Higher education in regional and city development – Prof Mike Osborne #facecon09

Universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) can play a key role in human capital development and innovation systems. In the time of globalisation, growth and development continue to cluster around specific regions that have a high concentration of skilled and creative workforce and infrastructure for innovation. HEIs can help their cities and regions become … Continue reading Higher education in regional and city development – Prof Mike Osborne #facecon09

@AJCann Death of Seesmic via @josiefraser What’s it say about feedback?

Is video inherently flawed, or is this consolidation in operation?via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com Thanks Josie for pointing this out to me. For teachers concerned with feedback, this is a key question: two really, because the consolidation question is separate from the question of the affordances of the medium. I am interested in the affordance question but do … Continue reading @AJCann Death of Seesmic via @josiefraser What’s it say about feedback?

Twitter, visitors and residents – were it ever so humble, is it home?

there is a visitors vs. residents issue here (to borrow David White's categorisation of online users). Twitter is a tool for residents. It's about people being immersed. It's about people "living a percentage of their life online". When visitors get hold of Twitter they see it as a tool to get a job done when … Continue reading Twitter, visitors and residents – were it ever so humble, is it home?

Much retweeted abt retweeting; an emergent etiquette? apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter

The purpose of this paper is simple. We wanted to explore retweeting as a conversational practice. In doing so, we highlight just how bloody messy retweeting is. Often, folks who are deeply embedded in the culture think that there are uniform syntax conventions, that everyone knows what they're doing and agrees on how to do … Continue reading Much retweeted abt retweeting; an emergent etiquette? apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter

Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

I attended the opening plenary of the CICIN conference to hear John Raftery, ProVC for Student Experience and Douglas Bourne, head of the Development Education Centre at IoE, London. *John Raftery* opens the conference, quoting Sen asking us to resist the ideas that we have a single identity and that we "discover" our identity. He … Continue reading Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

@morageyrie draws my attention to Higher Education Academy: EvidenceNet

EvidenceNet – which is to be a new repository for evidence in support of good teaching and learning practice, including resources, events and “networks” (in other words you can search EvidenceNet to find groups and organisations of interest). via sheensharing.wordpress.com Thanks to Sarah Currier for drawing my attention to Evidence net. This is to be … Continue reading @morageyrie draws my attention to Higher Education Academy: EvidenceNet

Tweet deck the new browser for the real-time Web? You gotta love the vision

More and more, sites are serving consumers streams of information rather than static web pages. And today’s browsers aren’t set up to help us filter and digest this new format. So I started TweetDeck with a focus on Twitter but a bigger vision, to become a new browser for the real-time Web via tweetdeck.posterous.com and … Continue reading Tweet deck the new browser for the real-time Web? You gotta love the vision

@Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators

If we represented truly the worst-case scenario, then copyright infringement can’t be a really big problem, because we don’t have that much via chronicle.com I think the lesson here is that fair use practice in education has to lead legislation, not be driven by it. MIT has led the OER movement. As a pioneer and … Continue reading @Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators

Is the book dead? Well, yes and no: Booking the future | open Democracy News Analysis

Is the book dead? Can the Six Sisters of publishing rescue books? Will publishers find a new profit model? Can bookstores survive the internet? Can writers make a living? What about e-books? Is Kindle the beginning and end of the revolution? Will Google Books be literature's savior or executioner? Where does Scribd.com fit in? via … Continue reading Is the book dead? Well, yes and no: Booking the future | open Democracy News Analysis