At the Alliance Universities Dinner on 29/03/2010 we were addressed by Dame Lynne Brindley, the chief executive of the British Library and head of the HEFCE Online Learning Task Force (see news release http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2009/taskforce.htm and site http://www.hefce.ac.uk/Learning/enhance/taskforce/). She was refreshingly sceptical about some of the underlying assumptions (is Britain a world leader in online learning; … Continue reading Alliance Universities consider HEFCE Online Learning Task Force

More Success with Less Stress MyEdu's ground breaking applications make it easy for college students to design, manage and navigate the path towards graduation. We give you everything you need to pick the best professors, design a great schedule, balance work and social life - and more. Learn More via myedu.com Of course the George … Continue reading MyEdu #education #portal building a uni for the i-me-me-mine generation? #jisc

Point: No matter how many servers Google or RackSpace etc install, the amount of available storage will never "approach infinity". No matter how much you have, there could always be infinitely more (in this thought-experimental world where there are still infinitely more possible servers). A gazillion servers with peta peta peta bytes of memory each … Continue reading Infinitely sloppy thinking: one point and one question about “approaching infinity”

by Sharlyn Lauby via mashable.com It would be good to see ALT planning to incorporate some wave into the social networking around the ALT-C conference. Maybe the official Crowdvine network (http://cmalt-net.alt.ac.uk/) could kick it off, or the F-ALT fringe (http://f-alt.wetpaint.com/). The problem is that Google has not yet opened Wave up to public registration. This … Continue reading 5 Ways to Use Wave for Business or Academic/Educational Development #ALT #JISC

via uopeople.org Thanks to my delicious network for this link. Appeals to me, and Yale U association gives it credibility. Not sure it is the "world's first", unless tuition-free means no teaching 😉 Of course this means no fees. It this a blow back against U of Phoenix? I can see how to become a … Continue reading University of the People- World’s first tuition free online university #open #access #education

I just followed Posterous' instructions, here for linking Posterous Posts to Buzz. Posted via email from George's posterous

I am trying Google Reader and/or Posterous as social media broadcast hubs.In order to manage the network noise I might cause, I do not want to repost everything everywhere. This is emerging as a strong social networking faux-pas. But sometimes I might want to broadcast some items beyond the bounds of one network. TweetDeck could … Continue reading Signal-to-noise management using #GoogleReader, #Posterous, #FriendFeed, #Twitter, #Buzz, #Facebook, #LinkedIn, #Flickr

via feedproxy.google.com Looks interesting (not least as a part of seeing how these various social media hubs interact) Posted via web from George's posterous

Prompted by discussions on GoogleBuzz, a foray into ALT's CMALT CrowdVine (http://cmalt-net.alt.ac.uk/), I've been looking at some FriendFeed profiles trying to see if I miss anything by not being there, or there. CMALT is 95% (ish) noise while FF profiles that I have seen dip down to, oh, like 90% noise (i.e. items reposted from … Continue reading Social network noise – I want a personal friend aggregator that knows how my friends follow me #tweetdeck #buzz

I had the pleasure recently to run a module workshop on "The Philosophy of Higher Education" in the Postgraduate Certificate course in Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education (PGCLTAHE) for recently appointed lecturers in Cranfield University's Defence and Security Department at the Defence Staff College at Shrivenham. Most of the participants could be described … Continue reading Philosophy of Higher Education workshop at the Defence Staff College