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BBC NEWS | Education | Teachers face five-year licensing - 0 views

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    Teachers in England will need licences to practise which will have to be renewed every five years, under government plans. For lecturers too? What about Learning Technologists?
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Singularity University » Overview - 0 views

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    Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity's grand challenges.
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Online Video Lectures and Course Materials - Open Yale Courses - 0 views

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    Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
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Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : - 0 views

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    Web 2.0 and Other Educational Resources from Microsoft
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BBC NEWS | Education | Facebook 'cuts student drop-outs' - 0 views

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    Social networking websites such as Facebook are helping to reduce college drop-out rates, it is claimed.
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Tech-Ease! for Windows - 0 views

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    Quick answers to real classroom technology questions. An online service of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse.
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Jorum Deposit Options - 0 views

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    Users can search JorumOpen for open educational resources which use the Creative Commons, Version 2.0: UK England & Wales licence using the search tool below
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Jorum Home - 0 views

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    Jorum provides access to free learning and teaching resources, created and contributed by teaching staff from UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Jorum offers two collections - JorumOpen and JorumUK, containing a wide variety of resources, inclu
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JISC TechDis - Assistive Technologists - 0 views

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    The experience that Assistive Technologists build up in dealing with the use of technology in education is invaluable, but because all students and users are different and use the equipment or software in subtlely different ways there is always more to le
Chris Hall

Re.ViCa Online Handbook.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Throughout the last decade, numerous initiatives have been set up to experiment with the establishment of ICT-enhanced activities, under various frameworks and to varying degrees of success. The higher education area is a very complex world with a diverse
Chris Hall

Campus 'slackers' kicked into gear | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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    "Pushing the laziest student in class to work a little bit harder can be an infuriating task for lecturers. However, where one-to-one mentoring and encouraging words have failed, peer pressure might just work, according to a study on how to motivate so-called "shirkers"."
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TeachArchives.org - 0 views

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    "Welcome to a new, innovative way to teach in the archives! Based on an award-winning project at Brooklyn Historical Society, TeachArchives.org shares our teaching philosophy and findings with a global audience of instructors, administrators, librarians, archivists, and museum educators. Use this site to teach students ranging from middle school to graduate school."
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Learning Technologies: Student Response Systems (Part 1) - 0 views

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    "Many educational contexts now make use of student response devices - devices, which allow a student or group of students to send a response to a question back to a tutor in a classroom or lecture theatre. There is a wide array of devices and it can be very hard to choose which one you would like. This blog post is Part 1 of 2. In this post, I will look at the features that response systems can have. In the second part, I will look at some specific systems and highlight their best features. "
Chris Hall

Embrace Moocs or face decline, warns v-c | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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    ""It's Mooc or die", a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future."
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Dr Ben Goldacre: make teaching a truly evidence-based profession. - 0 views

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    Dr Ben Goldacre today set out how teachers in England have the chance to make teaching a truly evidence-based profession.
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College for all | McKinsey & Company - 0 views

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    Open online courses are changing higher education. Traditional colleges face dangers-and opportunities."
Chris Hall

Coursera Jumps the Shark | HESA - 0 views

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    "Remember when Coursera - the world's largest purveyor of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) - was going to disrupt higher education, and put hundreds if not thousands of public institutions out of business? I know it's hard to cast your mind back all of eighteen months, but try. Actually don't.  Because it's all over. Yesterday, Coursera did a weird strategy about-face by announcing that, rather than competing with public colleges, it's going to start competing with Blackboard instead"
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