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Short thoughts
18:40 Hurrah, online va a mobile broadband dongle! # 18:43 @jclarey if one is being professional certainly one checks :) as one would for any public appearance – I’d use the webcam # 18:47 @shanitomorrow any news on CCC starting in Nottingham? # 19:16 @gpirie sorry I won’t see you
A new approach to assessment
Assessment is a key driver of student learning and at the heart of the student experience. From the student point of view, assessment defines the curriculum. Assessment can be an important route into engaging students in new ways of learning. At the online Learning Futures Festival in November from the
Technology-enhanced learning in the Teaching and Learning Research Project
Personalisation of learning involves using the responsive and adaptive capabilities of advanced digital technologies It’s all about inclusion – about improving the reach of education and lifelong learning to groups and individuals not well served traditionally. It promotes flexibility and productivity. What’s more important for managers and strategists, it enables
Workplace learning needs bespoke solutions
Tailor-made solutions to workplace learning better reflect the needs of the workforce in today’s companies. Recent research has shown that upskilling and learning in the workplace is vital if Britain is to compete with an increasingly talented workforce in emerging countries. Elearning can play a key role in this. Key
VLEs – a boon or a bust?
I was reading a “rant” from Steve Wheeler about VLEs and James Clay’s response to it. I agree that VLEs leave a lot to be desired. But until something better comes along – and it will! – they have certain advantages. Designed for learning, they keep everything in one place
Join us at our Digital Literacies Symposium
ELESIG – the Special Interest Group for those interested in Evaluating the Learner Experience of elearning is having one of its occasional face to face events on November 20th in Birmingham. here are the details: Impact of learner experience research – digital literacies Thursday, 20th November 2008 Evolution Suite, Longbridge
Top 10 etools for learning professionals
My Top 10 Tools list is now online at Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/helenwhitehead.html It’s fascinating reading the ‘final’ compiled version of the top 100 tools chosen by 223 learning professionals. Delicious social bookmarking comes top by a long way. It’s somewhat encouraging that several of
Online activities for action learning sets
We’ve been setting up some online spaces to support action learning sets for groups of businesspeople. These groups have some face to face meetings and the online space is to support these. In such cases we don’t need strictly defined e-tivities. Action learning is defined by the participants themselves. The
The greening of conferences – online conferences this autumn
Online conferences are BIG these days. Some organisations have been running virtual conferences for a while and others are just starting out, or experimenting with an online element to a face-to-face conference. Technology has moved on a lot and there are a variety of options for online conferences and webinars,