Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching

The OSTRICH repository of Open Educational Resources (OERs) contains a range of learning and teaching materials that have been made available by the Universities of Bath and Derby as part of the OSTRICH project.

This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone

While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. How

The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age (September 2011). Augmenting the Emerging Practice guide, this infoKit is a practical guide

"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".

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). For further details follow the lin

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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.

"Your target audience is not the same.Learn who they really are using this simple technique."

The July 2011 issue of the IEEE Learning Technology newsletter

Lots of really interesting and useful videos on how to teach online

eBook reader for phone tablet and web browser

Ideas for technology project with students

Journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest December 2008 vol. 9 no. 3 105-119 Harold Pashler,1 Mark McDaniel,2 Doug Rohrer,3 and Robert Bjork4 1University of California, San Diego, 2Washington University in St. Louis, 3University of South Fl

While social networking site Facebook was created to help people connect with their friends, increasing research in the effect of social media on human interaction is painting a different picture - one that features the development of antisocial behavior,

Instead of sermonising about the need for more contact hours, ministers should stop infantilising students and listen to what they actually want, argues Paul Ramsden

This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that should count

As Michel Bauwens reported on this blog in April this year, Google has steered the development of the Android operating system into a direction that is less and less open, to the point where Android should no longer be considered open source Enter Mozilla