Fascinating bi-modality in charts of social media use by young Europeans via @GrahamAttwell

European survey data on how young people are using social media. via pontydysgu.org Either they use it or they don't. Not much middle ground. 25% use the Internet more than 20 hours a week; 30% less than 5 hours. Well, it is more complex than that, of course, but even stronger bimodality is showm with … Continue reading Fascinating bi-modality in charts of social media use by young Europeans via @GrahamAttwell

Why blog? via @AJCann – useful for anyone introducing blogging into their teaching #pcthe

My blog: is a place where I think, plan and reflect forces me to read in order to gather the input I need for my output is a place where I play with technology and ideas often surprises me is a place where I collaborate is currently the most satisfying part of my job is … Continue reading Why blog? via @AJCann – useful for anyone introducing blogging into their teaching #pcthe

Mail lists and more open social software

Chris Rust sent me a link. He said: An Innocuous list you might want to give to the new staff course? Even better, you might get them to discuss adding their own?! Best wishes Chris --------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: TP Msg. #961 The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes From: "Rick Reis" [deleted] Date: Tue, September … Continue reading Mail lists and more open social software

Sustaining support

Further to the last post, Sustaining Communities, the tension in higher education is between: open educational dialogue and institutional pragmatics (a 1000 mile question?). Open educational dialogue is concerned with networks or communities for information sharing, which take a user-centred approach to learning and design for learning on all scales. These networks make use of … Continue reading Sustaining support

New lecturer’s work blog

There is a tradition of keeping "work blogs". Scott Wilson's workblog is a touchstone for this kind of online identity and presence. Scott writes a lot on identity and presence and education (and here and here). This is written in my workblog. I feed stuff into here from my Posterous account. I use Posterous to … Continue reading New lecturer’s work blog

I was asked to comment on difference between education, training, learning

I used to be concerned in this direction when making a transition from working in industrial training and development education to working in educational development roles in higher education. All categorisations of this sort serve to channel people and institutions into differently funded and privileged regimes. There are no essentials of this sort. Conceptual categories … Continue reading I was asked to comment on difference between education, training, learning

how HESA normalises black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates to reduce their impact by a quarter! http://bit.ly/gsVwv

Or, at least that is one possible reading of this following example from HESA's Guidelines for the use of the DLHE Longitudinal Survey Dataset. To illustrate how this is done:Black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates accounted for 21.9% of the selected Sample A. From the initial census it is known that these graduates represent … Continue reading how HESA normalises black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates to reduce their impact by a quarter! http://bit.ly/gsVwv

A response to Leigh Blackall: The New Colonialism in OER

In many respects, OER and the Creative Commons licenses help propel US centered ideas of copyright and intellectual property, indirectly inserting such ideas on the back of moral concepts such as sharing, freedom and openness, as though sharing, freedom and openness didn't exist before, and that the only way to protect such notions is with … Continue reading A response to Leigh Blackall: The New Colonialism in OER

Defining “Creepy Treehouse” #pcthe

In the field of educational technology a creepy treehouse is an institutionally controlled technology/tool that emulates or mimics pre-existing technologies or tools that may already be in use by the learners, or by learners’ peer groups. Though such systems may be seen as innovative or problem-solving to the institution, they may repulse some users who … Continue reading Defining “Creepy Treehouse” #pcthe

Josie Fraser (@josiefraser) on 3 ways to characterise online identity

There are three main ways we can characterise most peoples online internet and mobile activity and presence. Let me state up front that these distinctions are purposely blunt, but do act as effective and critical distinctions, especially when talking to people about how and why they can manage their online identities. via fraser.typepad.com Josie Fraser … Continue reading Josie Fraser (@josiefraser) on 3 ways to characterise online identity