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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
This site is for school teachers but I think even lecturers in HE could find the information about using Twitter helpful.
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Does technological innovation have to come from within the sector? Claire Shaw hears from the current wave of edutech players with their roots firmly in higher education
I like this article not just because of the edutech angle but because it says, "[students] are taking the [learning] experience online themselves". Hurrah! Yes this is just what we are seeing students starting up their own Facebook groups etc. What this article is saying is that this activiety is the result of universities not providing the right kind of technology tools for students. Yes, that is fine for those students who will/can do this for themselves – don’t we owe it to the other 50% of students who need the university to provide guidance in the form of the tools it provides?
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Aimed at educators but with relevance to us all from EHub Supporter, Sue Beckingham of Sheffield Hallam University. The Employability Hub is a social learning community for helping…
Thank you to David Shindler for bringing this to my attention. A very useful slide show to use when explaining the relationship of digital literacy to employability.
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U-Now is The University of Nottingham’s collection of open educational materials that have been openly licenced for anyone to use. The materials range from complete modules to smaller-scale learning objectives and highlight a range of teaching and learning activities from across the University.
A great resource for OER from Nottingham. Why aren’t more universities doing this sort of thing? Any answers?
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Online training courses are meant to be convenient, cost-effective alternatives to seminars and other forms of training that usually put most people to
How very useful. This is just the advice I would give to anyone teaching, training or engaging online or using blended learning. Use the right tools, avoid too much content, keep the really important stuff to less than 5 minutes (even within a lecture), make sure your technology works, get the students to tell you what the best bits are and what other things they would have liked you to include (you then know what to chuck out).
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This report contains the findings of a study carried out by the Centre for Academic Practice & Learning Enhancement and Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards, at the University of Strathclyde. The study focuses on the involvement of the Library as an organizational unit, and of individual librarians and other information science specialists, in open educational resources (OER) initiatives. This research study contributes to the current Open Educational Resources Programme, an initiative by JISC and the HEA whose objective is to promote the creation, dissemination, access and use of OER. This programme represents a firm commitment by UK Higher Education institutions to the OER movement.
May be we ought to remember this August 2012 report when we are talking about Open Access. Although research is important and occupies our thoughts at the moment, Open Access is about a whole lot more than just research.
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Open access means that there are no barriers to the research, no paywalls: all research content is made freely and openly available, to anyone around the world. Rather than charging a subscription for people to read the research, researchers pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) at the point of publication.
If you want a quick summary of Open Access from the point of view of the Research Councils just watch this video. The video is produced by Springer but you don’t get the advert until the end 🙂
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With great pleasure and more relief I can now announce the availability of Into the wild – technology for open educational resources, a book of our reflections on the technology involved in three years of the UK OER Programmes.
Hurrah! Thanks Phil, may be now we will all start doing "real" OER. Well we can hope 🙂 It’s amazing just how much OER is shut off behind a corporate front or inside a VLE. May be Into the Wild will encourage people to put their fantastic and even not so fantastic stuff out in the wild.
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In this paper, Darrell West and Joshua Bleiberg highlight five success stories of innovations in education technology.
That’s better the other version was too long 🙂 Do read this paper, yes this is a USA paper and yes it is about teaching in school rather than HE but the points raised are of value to us here too.
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Don’t mind re-scooping this at all – some very easy to use and helpful tools here.
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