One of the “hot topics” at the HEA Pathfinder workshop in York that I attended with the University of Leicester’s Adelie project was the definition of “embedding” – which was important to the description of what the Pathfinder pilots were asked to do. How can an institution measure embedding? What
I was preparing a “checklist” for e-moderators of online communities and thought I’d post some of the more important and skilled tasks that e-moderators need to do and to evaluate themselves on. So often we hear managers who believe that anyone can run a community – they think: “how difficult
Circlo: A tetris shooting gamehttp://www.andkon.com/arcade/tetris/circlo/ Flow in games – strangely addictive creature gamehttp://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/ And some interesting blogs/articles about using games in learning (as if that makes it OK…) Getting It Wrong: Slaying Myths About Video Games (Part 1) Learning in Video Games (a group blog) Futurelab handbook on Games and
The Open University have proved elearning is green (bit of an old study, but I would think computers are even more energy efficient now…) “A study by the Open University found that on average ‘distance/open learning courses used 90% less energy consumption and produced 90% fewer CO2 emissions than the
The University of Leicester is having a Big Green Week from October 15-19 and various events are taking place. In another environmentally friendly initiative, soon all our litter bins will be removed from our offices and we will have to walk to the nearest recycling bin. (May I say that
Having just been interviewed about mobile learning for the new WolF project, I thought I’d jot down some of my thoughts! Good examples of mobile learning: There are several good examples of podcasting in the IMPALA project Students doing work-based learning and work placements benefit from mobile learning in a
Here are some issues that have been mentioned to me (by academic staff) about integrating Web 2.0 technologies into institutional VLEs, and how they might be overcome. Institutional IT policy can be a barrier – you don’t know what’s available.Fear of “what people will say” How to cope with the
Here’s an interesting article on “the wiki way” from the Guardian. “Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work. He tells Oliver Burkeman how everything from gold mining
Season of Inspiration online writing course There are still some spaces left on our latest online writing course Season of Inspiration 9-week online writing course. Starts 8th October 2007 for 9 weeks. Join us in making the most of seasonal colours and scents, metaphors of the season, place and time
This is a 2D barcode of the URL of the ELKS community. Apparently these barcodes are all the range in Japan where people use their web-enabled mobile phones to read them and then surf to the URL. They are used, e.g., on a poster for a radio station to encourage