The story of the frustrated student is the subject of a short video produced by students at Manchester Metropolitan University. The university is looking into alternative ways to communicate with students, specifically an SMS service in which messages are sent directly to students’ mobile phones. The system is incredibly simple: staff post a message to the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), and if the message is urgent, the staff member begins the message with the keyword ‘urgent’. The next 160 characters are then sent as an SMS. It’s an opt-in system which students value - not least because they are more likely to receive the messages if they go straight to their mobile device.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. - Marshall McLuhan

Education Theories on Learning beta an informal guide for the engineering education scholar by Jenni Case

teachingcommons Workshop: An insider’s guide to the NSS and other surveys

The Fourth Symposium on Social Learning Space: Learning Outside the Square [c] This one-day event will take place on Monday 6 April 2009 at Oxford Brookes University's Gipsy Lane Campus in Headington, Oxford, and will showcase the Reinvention Centre space located there.

Emerging Technologies for Learning Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

NGTiP09 Portfolio typology further to Flourish Eportfolio needs to be discussed in respect of at least four dimensions:  1 Process - collection, selection, reflection, presentation  2 Tools and artefacts: - portfolio: items, systems, presentations (CV, assessed piece of work, etc)  3 Areas of application: - PDP, CPD, PDR, competency assessment, personal reflection  4 Cultures of use: - Disciplines, educational sector, professional bodies, learner preference, maturity, aptitude, attitude  Eportfolio processes are done with tools to produce artefacts for particular purposes. The tool and its habit of use has an effect on the shape of the artefact that it produces. The culture of the site of application determines the habit of use of the tool: there is a "way things are done 'round here."  One size won't fit all. Comments [0]