Skip to main content

Home/ Wcel_Team/ Group items tagged universities

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Nigel Robertson

Flashy university buildings: do they live up to the hype? | Education | The Guardian - 0 views

  •  
    Guardian article on flash uni buildings. Students want space for groupwork, computers, better temps and air.
Stephen Bright

On-Campus Impacts of MOOCs at Duke University (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

  •  
    How creating MOOCs has flowed back into changes in the on-campus classrooms
Nigel Robertson

Best Tertiary Websites - Universities - Education Directions - 0 views

  •  
    NZ uni websites review, focusing on social media, connections with stakeholders, and how discoverable this info is.
Nigel Robertson

Why free online lectures will destroy universities - unless they get their ac... - 3 views

  •  
    Opinion piece on the place of online lectures in the future of education.  Get your world class expert via YouTube, MIT, etc and use your time with students to really interact with them and the material.
Stephen Harlow

Navigating course prerequisites | University Affairs - 1 views

  •  
    "A universally frustrating experience for undergraduates is the struggle to determine the prerequisites they need to graduate in their chosen fields. But help is close at hand."
Nigel Robertson

Facebook | University of Waikato - 4 views

  •  
    We have a Facebook page!
Stephen Harlow

Media Zoo - University of Leicester - 1 views

  •  
    Another vision of the 'spare room': "The Media Zoo provides a supportive, experimental environment for University staff to facilitate transfer of understanding of the design of learning activities using learning technologies."
Nigel Robertson

eLearning at Universities: A Quality Assurance Free Zone? | Mark Smithers - 0 views

  •  
    More in the debate on quality of learning and elearning in unis. (Actually not much of a debate - most are in agreement that it's crap!)
Stephen Harlow

CSU System Shares E-book Pilot Results - 0 views

  •  
    "After piloting a digital textbook rental program in fall 2010, the California State University system learned a few lessons about how the e-books worked for students."
Nigel Robertson

100% of Colleges and Universities are Doing Social Media | .eduGuru - 0 views

  •  
    Increases in social media use in US unis & colleges. Data from 2007 to now.
Nigel Robertson

Blogging and trust in Universities | Mark Smithers - 0 views

  •  
    Excellent post by Mark Smithers capturing the difficulty I have with a corporate control attitude in HE.
Nigel Robertson

Access Copyright Admits That It's Holding Education Hostage Unless Universities Pay Up ... - 0 views

  •  
    Several Canadian unis duck out of the blanket copyright licensing scheme after fees are raised by 1300%
Stephen Harlow

RT @thomcochrane: @suebecks: Available now: a #guide to using #Twitter in university #r... - 1 views

  •  
    RT @thomcochrane: @suebecks: Available now: a #guide to using #Twitter in university #research, #teaching... http://t.co/zLTX3792 #yam
Nigel Robertson

Derek's Blog » UK Diary - Edgeless University - 0 views

  •  
    Wenmoth quotes Bradwell's report 'The Edgeless University', one we should look at since it deals with change the unis need to embrace.
Nigel Robertson

Google Apps lands another win with Westminster University - 1 views

  •  
    Seems Westminster have made Apps available to staff.
  •  
    Apps available for staff but not gmail.
Nigel Robertson

Microsoft Academic Search - University of Waikato - 1 views

  •  
    MS site allowing searching across academic domains.
Nigel Robertson

4 Universities Use Social Networks to Engage Community - 0 views

  •  
    Good examples of social media engagement. Not using social channels as a news feed but engaging with students.
Nigel Robertson

iPads reduce costs, improve communication for University of Adelaide | Computerworld Ne... - 1 views

  •  
    Adelaide science faculty gives all 1st year students an iPad and only uses electronic text books.  Have redesigned the curriculum  and getting very positive results. Book costs for students have dropped to 60% of what they were and the uni is looking to move entirely to free online resources.
« First ‹ Previous 81 - 100 of 397 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page