People have been blogging about the ipad and its potential for education ever since the thing was announced. I got my hands on one last night and here are my first impressions.
I have a laptop and I have an iPhone. I’ve not had a desktop computer for many years – nor do most students. For [...]
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I’ve recently been working with colleagues across the Open University, in particular Liz Burton-Pye, to define a roadmap for our future learning systems. Moodle lies at the core of our online learning provision and its usage is growing rapidly with 50,000 unique users accessing it every day. Elluminate is used for synchronous communication and Google [...]
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The UK government recently released a paper: Higher Ambitions: The future of universities in a knowledge economy. There’s a short section on digital learning hidden within this 115 page document on p78-79. Three points emerge clearly:
University leaderships will have to take responsibility for driving the use of new technologies throughout institutions.
That can be done [...]
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I’ve been avoiding Apple devices since around 1996 when I decided that having both a Mac and a PC on my desk was getting ridiculous. While Macs were in many ways better than Windows-based machines they were clearly losing the adoption war. The arrival of the iPod failed to win me back, perhaps because they [...]
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During the last couple of days I was at the Open University of the Netherlands where I had in-depth discussions with Kathleen Schlusmans, Henry Hermans, Steven Verjans and others, and discovered that they are struggling with almost exactly the same set of strategic issues regarding elearning as we are at the UK OU. I [...]
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Valère Awouters (right) from Belgium recounted the sad story this morning in Katowice of a teacher who was videoed by a pupil with his camera phone while losing control of a class and breaking down in tears. The video was then posted on youtube to the further humiliation of the teacher. Who was [...]
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