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A revised approach to HEFCE's strategy for e-learning, 2009

A post from Tim Hunt about plagiarism in general and OUs policies for coping with it, and looking at the problem that some folks thing a technological solution is all thats required

A post from Tim Hunt about plagiarism in general and OUs policies for coping with it, and looking at the problem that some folks thing a technological solution is all thats required

" In this article we provide a compact summary of two courses with innovative curricula integrating (1) Web 2.0 as the course subject, and (2) Web 2.0 as tools to support teaching/learning. We particularly focus on pedagogical approaches, applied methodologies and evaluation outcomes, indicating achieved impacts and possible ways to transform practice in higher education"

"This article employs a mixed-method approach to examine the outcomes produced by using Twitter in a large-lecture course as a means to assess the pedagogical impact and potential of Twitter's contribution to large-lecture course dynamics."

Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter machines will soon outrun all human capabilities.

Design thinking (or an agile approach)

"series of simple, user-friendly reflective tools that promote a creative and effective approach to the curriculum design process"

Some of the assumptions and approaches to open science.

Interesting. "We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age."

AMP tool - assessing mooc pedagogies - based on a 1998 educational software pedagogy tool by Tom Reeves

Another case study of increasing teacher engagement with online teaching through a graded 'awards' system.  Going for positive reinforcement rather than a compliance model while still suggesting that there should be a minimum standard.

This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area and focuses on: Changing people and culture.Working with existing institutional structures to influence organisational change.Embedding or aligning with strategies, processes, systems, initiatives and services.Creating usable tools and resources (as part of project outputs) to meet stakeholder needs.Developing commercial and open approaches to sustaining and embedding innovation.

A series of tools that can be used to support reflection, with a brief discussion of the process, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Some interesting things to make sure you aren't 'conned' into paying more! 50 scientifically proven ways constitute 50 chapters of the book, longest of which take 7 pages. The authors take the position that persuasion is a science, not art, hence with the right approach anybody can become the master in the skill of persuasion. So, what are the 50 ways?

Collaborative approaches to the management of elearning - A Jisc and Hefce project.

Framing Digital Literacy as conversation. Not stunning but worth adding to the lists.