Entries from June 2008

18 June, 2008

Twine

Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.
http://www.twine.com/

17 June, 2008

Tangible Benefits of E-Learning in HE

A series of case studies have been compiled by JISC infoNet, The Higher Education Academy and the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). The web page explaining the project, the publication and the list of case studies can be browsed to at this link .
Having read the publication it is interesting to see the wide range [...]

11 June, 2008

QA/QE in E-Learning

On Monday I attended a one-day Workshop on “Effective application of quality assurance & enhancement procedures to courses using e-learning” @ the University of Teesside. The event was attended by practitioners in e-learning from across the HEI sector. It was a useful day for me to discover how other institutions view QA and [...]

4 June, 2008

Downloadable University Lectures

As widely reported in the media UCL (University College London) is to offer downloadable lectures on Apple’s iTunes U. This is an area of the iTunes stored designated for universities. Education Guardian Article.
At Newcastle I am involved with a similar project involving lecture/event capture. Interesting to see if we go down this route