The midden

This is a video of my presentation to the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber on June 10th at Bradford University. The sub-title of the presentation was Beyond “no significant difference”, on the basis that, in education, we use technology to do things the same way as we have always done rather than [...]

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This book gives a detailed and comprehensive coverage of how digital technologies can be used to transform our present, outdated, industrial model of education. Co-published by BC Campus and the Commonwealth of Learning, it is available as a free download. As we are aware, despite the widespread availability of new technologies, their impact on teaching [...]

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Take care.

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A great research tool that sits within Firefox and can be accessed both on- and offline. Like del.icio.us, Zotero automatically captures citation information from web pages and allows you to add notes, tags and attachments. Unlike del.icio.us it also stores copies of Word and PDF docs, images and other files.
Zotero’s main window consists of [...]

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The e-Learning Handbook is another useful resource produced by Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. It is divided into a number of parts, each of which contains links to resources, reading lists and examples. It is a good starting point if you want to get an overview of all things [...]

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Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has produced a useful list of the most popular tools used by learning professionals. The list is a mix of proprietary, open source and web-based tools. She has also grouped them by type, and given other suggestions of similar tools in each category.

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I’ve been using Pannini, my own personalised search aggregator, for a couple of months now and am finding it very useful. Pannini is a searchbot - a search engine that feeds off Google, Yahoo, Delicious, Magnolia, GeoURL and others. By feeding it with your own key tag words, it builds up an artificial intelligence, enabling [...]

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A really great presentation by Will Richardson describing where our students are coming from, how they are living there lives with the technology and how we need to be looking at the pedagogies we use as teachers and asking ourselves how relevant they really are.
4 questions you should ask yourself as a teacher:
1. What are [...]

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Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor with a giant vision: to create a free, global online education system. In this presentation, he introduces Connexions, the open-access publishing system that’s changing the landscape of education by providing free coursework and educational materials to everyone in the world. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 19:18)

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Some universities are starting to realise the potential of Web 2.0 tools not only for engaging students once they are on their programmes but also for recruiting them in the first place. This article by Candace Lombardi in CNET News describes how the effective and imaginative use of these tools is giving these institutions [...]

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