conference on Open Education OER14, which took place in April. Two university students provided a superb welcome to delegates and Catherine Ngugi then provided a stirring keynote presentation which set the tone for the conference. As Project Director for OER Africa she […] View Article
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Literacy in the Digital University: Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship, and Technology Edited by Robin Goodfellow and Mary R. Lea… View Article
1 CommentReport from a Centre for Distance Education seminar, University of London, 13 Jan 2014 The University of London’s (UoL) Centre for Distance Education (CDE) provides thought-provoking lunchtime seminars on topics of interest to learning technology practitioners and staff who teach or administer online courses. A recent well-attended seminar on the practicalities of Massive Open Online […] View Article
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