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As major broadcasters like the BBC and CBC dip their toes tentatively into the podcast thing others are abandoning broadcast in favour of the podcast. The Webtalk Radio Show which was syndicated over a number of US FM Stations has jumped the broadcast ship and will now reach its audience only via podcasts or streaming […]

So here it is, HEFCE's 10 year framework for e-learning in UK Higher Education (with three year reviews). The strategy has managed to incorporate all of the key concepts; from tools which enable student management of their own learning and personal learning environments on the one hand to VLEs on the other, and then mentions […]

CETISs' Scott Wilson is proving himself an excellent reflective practitioner and communicator via what he calls his 'workblog'. In Frameworks: Work in Progress (18 January 2005) he opines: “I think the ELF should be less about 'architecture' per se than about creating a community that communicates design concepts; a place where we can share ideas […]

Thanks to Brian Kelly of UKOLN for the pointer. What a breath of fresh air. Scott Wilson's visualization of a future VLE is a 'must see' and about as far from what we've currently got as a Pterodactyl is from a Golden Eagle. Download article as PDF

The Candadian Broadcasting Corporation's new pilot podcasting project is welcome, but oh! so conservative. Readers of my previous Auricle article Probing podcasting from the professionals will know that one of the CBC shows, Tod Maffin's /Nerd has actually been available for a while and the other CBC show, the science programme Quirks and Quarks, already […]

We've been picking up the vibes about Bangor for many weeks but the Guardian article of 16 Feb last summarizes it pretty well. Eight librarian's heads are on the chopping block because: “The support to the academic and student communities from the qualified subject librarians, whatever its contribution to the teaching and research roles of […]

In February 2004, Auricle initiated a series of articles The Weblog as the Model for a New Type of VLE? based on the contention that the weblog perhaps offered us the basis of a new type of online learning environment; an environment where dynamic communication and knowledge/resource sharing was key. Well I'm back to this […]

So having nuzzled around the podcasting theme in the last few articles we've finally 'bit the bullet', 'got our hands dirty', 'put our money where our mouth is' and other multi-mixed metaphors. So here we offer you our first podcast. It's an 18 minute interview with Brian Kelly who works with UKOLN and is the […]

There's a new comment in Recording online interactions the easy way? Part 1 from Matt Pasiewicz at Educause which invited me to visit their new trial podcast service. Matt's comment also attracted my attention to just how developed the Educause blog is becoming. The Educause blog is well populated and Matt indicates that although the […]

A key purpose of ePortfolios is surely to enable the students to take a reflective approach to learning? Yet many of the existing systems appear to facilitate little more than form filling and CV creation. Still, at least one recent development provides some grounds for optimism. Some months ago, Derek Morrison highlighted a number of […]