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"Lecturers with formal teaching qualifications are valued by students far more highly than those who are active researchers, says a major survey that is likely to reopen the debate over the need for compulsory teacher training."

"This infokit explores gamification and its application to the field of education, learning and teaching. It is written for instructors such as lecturers and teachers, and is also of interest to learning system developers, education technology organisations, metadata specialists, librarians, and anyone concerned with effective learning either within, or outwith, curriculum requirements"

If any of the 70 undergraduates in Prof. Bill White's "Organizational Behavior" course here at Northwestern University are late for class, or not paying attention, he will know without having to scan the lecture hall.

Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user in

Academics cannot agree on what constitutes plagiarism, according to new research. A study by Diane Pecorari, senior lecturer in the School of Education at Malardalen University, Sweden, asked a sample of scholars to assess five plagiarised texts. It ident

The headline on the YouTube video clip of Karl Walling's lecture in May says simply: US Naval War College Professor Advocates Rape. As a result of some of the comments in the clip, the Naval War College placed Walling, a professor of strategy and policy,

The Government has confirmed that it is to launch an official annual university league table, using measures such as students' personal feedback on their lecturers via the website Twitter.

Students campaigning to raise the status of teaching at a Scottish university have rewarded the institution's most inspiring lecturers at their own awards ceremony this week.

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?

NoNotes.com is a transcription service for students. Students can record lectures while paying more attention in class, then upload their recording to be transcribed by NoNotes.

British universities have been encouraged to embrace the concept of the "celebrity academic" and follow in the footsteps of their "shamelessly" self-promoting peers in North America. Chris Brauer, lecturer in online journalism at City University London, s

The university system is failing staff who want to specialise in teaching, and must develop "more robust" criteria for recruiting and promoting lecturers for their contribution to students' learning

The blog of a Clinical Lecturer in Cardifff University

"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"."

"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. "

"Since 2006, academics at the University of Surrey have been using a 'clicker' based Electronic Voting System (EVS) to engage students and promote interaction in their classrooms. Although the system has served the University well its reliance on proprietary hardware has limited wider adoption. An issue for students was the need to book clickers out from library services and carry additional electronic devices around (not to mention the prospect of incurring a fine if they lost them). For staff, getting the USB 'dongles' (receivers) to pick up the signal from the clickers at the beginning of the lecture was a concern. The time and resources required to manage and distribute clickers and dongles were a further consideration, as were long-term maintenance costs for the institution."

Universities have been warned not to assume that "digital native" students will embrace all e-learning initiatives, or indeed prefer them to traditional forms of education.

MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 600 videos

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.

More free content,this time from Slovenia. How far behind are we? If iTunesU is a risk for some, will we get left behind?