07 November 2011
Julie Voce provides a round up of the 18th international conference of the Association for Learning Technology, Conference: Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate, held at the University of Leeds, UK, 6-8 September 2011. In July 2011, Stanford University announced that three introductory one-term undergraduate courses would be available free as online distance [...]
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07 November 2011
Honorary Life Membership of ALT for Malcolm Read Members will be pleased to note that at the ALT AGM on 7 September, ALT President Carol Higgison presented Malcolm Read, who is Executive Secretary to JISC, with ALT Honorary Life Membership, in recognition of Malcolm’s outstanding and sustained contribution to the advancement of ALT’s aims for [...]
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07 November 2011
Over 500 delegates attended this year’s ALT conference held at the University of Leeds from 6-8 September. The theme of the conference was ‘Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate’. This year’s report draws on the thoughts of conference attendees made via Twitter or through their blogs.
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07 November 2011
In July 2011, Stanford University announced that three introductory one-term undergraduate courses would be available free as online distance learning courses. Within a matter of weeks, 200,000 people had registered for these courses from nearly 200 countries. Seb Schmoller reflects on his experience thus far as a participant on one of these courses and on the implications for FE and HE.
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07 November 2011
Clayton R. Wright presents a comprehensive set of criteria for evaluating the quality of online courses. Originally developed in 2003, this revised 2011 document is based on the author’s experience since the original publication date and the suggestions of various e-learning professionals.
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07 November 2011
This article identifies the different ways that technology is being applied by UK exam board OCR to benefit the whole process of assessment, from administration to exam results.
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07 November 2011
Systems record how students are using them in their log files. We can use this data to understand their behaviour and to help students to perform better by using it to help them to understand what they are doing. Work in this area is already improving student success rates.
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07 November 2011
In 2011, The British Council English Language Teaching (ELT) team invited English teachers in Turkeyto a very challenging race, the ELT Blogathon 2011. This was a blogging marathon designed for teachers of English on TeachingEnglish website. The ELT Blogathon encouraged teachers to move into the technological age with confidence, through blogging and networking.
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07 November 2011
Frank Steiner provides an overview of the 4th annual Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference that took place on 7th October.
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18 August 2011
Mark Childs reviews the recent DIVERSE 2011 conference, which took place from 28 - 30 June in Dublin City University.
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18 August 2011
The Virtual Experiments Team at Southampton University have launched a new website and several new virtual experiments.
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18 August 2011
There are many sophisticated ways to provide interactive content on the web; why would you consider publishing resources in MS Word 2003 or OpenOffice? The answer to this question depends on your intended audience.
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18 August 2011
This article provides highlights from three delegates who attended the recent ALT conference on ‘Lecture Capture – Doing it well and at scale’.
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Why Distribute Documents in MS Word or OpenOffice for an International Audience?
The elements of e-assessment
DIVERSE 2011
ALT-C 2011 – Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate
What Can We Learn From Stanford University’s Free Online Computer Science Courses?
Developing and Reviewing Online Courses: Items for Consideration
Clayton: Thank you Marko for your comment.
The simple list...
Sophie White: Hi Alex, OCR hasn\'t produced the kind of evaluati...
Marko Teräs: To state the same here as I did in my blog: As a p...
Alex P. Real: Good news, OCR & Cambridge Assessment finally ...
