Earlier this week, I attended a meeting at City University to look at how UK universities are using Second Life. There were interesting presentations from the Universities of Hertfordshire, Edinburgh and Manchester Metropolitan and demonstrations showing different ways of integrating SL into e-learning.
Many of you will be aware of Second Life, the Internet-based virtual [...]
Emerging from the gloop of e-Learning Benchmarking, I’ve escaped to London for a couple of interesting meetings – first up, OpenID.
Q. What links all these companies & organisations?
A. They all use OpenID
Most IT systems nowadays use a form of single sign-on (SSO) authentication to remove the need for users to log into each separate [...]
Today, after four months of preparation, CLT finally launched Chichester’s e-Learning Benchmarking Project. We are one of twenty-five universities taking part in Phase II of this national exercise which is coordinated by HEA and JISC. The aim of the exercise is to look at e-learning while asking three questions:
where we are now?
where would [...]
I’ve been picking up several references pointing to a recent Moodle conference in Graz, Austria. Graz seems to be a hive of industry at the moment, with the Technical Institute being once of the first universities to adopt Elgg. The conference had several interesting presentations, including one by Martin Dougiamas (the [...]
At last we have a copy of Elgg installed on a trial server. After encountering it at an e-Learning Benchmarking meeting and observing it being enthusiastically adopted by students at Brighton and Leeds, we’ve set it up to see how useful it might be in supporting learning.
As a piece of social networking software, Elgg [...]
Back in May I referred to the potential fog that surrounds all things Web 2.0. For those who equate learning software with just a few software applications, perhaps WebCT/Blackboard, QuestionMark Perception, MS Office and a good web browser, it can come as a shock that there are now so many Web 2.0 applications [...]
I recently came across an illuminating slide show (in 2 parts) that runs through a timeline from an ‘early Internet’ in 1746 when Abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet zapped 200 swearing monks connected in serial to a large battery (my favourite tale when I taught science in a Catholic School….) up to Facebook in 2007. [...]
JISC have recently published a survey of 16-18 yr-olds about to enter university on their expectations of ICT. This makes interesting reading and anyone involved in e-Learning will find it useful.
According to the survey, the conclusion is that potential university entrants think that technology should:
support established methods of teaching and admin
act as an additional [...]
Following a quiet period on the blog over the last six weeks or so (useful for Benchmarking preparations), there has been a flurry of meetings over the last week resulting in several interesting items. These include:
1 The decision to make January to May an e-Learning Semester, kicking off with an e-L theme for January’s [...]
Thought I would cross-reference this post from the Chi Benchmarking Blog. Gives an update on what is happening in the Benchmarking project:
A more general narrative about the cohort meeting has been posted on the HE Academy/ JISC weblog by Paul Bacsich – I realise you can access the HE Academy Blog on the Blogroll [...]
