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Nigel Robertson

CIO interview: David Matthewman, CIO, Open University - 0 views

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    Head of OU IT talks about the changes he has wrought.
Nigel Robertson

Office vs Drive: Some thoughts - Betchablog - 0 views

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    Why Chris uses Google (and the 2 things he uses Word for)
Nigel Robertson

Teachers key to delivering digital skills | Jisc - 0 views

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    "The student digital experience tracker, a pilot scheme to provide first-hand insight into learners' expectations and views on technology in an education setting, showed that 72% of HE and 70% of FE and skills learners believe that when technology is used effectively by teaching staff it enhances their learning experience - giving credence to the argument that practitioners need to develop their own digital skills to deliver learning and teaching."
Nigel Robertson

The Changes and Challenges of Open Practice in the UK (panel discussion) - Cloudworks - 0 views

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    Summary of panel discussion on OER in HE at recent CAM12 conference
Nigel Robertson

elearnspace › Blackboard's identity crisis, Desire2Learn's optimism, and Inst... - 0 views

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    George on the LMS - and he has to backtrack on Moodle in the comments!
Nigel Robertson

Donald Clark Plan B: Bloom (1913-1999) one e-learning paper you must read plus his taxo... - 2 views

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    Clark looks at one of Blooms less known findings (as well as the taxonomy) where he compared the lecture, formative feedback lecture and one-to-one tuition.
Nigel Robertson

Iceland goes open source in a big way | memeburn - 0 views

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    "(Iceland) wants to take a number of government departments open source. According to project leader Tryggvi Björgvinsson, the migration project will involve the three biggest public institutions in Iceland: all of the ministries, the city of Reykjavik and the National Hospital. "These are setting a good migration example", he says."
Nigel Robertson

Pedagogical roles for audio in online learning - 0 views

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    Rationale, pedagogy and links for using audio in HE. Note elements of intimacy, reducing transactional distances.
Nigel Robertson

Megaupload | Kim Dotcom wants to swim and record... | Stuff.co.nz - 0 views

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    Bail relaxed for Kim Dotcom - he's now allowed to swim - like why wasn't he before?
Tracey Morgan

Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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    "Data visualization is a running theme of visual literacy here, and Manuel Lima has been one of its biggest advocates since 2005 when, shortly after graduating from the Parson School of Design, he launched VisualComplexity - an ambitious portal for the visualization of complex networks across a multitude of disciplines, from biology to history to the social web."
Nigel Robertson

#SMHE - the action on Twitter (with images, tweets) · InformaHigherEd · Storify - 0 views

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    The tweets from Social Media in HE 2012 storified.
Stephen Harlow

Some Thoughts on Teaching - 0 views

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    "Real teaching is not about passing on the 'the material', as if knowledge were some sort of mass-produced commodity that ships from Amazon. Real teaching is about conveying a way of thinking. How can a teacher convey a way of thinking when he doesn't genuinely think that way?"
Nigel Robertson

WRiSE - Report Writing - 0 views

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    Write Reports in Science & Engineering. A guide for HE students, desined at Sydney and NSW Unis.
Nigel Robertson

BYOD - Worst Idea of the 21st Century? : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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    Gary Stager on why BYOD is a bad idea. His reference point is K-12 and while not completely fitting the HE situation there are matches.
Stephen Harlow

Times Higher Education - Use of Turnitin software does not deter cheating, study finds - 0 views

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    "One explanation is that students who plagiarized did not have high confidence that the system would detect the plagiarism in their writing," he says. "A second explanation is that the students who plagiarized were, for lack of a better word, desperate." n=bugger all (via @Dakvid)
Stephen Harlow

At New Online University, Advertisers Will Underwrite Free Degrees - Wired Campus - The... - 0 views

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    "...students may be asked a question like 'Are you a runner?' when they log into the learning-management system. If a student checks 'yes,' he or she will thereafter see ads for a certain brand of running shoes on the home page."<--quick Troy write a plugin for Moodle!
Nigel Robertson

The Ultimate Higher Ed Band List | Registrarism - 1 views

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    Any kiwi HE bands to add?
Nigel Robertson

How (And Why) It's Time To Create Digital Student Portfolios - Edudemic - Edudemic - 1 views

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    Aimed at schools but points could be reworded for HE.
Nigel Robertson

Out of the blue, into the red? | Leader | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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    UK moving to an uncapped regime. This analysis suggests that huge pressure will descend on the lower echelons of HE. At what cost?
Nigel Robertson

Open Educational Resources and Open Access: Promise or Peril for Hi... - 0 views

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    OER and OA - what does it mean for HE? - Terry Anderson
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