April 10th, 2013
Colleagues from around the University may be interested in the Masters in Research: Education and Society (FT and PT routes available) which will be run by members of the Education and Social Research Institute, starting in October 2013. You can find out more about it here: http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/resdegrees/mres.php.
April 10th, 2013
These pages, and the report they contain, look at the impact that the recent changes to higher education in England will have on students and higher education institutions.
In 2012, a significant shift in the way universities and colleges are funded took place. From this academic year, students starting university are meeting much of the cost of their education themselves, with access to publicly funded loans, and universities can charge up to £9,000 a year for their courses.
Changes to the rules on how many students a university can recruit are designed to meet the Government’s aims of increased dynamism and student choice.
In light of these changes, among other issues, we ask the following: Have higher fees discouraged students from going to university? What choices are students making? How are universities and colleges affected? Is the system more dynamic?
It will, of course, be some time before we have full answers to these questions. At this early stage, it is impossible to separate short-term volatility from longer-term trends.
April 10th, 2013
The Indian Journal of Open Learning (IJOL) was started in 1992 by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Since the Journal’s inception, it has been our endeavour to reach maximum number of researchers/faculties/learners and practioners associated with open and distance education. IJOL is a peer reviewed international journal and the aim is to disseminate information about theory, practice and research in the field of open and distance education including correspondence and multi-media education; education technology and communication; independent and experiential learning and other innovative forms of education and provide a forum for debate across the world in these areas, with particular reference to India and other developing nations.
In line with the objectives of the Journal we request you to please contribute your articles and research papers based on open and distance learning, which are vital for smooth publication of the journal and to disseminate your work to larger ODL community. Please upload your articles/research papers/book reviews at our Journal web page i.e. http://journal.ignouonline.ac.in/iojp/index.php/IJOL/login
April 10th, 2013
This is a resource you might want to access in order to see the sort of learning that goes on in secondary schools and colleges:
“UK-based Teachers TV has been producing instructional videos showing actual classroom footage since 2008. The content is used by educators worldwide and was government funded until the site closed down in 2011. Alexander Street Press has licensed this material and is pleased to make it available FREE to all libraries in the U.K.
Access to Teacher’s TV has been automatically set up for you. All you need to do is point your browser to: http://edtv.alexanderstreet.com
The Teachers TV content covers every possible subject area— Bullying, Behavior Management, ADHD in the classroom, Early Language, Secondary Maths, Art Workshop, Guided Reading, Primary Science, Dealing with Family Breakdown and more. We’ve created a playlist that highlights this content – please click the follow link to view these examples: http://ediv.alexanderstreet.com/Playlists/398146
In addition to being able to access this important content via streaming video, we’ve also transcribed approximately 50 hours or 230 titles in Teacher’s TV. These transcripts are synchronized to each video title and downloadable as full text documents – giving you the ability to interact with this content in ways not available to you before.
Going forward, we will be offering customers the chance to “top up” from the free version to our full Education in Video collection. This will be available at a significantly reduced cost to a full Education in Video subscription in other markets. More information on Education in Video can be found here: http://alexanderstreet.com/products/education“
April 10th, 2013
22 April 2013 12-1pm (BST)
This webinar will share how the COLLABORATE project at the University of Exeter and the FAST (Feedback and Assessment Strategy Testing) project at Cornwall College are utilising:
in their quest to improve the student experience and to make it more relevant to their graduates’ future employment.
The session will include an overview of their work, a new approach to designing assessments and some practical examples of technology-enhanced assessment and feedback for employability. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion.
The webinar is free to attend although registration is required. To register, please go to http://jiscafemp.eventbrite.com.
April 10th, 2013
April 22-25
Plagiarism Education Week was started to help educators foster an understanding among their students that Originality Matters. How do we engage students in thinking critically, conducting better online research, using sources appropriately, and doing work that reflects their original thought? During this week, Turnitin is partnering with The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), The School for Ethical Education (SEE), and Plagiarism Today to present a series of free, live webcasts that delve into key issues, each day. Attendees will also receive additional resources to help continue the dialogue in their classrooms and at their institutions.
Full details: http://turnitin.com/en_us/resources/plagiarism-education-week
May 5th, 2011
A one day ALT event on 16 June in London at Queen Mary’s University Many organisations are turning to recording lectures and other kinds of teaching session, and publishing these internally or externally so that students and others can access the recordings at their leisure. “Lecture Capture” is the awkward name for the family of technologies that support the making of such recordings. The aim of this ALT event is to help participants get to grips with the human, organisational, pedagogic, quality and technical challenges of doing lecture capture well and at scale. A draft programme is now available on the ALT web site, along with an expression of interest form. Bookings will open very soon.
December 10th, 2010
The HEA has just published a summary, literature review and case studies on the topic of student engagement, by Paul Trowler and Vicki Trowler from Lancaster University.
August 2nd, 2010
The association for Learning Technology (ALT) have recently produced a series of 9 guides looking at how research in various areas of learning technologies might inform the practical deployment of these technologies
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The 9 guides cover the topics below and can be found at
http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice
Tutoring on-line
Web-based course design
Learner acceptance of on-line learning and e-learning
Learning objects and repositories
Learning using mobile and hand-held devices
On-line communities
Technology-supported assessment
Learning environments
Using social software in learning
