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We probably shouldn't be unduly concerned with QM's apparent lack of progress in the Web2.0 area....yet....

Article in the Guardian education about HE's use of Web2.0 technologies. It's driven by the publication of a report by Sir David Melville but highly annoyingly does not provide any reference for the report itself....I have managed to track it down....see the "Higher Education in a Web2.0 World" bookmark!

The main interesting thing here is that LSU had a public consultation for deciding on their CMS, thus there is much more information available than normal on how the decision was reached.

The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. Founded in 1967, it now houses several thousand datasets of interest to a wide range of researchers and provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, learning and teaching. UKDA is a designated Place of Deposit by The National Archives allowing it to ingest and preserve public records. UKDA is based at the University of Essex in Colchester.

New publication - can be downloaded - we will get some paper copies

Report from DEMOS on why universities need to use technology

How to add a button to your website to let people easily add an event (or all your events) from your public google calendar to their own google calendar.

Could be useful for Learning Institute individual events and CILT/PGCAP whole calendars.

Briefing paper and video case studies of UK learning spaces

PhD study Trends and profiles, 1996-97 to 2004-05

This seems particularly pertinent given all the recent activity in College around the 'Student Experience'. The lastest version of JISC Inform talks about this and this appears to be the launch of their "Student Experiences of Technology" campaign which is bound to yield something useful.

Guardian education supplement examining technology in higher education, particularly so called Web2.0 technologies and examining the student perspective.

This is a really good example of a pretty light touch ePortfolio 'system'. It's actually not an ePortfolio system at all!

I think this is a good example of not only a light-touch approach to ePortfolios but also a more enlightened approach to web publishing in general.

Yes - and nice to see their blogs being used - was looking at some PhD students portfolio's. (Warwick gave all students blogs a couple of years ago risky but looks as if it is paying off, nice blot software used). Raises the issue about public access - but I guess we are getting more relaxed about that?

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"

HEFCE consultation on the REF.

Good Practices for Learning 2.0: Promoting Inclusion. An In-depth Study of Eight Learning 2.0 Cases

Higher student evaluation does not indicate more learning. Important for critique of TEF

Useful link to his publicatons