Wcel_Team

Normally a good conference and only UK50 pounds.

Java applets for statistics

The 2009 reports on paper completion rates across NZ tertiary.

A UK FE college brings in graded standards to improve the quality of its courses.  Based in Moodle and uses some automated system. 

"Writing the future: genres, professions and texts" * moving towards learning outcomes: curriculum design, teaching methodology, materials, feedback & dialogue * evaluating & advancing approaches to teaching writing * the path from teaching or researching to presenting and publishing * the creative writing continuum * the critical analysis/critical thinking continuum"

thought you'z might be interested in this..

Lots of short videos on using a wide range of online technologies in teaching.

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.

"TRADITIONAL textbooks will be put on the endangered list next year as the University of Adelaide's Faculty of Science becomes the first tertiary institution to embrace a new approach to online learning." Ahh you need an iPad to do elearning in science, that's the problem.

Go Apple - The University of Adelaide intends to replace undergraduate science textbooks with iPad versions from next year onwards.

"The $139 Kindle is a game changer. 2011 will be the year that the traditional paper coursepack (finally) disappears, to be replaced by a default digital version with the option to print on demand. And if things go right, the Kindle should be the dominant coursepack delivery platform."

Great site on how to move data in and out of Google products.

Lots and lots of tools, many of which you won't have heard of!

"The Research Communications Strategy work is a JISC funded activity to investigate and coordinate many of the emerging themes, ideas and developments in the field of research communications at a strategic level."

Caroline Haythornthwaite, Richard Andrews, Michelle M. Kazmer, Bertram C. Bruce, Rae-Anne Montague, Christina Preston. 2007. - Interesting article and I we should look at some of these carefully.  Also some other good stuff in the journal.

An interesting add-on for Google Apps that allows some overview and admin to be done for your students.

"Shibley talked about how the online classroom differs from the traditional face-to-face classroom, and suggested strategies for capitalizing on those differences to improve student learning."

"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."["

Helen Barrett's site on using Google Apps as an eportfolio

Pepperdine Uni has managed access to Google Apps, Yammer, Elluminate, VoiceThread and more to create their online learning environment. This video gives a run down of the features.