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Article in the Guardian Education about why students find lectures boring. Unsurprisingly, PowerPoint is mentioned as a factor although reading further it's the usual story of the inappropriate use of PowerPoint rather than the existance of Powerpoint itself. I went to some extremely tedious lectures during my degree...it is possible to bore with a blackboard too! I would be interested in seeing more details of the types of lecture that students actually *like*!

Actually, it's just struck me...we have these awards where students nominate staff. We get a lot of nominations. What is it that students actually *like* about what staff are doing?

David produced a 'tag cloud' of the words used in their nominations.

At last, I found this report...now I have to read it.

This report is the result of "an independent inquiry into the strategic and policy implications for higher education of the experience and expectations of learners in the light of their increasing use of the newest technologies"

Article describing how the decreasing amount of contact between academics and students is damaging UK higher education.

Design-based research in Physics education paper

Good short summary

A reminder of the current rate of change

Video marking at the University of Westminster