by Derek Morrison, 1 June 2011 Hugh Davis and Su White led an interesting and challenging session at an invitation only workshop organised by the UK’s Higher Education Academy as part of their Enhancement Academy initiative. The meeting was hosted by the Learning Societies Lab at the University of Southampton last Thursday (26 May 2011). […]
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The personalisation of a learning environment: student-led connections online and offline
June 1st, 2011
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RSA Animate – synergising animation and speech?
April 10th, 2011
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by Derek Morrison, 10 April 2011 If you haven’t come across the RSA Animate resources yet then head there post haste; the site offers many items that should be of interest to digital scholars. To me the RSA Animate resources are an excellent example of how further value can be added to what was once […]
The World does the Google Generation
October 25th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 25 October 2009 The BBC has many irons in many fires but one of its more understated initiatives is The World which is a collabration with WGBH Boston and the US PRI. The World also produces a technology podcast which quite frequently contains some gem informed by scholarly work. Such was the […]
Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice
October 16th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 16 October 2009 As a follow on to my posting JISC eBooks and Google Generation podcasts (Auricle, 15 October 2009) I note that Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice (Grainne Conole and Martin Oliver – Eds) is now available, in the US at least, as an ebook […]
Why Mendeley?
September 18th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison (first posted 7 September 2009, updated 18 September 2009) With the strapline “Organize, share and discover research papers” Mendeley is clearly pitching its hat into the academic software ring. There is certainly an interesting mix of people behind this enterprise who have obviously decided that there is a business opening not currently […]
Oxford Internet Institute’s “The Internet in Britain 2009”
July 8th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 8 July 2009 A good starting point before reading the OII’s report The Internet in Britain 2009 (PDF, 2MB) would be Seb Schmoller’s commentary in his recent fornightly mailing. I commented on the government’s Digital Britain report referred to in the OII’s study in my recent Digital Britain report published – read […]
Twitter – who generates the content?
June 23rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 18 June 2009 In my 2008 online essay Take me to your thought leader! (Auricle, 28 January 2008) I highlighted work that suggests that despite the egalitarian vision and, arguably, the hype, the opportuntities for user creation offered by the Web 2.0 world appears to be grasped by relatively few accolytes. Download […]
Research Councils UK e’ related news
May 8th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 8 May 2009 Two recent items at the RCUK site that the ‘e’ oriented may find interesting are: New centres to transform the way we live in Digital Britain and RCUK publishes report on open access study. Download article as PDF
Social networking as a killer app … not?
April 15th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 15 April 2009 In the UK press this week we find Facebook fans do worse in exams (Sunday Times, 12 April 2009) which employs journalistic devices like “researchers have discovered… ” to establish credibility and “findings will confirm the worse fears …” to engage the attention of the anxious parent. Nevertheless, I […]
