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What are Learning Styles? | Psychology Today - 0 views
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"You have probably heard of them - you fill in a questionnaire to be told that you a 'visual learner' or an 'auditory learner', a 'reflector' or a 'pragmatist', a 'diverger' or a 'converger'? But exactly what are Learning Styles? They are, unfortunately, one of the great myths in learning theory"
Free trials for note-taking app launched to aid pupils with additional needs - Innovate... - 0 views
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"Leaders in assistive technology Conversor have announced that their SEN-friendly Notetalker solutions are now available for purchase and downloading. Notetalker App, combined with a Universal microphone and cable kit for any smartphone or tablet, uses a simple user interface which allows students to record classes, with the added ability to tag important information with a bookmark or a text description. Photographs can be added to the recording as a visual reminder."
Want to raise the quality of teaching? Begin with academic freedom | Times Higher Educa... - 0 views
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"Politicians who want to improve the quality of teaching through increased competition may ironically simply end up with ever greater systems of centralised control. Following Hayek (the philosopher father of free market economics), I would say this is not the way to make the best of our teachers."
Graduate employability data no way to measure teaching quality | Times Higher Education - 0 views
The VLE isn't the problem, the sediment is | The Ed Techie - 0 views
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"At the ALT C conference I went to a few sessions where VLE discussion came up, most notably Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos's session "Are learning technologies fit for purpose?". They asked us to reflect on the main question in groups and nearly all of the discussions came back to complaints about the VLE. Lawrie picked on me to give the first response and I mentioned that the problem was not so much the technology but the "institutional sediment" that builds up around it. "
Four Traps ... | Higher Ed Beta | InsideHigherEd - 0 views
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"Routine and inertia too often rule the way that departments and institutions devise their curricula; the same goes for the ways individual faculty members teach and assess student learning."
Use Google+ Hangouts for Teaching « Google+ Insider's Guide - 0 views
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"Google+ Hangouts are proving to be a proficient platform for teaching and communicating in real time with others. If you're someone who creates instructional content online, you may want to consider using the platform for your next project".
elearnspace › Questions I'm no Longer Asking - 0 views
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Are you asking them?
Learning Through Digital Media » Beyond Friending: BuddyPress and the Social,... - 0 views
It's time for teaching to get an equal position with research | Higher Education Networ... - 0 views
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For some staff, teaching in British universities often takes second place to research. If we want to keep our reputation, this can't go on says Craig Mahoney
Why UK higher education institutions should invest in technology | Higher Education Net... - 0 views
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It can seem expensive, but even simple innovations can have a big impact on your institution, students and working life, argues JISC's Professor David Baker
Johnnie Moore's Weblog: Learning styles = astrology ? - 0 views
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Ruth Clark's book on Evidence Based Training Methods. It provides some excellent provocative thinking, especially around the whole industry that's arisen around the notion of learning styles.
TeachPaperless: A Paperless Survival Guide to Managing the Occasional Tech Snafu - 0 views
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Things go wrong. So it's always best to be prepared when they do.
BBC - dot.Rory: Becta: Does it deserve to die? - 0 views
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In the spending cuts unveiled by the coalition government this morning, one victim will have stood out for the IT community. British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the quango which promotes the use of technology in schools, is t
Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies: QR Codes and Libraries - 0 views
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Summary Of Ideas For Using QR Codes In Libraries:
Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning - Educational Research - 0 views
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"When, many years again pre-internet days, I was a student at Swansea University, it was always possible to buy an essay in a bar."
In Defense of Lecture « Computing Education Blog - 0 views
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"Lectures have a black eye on college campuses today. We're told that they are useless, and that they are ineffective with out "explicit constructionism." We're told to use active learning techniques in lecture, like clickers. I'm realizing that there's
Publish or post? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences - 0 views
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A new European-funded initiative is advocating an entirely new system of science publishing, in which scientists avoid the hassles of traditional peer review by taking a quietly radical step: post their results on their websites.
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