The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology Conference took place on 8 July 2015 at The Shard in London. This conference set out to explore the meaning of technology and data and its place in the world. It touched upon many ideas which are debated in learning technology circles all the time. As […] View Article
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Last week saw the thirteenth annual Academic Practice and Technology conference at the University of Greenwich. With over 40 presentations to… View Article
Leave a commentThe 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 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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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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