Scholarship of Teaching

Liveblog notes from a research-based symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 23 February 2009.
John Richardson introduces.  Starting point is always Ernest Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered. Boyer’s aim was to get administrators off the professoriate’s back. First time teaching considered as an activity for scholarly inquiry – brief chapter but influential.
Sue Clegg (Leeds Met), What [...]

Social media at the OU

Notes from OU eLearning Community event, 17 February 2009
Sarah Davies and Ingrid Nix are organising the events for the first part of this year.
New eLearning Community Ning site.

Social learning objects and Cloudworks – Chris Pegler
Juliette Culver is the developer of Cloudworks.
Chris draws a distinction between ’social object’-oriented networks – delicious, Flickr etc where there’s a [...]

Video is rubbish

I’ve had an idea in the back of my head for ages for a post on how fundamentally rubbish video is as a medium on the Internet. (Rough outline: it’s not the quality/bandwidth/storage capacity issue – that’s a problem still, but will fade. It’s fundamental to the nature of high-intensity visual media. You [...]

Scholarly Publishing 2.0

I gave a short talk on the future of scholarly publishing at the OLnet/OU “Researcher 2.0″ event last week, which I liveblogged in two parts (part 1, part 2.0).
You can see my slides:
Scholarly Publishing 2.0
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You can watch a video of me talking about what I was talking about:
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Researcher 2.0 part 2.0

Further liveblog notes from the Researcher 2.0 event (see also notes on part 1).
(Interesting meta issue about blog vs Cloudworks. I don’t want my notes behind a login/search wall, I want them on Google! But Gráinne is doing an excellent job liveblogging there too. And maybe my notes aren’t so useful on a blog. Comments [...]

Researcher 2.0

Liveblog notes from Researcher 2.0 event – sponsored by the Technology Enhanced Learning research cluster (part of CREET) at the Open University, and the OLnet project.
Patrick McAndrew – intro
True Researcher 2.0s – weather not a barrier, see what technology to employ. So multiple channels. Elluminate, Twitter, Cloudworks. Video and audio capture. And face to face [...]