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Research articles produced by EDEN

Formatting PDF documents

We spoke about needing a social media policy. It appears that many universities and organisations are much further down the line than we are. In this post I particularly liked the document (downloadable) from *June 9th, 2010: Social Media Best Practice for Law Schools - Recommendations for Staff use. Don't know how far we have got in creating a policy but we at least need some guidelines for student use.

Very useful report detailing the elearning requirements of businesses

Great set of resources from an online learning programme for researchers at Warwick

If you don't fancy reading the whole book, Grainne has done a good precis. If you do want to read it, it's with Stuart at the moment (please feel free to write in it) I like to collect thoughts on pages :)

Just a quick reminder about the value of good navigation

OpenSpires makes Oxford podcasts available as Open Content Resources (OER); content that is available for reuse and redistribution by third parties globally, provided that it is used in a non-commercial way and is attributed to its creator.

At our University, the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education has delivered a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses via flexible distance learning for many years. Distance learning can be a lonely experience for students who may feel isolated and unsupported. However e-learning provides an opportunity to use technology to motivate students to interact with each other and their tutors and work together towards common goals. If done properly, this provides distance learners specifically with a sense of learning within a community and therefore enables them to learn more effectively. Five years ago, the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education started using a virtual learning environment (VLE) to expand and develop our materials and provide a variety of resources to support our students. In the postgraduate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) course this was further developed by implementing several collaborative learning initiatives where students work together online. The purpose of this was to attempt to improve the student experience of distance learning. The aim of this review is to analyze the effectiveness of three online collaborative tools used in the postgraduate distance learning MRI course and make recommendations for the implementation of similar initiatives throughout health care education.

Shelly I thought this might be useful to your background

Free tools to help plan activities online

Take a look at this video shared by Dave Hopkins. It is really good and captures the basic usage of social media - great to show students!!!

Amusing video but gets the point across. You will need the subtitles though unless you can speak Norwegian

European Distance Educational Network - good source of research

Welcome to our first policy digest of 2012. This week we will be looking at our forthcoming schedule of events and what you will be able to watch on Policy Review TV over the coming weeks. Cambridge Assessment - The importance of being educated

This may be useful when considering BMS as potential collaborative partner

A possible learning design support tool to use with module developers? "We are working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (the Learning Designer) to scaffold teachers' decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. Through this iterative research-design process we hope to address the above issues and build the means by which the teaching community can collaborate further on how best to deploy TEL."