Educational Technology and the Adult Learner via wikieducator.org This might be a useful resource for a seminar that my tutorial group is planning in the new year. They are wondering about how and if learning technologies, particularly VLEs and their discussion forums can lead to greater inclusion of students, particularly when the students are working … Continue reading Davecormier/Books/Educational Technology and the Adult Learner – WikiEducator #pcthe

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What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future.via … Continue reading The death of universities via Terry Eagleton in The Guardian

"A blue social bookmark and publication sharing system"bibsonomy.org I am not sure what "blue" means in the site title, but I have imported my Delicious bookmarks into BibSonomy. The UI is more homegrown looking than Delicious - but then the Delicious UI wasn't always easy. That said, it appears to do at least all of … Continue reading I have moved my bookmarks into BibSonomy

Sent to you via Google Reader5 Unusual Ways to Use Dropbox You Might Not Have Thought OfDropbox has just been upgraded to version 1.0, so we thought we’d take a look at some great ways to use it that might not have occurred to you.A free Dropbox account allows users to store up to 2GB … Continue reading Must learn to do more with Dropbox. 5 ideas via Mashable

via misc.jisc.ac.uk This JISC Scholarly Communications Action Handbook provides guidance and suggested actions, in an effort to address researchers' scholarly communication concerns and improve current practices. The series of actions were created in consultation with the community and should help to establish change. Posted via email from George's posterous

Thoughts with a sleeping babyThank you for this precis 🙂 http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/2010/11/04/the-relationships-between-technology-and-open-education-in-the-development-of-a-resilient-higher-education-2/ I am struggling with much of the same. Ten years ago learning technology was a symptomatic moment in educational transformation/transformational education. Still is, though the onslaught seems so much fiercer, now. A challenge is how to effect transformational education in places where the power … Continue reading Comment on @Hallymk1 write-up of #opened10 talk: http://is.gd/gIhE1 blogged here

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via liberalconspiracy.org there's a good start for ConDem health policy... so will the solution to yet another manufactured "crisis" be the private sector? Watch this space Posted via email from George's posterous