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Edinburgh report on learning spaces

Inspired to bookmark this from the grad attributes consultation in which one group had two members who were engaging in 'destructive group behaviours' (brought onto the straight and narrow eventually by a skilled facilitator) ... I have heard it suggested that if groups are being derailed by dominating or digressing types, it can be useful for the whole group to sit down and consider what kind of group member they are in order to limit their unhelpful behaviours and get the group working well again.

I missed out on the session today so I'm not sure of the context of this, I can imagine though! As an aside...this is a very interesting web site all round...I've just been watching a presentation on "How people learn" and it's interesting from the point of view of the subject matter and from the perspective of how the material has been made available. I know Giles is working hard trying to put together videos of some of our own academics talking about teaching and I look forward to seeing them!

Collects videos from universities

Have you seen the "Dim the lights" feature on the video player? How camp is that? It's the usual suspects on here...Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT...wonder if anyone outside the States is going to partner with them. It's got an interesting "Playlist" feature, which isn't your own playlist but a playlist compiled by an "editor" which can feature videos from across different institutions. Quite neat.

Combined with Academic Earth, iTunesU and other online courses (e.g. list on the Open culture site: http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html) it is getting easier to find good lectures/courses. I wonder how this will play out in the end - will the 'best' lectures get used by students at other universities, even formally as part of the recommended 'reading'?

Netvibes enables you to pull together various RSS feeds and other sources of information - you can now create multiple homepages - could be very useful, might use it for PGCAP

As at www.netvibes.com/academic-practice -what do you think?

This is a great post and it's great that it comes from an academic. In our sessions we do often get bogged down in the "but it's never as good as face to face" debates. I think it's partially because some people can only see e-learning as being all or nothing i.e. your course is online or it's not rather than considering areas of their teaching that might benefit from a bit of e.

Elearning in liberal arts in US