Twitter education - bite-sized learning
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 30th, 2009
You may well be sick of hearing about Twitter, but have you thought about it in the context of learning and teaching? Here’s a brief run-down of how it can work:
Wired campus reports on a Professor from Pennsylvania State University who uses two screens when he is lecturing - one to project his slides, and [...]
Global faces and networked places
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 23rd, 2009
Market research group Nielsen reports on social networking’s new global footprint. Some interesting stats emerge:
Social networks and blogs are now 4th most popular online category – ahead of personal e-mail. These sites account for one in every 11 minutes online.
Facebook, which started as a service for university students, has the highest average time per visitor [...]
Role-playing Masked Ball (April 24th, UNSW)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 2nd, 2009
Project EnRoLE is building an Australian community of university clusters, state networks and international partnerships around online role play in university education.
Find out more at the Masked Ball:
When: Friday, April 24th, 3.30 - 5:30pm
Where: Tyree Room, Scientia Building, UNSW
RSVP: enrole.australia@gmail.com by April 15th
This will showcase numerous online role plays and unmask the academics who designed [...]
Edna workshop at MQ (15 April)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on March 20th, 2009
Connecting through edna: building cultural bridges, a one-day mini conference about technologies in education, will be held at Macquarie on April 15.
UPDATE (24 March) - This workshop is now full, but you can contact Lisa Javier to be put on the waiting list.
Edna is the Education Network Australia - find out more about [...]
Uni of the People
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on March 12th, 2009
Here is another contender in the category of “social network unis” - previous mentions of similar(ish) ideas in this blog have included CCLearn, WikiEducator, ITunesU, Ebay Uni, Academic Earth, and P2P.
University of the People, a nonprofit organisation, “promises to open the gates of higher education to anyone in the world interested in attending college.” Anyone, [...]
Monsters and higher education
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 26th, 2009
A recent call for papers for Monsters and the Monstrous - from Inter-disciplinary.net, a network for the exploration, development and publication of work that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries - got me thinking about connections, convergences and lines of flight in the scholarship of learning and teaching. By that I mean the way that learning and [...]
Academic Earth vs Open Education
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 20th, 2009
Wired Campus reports that a new group calling itself Academic Earth is offering free online videos of lectures from leading universities. AE describe themselves as “an organisation founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.” Read the fine print (Mission Statement) and you will find that “everyone on earth” [...]
LTC Common Interest Groups
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 10th, 2009
Join the LTC CIGs!
What is a CIG? - A Common Interest Group.
A CIG is a discussion, driven by the people in it, to ask, reply and work towards creating stronger teaching and learning. Each group is fellowed, supported and actively explored by the Learning and Teaching Centre’s staff. The CIGs provide the opportunity to add [...]
Social Networking and Digital Mapping
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 5th, 2009
This week is Social Networking and Digital Mapping theme week at In Media Res.
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response … Our goal is to promote an online [...]
Contribute to E-learning Insights Vox Pops
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on January 15th, 2009
Edna - Education Network Australia - have issued an invitation to contribute to E-learning Insights, a cross-sectoral podcast that aims to provide academics, teachers and trainers with interviews on leading tools, technologies and issues in e-learning. The topic for the [...]