Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:
- Judith Scott-Clayton: The Dark Side of Choice in Higher Education – NYTimes.com – March 25, 2011 – “So while Ms. Engel suggests that high schools ought to provide more of the freedoms of college, others are suggesting that perhaps colleges ought to provide more of the structure of high school. Work by psychologists and behavioral economists, however, demonstrates the dark side of too much choice. Cognitive overload, poorly defined preferences and imperfect self-control can lead to procrastination, decision mistakes and dissatisfaction with the choice that is ultimately made.”
- Podio Threatens To Replace All Your Project Management Tools – March 25, 2011
- Another MOOC – this time on Mobile Learning – March 25, 2011 – MOOC = Massive open online course and is free for anyone to participate. This one run from 2 April – 14 May 2011 and will focus on mobile learning (mLearning). Facilitators include Andy Black and John Traxler
- HOW TO: Use Facebook Social Plugins on Your Website – March 23, 2011 – Just highlighting there is more than just ‘Like’
- Transforming curriculum design: Transforming institutions – March 22, 2011
- eSTEeM Project: Custom Course Search Engines – March 21, 2011
- Lego blocks and embodied learning – March 21, 2011 – Interesting post from Phil Marston as a result of the Game To Learn conference. Phil is doing a PhD on Games Based Learning and you can see the influence of his reading in this post including references to embodied cognition, abstract thinking, emotional rationality, play and novelty, language and storytelling, building and understanding
- EU warns Scotland not to charge European students for university places – March 18, 2011
- Bring me stuff that’s dead, please – March 14, 2011 – “Dead means that they are no longer interesting to the drive-by technorati … Only when an innovation is dead can the real work begin … I love to hear about the next big thing, but I’m far more interested in what you’re doing with the old big thing”
- Google Docs Makes Commenting More Collaborative With Structured Discussions – March 16, 2011
- Observing Emerging Student Networks on a Microblogging Service – March 16, 2011
- BBC News – Summit held on Scottish higher education funding – March 11, 2011
- Student as Producer video – March 9, 2011 – Highlighting work by University of Lincoln on their ‘student as producer’ strategy which is now campus wide
- Net set to make cookies crumble – March 8, 2011 – about how new European law will prevent websites from using cookie without consent of the user.
- Joining the Flow – Invisible Library Tech Support « OUseful.Info, the blog… – March 7, 2011 – Now that Twitter is a more embedded tool this post is worth revisiting
- Recordings of David Nicol’s Seminar – Enhancing assessment and feedback in higher education: principles and practice – March 1, 2011
- Current JISC Projects of Possible Interest to LAK11 Attendees – March 3, 2011 – some current JISC Projects for anyone interested in learner analytics/business intelligence/resource discovery
- 5 things I think about Learning Analytics – March 3, 2011
- Graham Gibbs video lecture – conclusion have less variety of assessment and get staff to go on a curry night – March 1, 2011
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