Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:
- What is the Student Experience? – August 26, 2011 – SRHE Student Experience Network seminar 21 oct
- Open Badges, assessment and Open Education – August 25, 2011 – post by Graham Attwell triggered by a study group setup by Doug Belshaw. “The Open Badges framework, say the project developers, is designed to allow any learner to collect badges from multiple sites, tied to a single identity, and then share them out across various sites — from their personal blog or web site to social networking profiles. The infrastructure needs to be open to allow anyone to issue badges, and for each learner to carry the badges with them across the web and other contexts.”
- What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? – August 23, 2011 – ReadWriteWeb report on the widespread use of mobiles in Africa. “Students have such a hunger for communication that they get their hands on a mobile phone by any means necessary” which has in places create a Glove style no phone in call policy
- Etherpad Lite V1 is here! – August 22, 2011 – new release of the real-time collaborative writing tool which has be streamlined to allow deployment on more basic web hosting, API released and more
- Another Misread of the “Digital Native” Idea – August 22, 2011 – @derekbruff’s take on the recent OU study
- Stephen Downes: ebook on openness – August 21, 2011 – This post by @gsiemens should be the preface to @downes’s book 😉
- Codecademy: A Slick, Fun Way To Teach Yourself How To Program – August 19, 2011
- Public funding, OER, and Academics – a brief reflection – August 18, 2011 – post by John Robertson at JISC CETIS “Earlier today Amber Thomas kicked off an interesting discussion on twitter about which institutions had a reputation for openness in various domains. One tangential thread from this conversation was a comment Pat Lockley made about the difference between openness that happens in connection to funded projects and openness that happens at your own initiative.”
- Not everything that counts can be counted – August 18, 2011 – post by AJ Cann highlighting paper by Tim Wilkinson reporting the move from a percentage grade based assessment system to pass/fail/distinction which produced “an improvement in intrinsic motivation and a greater sense of professional identity amongst our students”
- BBC News – Most UK students ‘satisfied with university course’ – August 17, 2011 – #nss via @universityboy
- Students name best (and worst) universities – Education News, Education – The Independent – August 17, 2011 – #nss via @universityboy
- HEFCE: Eight out of 10 higher education students give their courses top marks – August 17, 2011 #nss
- QMU launches world’s first curriculum for meetings and events technology in HE – August 14, 2011
- 100 universities making use of new journal evaluation service – are you signed up? – August 11, 2011
- RT @QAAtweets Does more contact mean better value? Read our new guide to understanding contact hours – August 11, 2011
- Google Retires Android App Inventor, Open-Sources the Code – August 9, 2011 – and will now reside at MIT
- Getting Library Catalogue Searches Out There… – August 9, 2011
- Indian Government to Launch Education Social Network – August 9, 2011
- Universities enrol for a marketing masterclass | In-Depth Analysis | Marketing Week – August 9, 2011
- Learning and Academic Analytics – August 6, 2011
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