Connected & networked higher education
I was interested to read the Connected Learning Environments paper over at Educause. The briefing looks at connected learning environments in higher education and states that: While e-learning often...
View ArticleSatisfaction with digital education
I came across this survey from Gallup on student satisfaction with digital higher education. The findings make interesting reading from a number of perspectives. While the value-for-money and breadth...
View ArticlePerspectives on identity within network learning
Well my notes on Neil Selwyn’s keynote got lost but am back for as session on identity issues in network learning with @janedavis13, @catherinecronin and @catspyjamasanz collaborating together on...
View ArticleMOOCs automation, artificial intelligence and educational agents
Geoge Veletsianos is speaking at a seminar hosted by DiCE research group at University of Edinburgh. The hastag for the event is #edindice and the subject is MOOCs, automation and artificial...
View Articleweeknotes [20102014]
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been further working through my research involving discourse analysis along with network and other sociomaterial methods for my PhD. I think I’m developing a stronger...
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eLearning@ Edinburgh
I’m attending the eLearning@Ed 2015 conference and will be attempting to live blog throughout the day. Melissa Highton, Director of Learning Teaching and Web Services here at Edinburgh is starting the...
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Distributed curriculum
This Tweet caught my eye today by triggering a train of thoughts on what a ‘distributed curriculum’ might involve. This idea appears to position the curriculum as an outcome of interacting within...
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IT Futures at Edinburgh
I’m attending the IT Futures conference at Edinburgh today. These notes are not intended to be a comprehensive record of the conference but to highlight points of interest to me and so will be...
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Near Future Teaching Collider
I attended a Collider event as part of the Near Future Teaching project at the University of Edinburgh. The project is about addressing questions on what should the future of teaching look like in both...
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Patterns, approaches and systems to support teachers in designing for...
These are a few notes and reflections on a research seminar hosted by the Research Centre in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh with Prof Yannis Dimitriadis from the University of...
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Promoting the Effective Digital Education Organisation
The Promoting Effective Digital-Age Learning report from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission gives a competence framework for digitally competent educations organisations. The report...
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Digital Education Seminar: Professor Joel Smith, ‘The Eye of the Needle: New...
Professor Joel Smith is Distinguished Career Teaching Professor in philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and is currently the co-principal investigator of a research project on barriers and...
View ArticleAccess and education
This is a great talk from Tressie McMillan Cottom at the 26th International Council for Open & Distance Education (2015) on the relationship between increasing access to education and the...
View ArticleWhat is unbundling in higher education and why is it happening?
I’m starting the unbundling the university course on Future Learn. This course is an example of a MOOC as research dissemination activity as it based on the findings of the: The Unbundled University:...
View ArticleDigital education as a continuous process
I do like this quote highlighted by Neil Mosley here: ‘We need to think of learning as continual rather than episodic — not as something we do only when we stop doing something else…While the risks of...
View ArticleOpportunities for reassembling higher education
During this period of remote working, I’m reminded of Martin Oliver’s (2015) argument for the importance and value for higher education of the co-location of learners, researchers, teachers, spaces,...
View ArticleOnline teaching at a time of crisis
This post is just some brief reflections on this article on the Oslo University Faculty of Law’s initial experience in moving their teaching online at very short notice. Two things to note: firstly,...
View ArticleNotes for a Friday [2]
Three bits of news and content that caught my eye this week: Accreditation and lifelong learning A new post from www.wonkhe.com at on the relations between accreditation, digital education and...
View ArticleNotes for a Friday [4]
This week has been a lot of ‘heads down’ course designing and building type work. I did find the following of interest: Fostering online learning “research into online learning almost univocally...
View ArticleWhat works for students in digital education
This article on student perceptions of ‘useful’ digital technologies identifies the gap between the potential of digital technologies for teaching and learning in higher education and the realities...
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