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Entries from September 2009

Martin Bean’s ALT-C talk

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments

One of the highlights of ALT-C this year.

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Tags: Innovation · Learning · Open Source · Technology · Transformation · Web 2.0 · change · changing culture

Top 10 worst teaching mistakes

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments

One of the characteristics of HE teaching is that lecturers tend to teach in the way they were taught when they were undergraduates.  So if they were taught by inspirational teachers who saw the value of teaching, they are more likely to focus on inspiring their own students. If they were taught by lecturers who [...]

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Tags: Learning · teaching

Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

September 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Billed as “a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities”, this handbook written by George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger at the University of Manitoba,  is a lot more than this. It starts from the premise that Higher Education, whether individual institutions know it or not, is in the midst [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Transformation · Web 2.0 · change · changing culture · connectivity · social · teaching · tools · wiki · wikipedia