Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange (ASKe) – is the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Oxford Brookes University Business School. It was set up in summer 2005 with a £4.5 million award (spread over five years) from HEFCE in recognition of good practice based on pedagogic research into aspects of assessment carried out [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Higher Education’
15 January, 2009
Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference
I attended the ninth annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference on January 8th and 9th. This was my second attendance at the conference, however, this time I presented at one of the sessions along with my colleague.
We presented on a project I am involved with at work which is about lecture and event capture implementation and use [...]
3 November, 2008
The Times: UK Good University Guide 2009
http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php
As is usual with this list Oxbridge are at the top. Newcastle are placed in joint 20th spot alongside glasgow. Our nearby North East neighbours of the 1994 Group, Durham and York are 8th and 9th respectively.
Here is a link to a web page explaining how the tables are calculated:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/article2235223.ece
League tables are not ideal in my opinion [...]
14 July, 2008
Free Courses Online at the Top 10 Universities
Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online
#1 UC Berkeley
Berkeley offers podcasts and webcasts of professors lecturing. Each course has an RSS feed so you can track each new lecture. For printable assignments and notes you can check the professors homepage, which is usually given in the first lecture or google their name. Even though the [...]
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
