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
This initiative seeks to collect in one place a portable kit of resources that have proven useful in getting OCW projects off the ground at a variety of institutions.
UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education, ministers will say tomorrow, despite the failure of the UK e-University four years ago.
No matter what kind of community you are trying to create, grow or keep active; there are some basics that anybody can implement. Part of it is conflict resolution, part is having things to do and part is organization.
On this site, you will find a wealth of resources to help you better understand the Ancient Rome 3D layer: a project overview, Googlegram/FAQ, screenshots, video, and more are available here and can be used as you see fit.
Realising that the OU on iTunesU presence has its downside (specifically - having to use iTunes), you can now get hold of OU "enhanced podcasts" from the OU Podcasts (beta) site.
The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal t
Oxbridge is near the top in university rankings, but it's a different story on the web, reports John Gill
They have illustrious histories, multibillion-pound endowments and are likely to clean up in next week's research assessment exercise. But do the un
The launch of Google Map Maker, mapmaker.google.com, for 43 new countries and territories, including Argentina, Costa Rica, and Fiji. Map Maker now allows people to create complete maps for 164 countries across the world.
It's a new year, and the beginning of a new semester in school. Students who didn't do so hot last year have probably made a New Year resolution to improve their grades.
To help you all with the next semester, I've decided to make a list of extremely hel