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The Equality Challenge Unit supports the higher education sector in its mission to realise the potential of all staff and students whatever their race, gender, disabilty, sexual orientation, religion or age, to the benefit of these individuals, higher education institutions and society.

This journal offers an opportunity for those involved in University learning and teaching to disseminate their practice. It aims to publish accounts of scholarly practice that report on small-scale practitioner research and case studies of practice that involve reflection, critique, implications for future practice and are informed by relevant literature, with a focus on enhancement of student learning. This publication thus offers a forum to develop and share scholarly informed practice in Higher Education through either works in progress or more detailed accounts of scholarly practice.

The focus of iPad Academy is the iPad in higher education. The primary audience is the professionals who work there, the faculty and staff who want to know more about using the iPad in teaching, learning and professional development. This site is for educators and trainers who want to improve their own iPad knowledge and skills, and in doing so, help colleagues, coworkers and students do the same.

Research into The Challenges, Usage and Benefits of Social Media within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has recently been carried out by Jadu. The findings represent feedback from 60 respondents across the UK, from 44 HEIs in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Rey Junco, a college professor and researcher who studies how social media use affects college students. I'm particularly interested in using quantitative methods to assess the effects of social media on student development, engagement, and success. Social Media in Higher Education is a place where I'll blog about the research I'm conducting and provide commentary on using technology in educationally-relevant ways.

ProfHacker delivers tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education

This blog focuses on teaching, learning, and journalism education - with a focus on higher education (ie at university level). These themes reflect my work as a journalism lecturer at City University in London, and my research interests in these areas, including the scholarship of teaching and learning of journalism.

Learning Development is a field of practice concerned with how students learn and how they make sense of academic conventions. JLDHE is published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE).

How to teach contemporary learners who refuse to be pruned into "nice shapes" like some bonsai tree? What can social media bring to education? Who will be the first to excel in converting social networks into education networks - students or teachers?

Teaching is not the be-all and end-all of higher education but it does make the single biggest contribution to the student learning experience and student success. The way institutions use their resources make the biggest difference to educational outcomes. He picks out class size, the level of student effort and engagement, who does the teaching, and quality of feedback to students on their work as the significant and valid process indicators

This paper suggests there is benefit in moving from andragogy towards truly self-determined learning. The concept of truly self-determined learning, called heutagogy, builds on humanistic theory and approaches to learning described in the 1950s. It is suggested that heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability. A number of implications of heutagogy for higher education and vocational education are discussed.

OCUFA's journal of higher education

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Auricle has existed in one form or another since the early 1980s. It first started life as a newsletter prepared on what was then the innovative Acorn/BBC microcomputer and printed using a humble dot matrix computer. This blog version of Auricle was launched in January 2004. It was one of the first UK Higher Education blogs addressing issues relating to the use (and sometimes abuse) of learning technologies. It was originally a multi-author blog and was previously hosted by the University of Bath before moving to the permanent auricle.org domain. It has been curated and contributed to since its inception by Derek Morrison.

Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education Section 3: Disabled students - February 2010

John Martin is the principal consultant and technology architect for White Mountain Technology Services. His passion for teaching and learning is borne out of his lifelong love of learning and his desire to share knowledge with others. He also serves as Coordinator of Learning Technologies for Plymouth State University where he focuses on online and socio-collaborative learning tools for students and faculty.

This site lists Web 2.0 websites and webtools have potential for use college and university teaching.

This blog represents my thoughts/critiques on a variety of topics. Higher Education, Social Justice, and Technology are topics that I blog about most frequently.

A hashtag for the head: v-c tweets to keep in touch