Informal Learning & Digital Media – What’s New?

Today is the first day of the DREAM conference – I’m presenting this morning  and I’m still struggling with limited internet access…. I’ll attempt to capture some of the key issues from each of the keynote presenters and then draw out some of the themes that are emerging on informal learning…just allow for delayed posts…

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Podcast lectures…and the list grows…

The list of podcasting implementations is growing rapidly in educational institutions…here’s another report of university initiatives from the Sydney Morning Herald: "Podcast lectures a hit with conscientious university students" . Looks like the student feedback is positive – based on the reports from this article.I rather like this comment (right at the end of the…

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Podcasts, profcasts – research in Higher Ed

I spent an engaging afternoon at the University of Leicester on Tuesday (11th July,2006) with Gilly Salmon and her team, Ming Nie & Palitha Edirisingha – thanks for your time guys!!! For those of you who already know Gilly’s work with e-Moderating & e-Tivities, then you will be excited to find out what Gilly is…

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The Ethics of Tracking

The Ethics of Tracking – this article from Lisa Neal – editor-in-chief at eLearn Magazine should make very educator using an LMS stop and take a few deep breaths…..it’s has been a niggling thought at the back of my mind from 2 perspectives:1) are there any organisations that actually do this….? Probably!2) how many learners…

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