Continuing the move: Over 100 posts from RSC NewsFeed
Continuing the migration of work I’ve done in the last 3 years at JISC RSC Scotland North & East I’ve imported posts which I’ve authored for our fortnightly electronic newsletter […]
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How Flexible is your Learning?
With continued question-marks about the financial sustainability of tertiary education it is interesting to see how the educational landscape continues to change. As the tectonic plates of funders and providers continue to move apart, […]
Event: Enhancing Business Performance: The Role of Technology in Developing Skills and Knowledge
Date: Monday 21st February 2011 Venue: National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AA Time: 09:30 – 16:00 Cost: Free Both Higher and Further Education institutions are […]
Optivote for Moodle Partnership Programme: Get £3,000 Worth of Electronic Voting Kit and Support
Electronic voting (clickers) in the classroom have been used to engage students in learning for a number of years. As well as potentially being a fun way to learn there […]
Free Online Course in Digital Storytelling
There has been a lot of talk recently with education funding models and the four letter word ‘fees’. An emigrant area is the rise of the massively open online courses […]
ALT-C 2010 Keynotes get a ‘Tweet Track’ with help from RSC Scotland North & East
In the last edition of RSC NewsFeed we posted Farewell Lectures? Donald Clark Stirs it Up which highlighted Donald Clark’s “Don’t lecture me” keynote from ALT-C 2010. In this post we […]
Report: US Department of Education – Evaluation of Evidence Based Practices in On-Line Education
The US Department of Education have recently published a report which analysed the findings of over 1000 empirical studies of online learning published between 1996 and July 2008. The report […]
Entice with a bit of Spice: SpicyNodes Mind Mapping and Visualisation Tool
Regular reader of RSC NewsFeed will probably know that we have a fondness towards mind mapping. Recently we came across SpicyNodes which lets you create and present nice ‘floaty’ interactive […]
NUS Scotland: Still in the Red Report – Student Finance in 2010
NUS Scotland have published a report researching the student financial support system. The Still in the Red report surveyed over 7,400 Scottish further and higher education students exploring the effectiveness […]
A Year in the Life of QR Codes at Bath
If you are unfamiliar with the concept of QR codes they are like the barcodes you see in the supermarket but have the ability to store more information. Usually the […]