RAE 2008 can be criticised on several grounds but perhaps the most significant is that it is based on a view of universities that is 20 years out of date.
A hypothetical analysis of the economics of newspapers gone solely digital,assuming that tomorrow morning every print reader stops buying the paper and instead reads it online.
Filters are rapidly becoming a pertinent issue for developers of social media services. Aggregation platforms are in the perfect position to lead the pack.
The low cost and ease of use of open source software, combined with low funding for education means that commercial software giants like Microsoft will see a continually declining share of the educational technology market.
When you count words rather than edits most of the content in Wikipedia does indeed come from contributors outside the core, but Wikipedia does have a lot in common with traditional publishing organizations.
"I own the collection of comments on my blog, and you own the comments you've placed on my blog and all others. I should be able to back up a complete set of comments on my blog, and also back up a copy of all comments I've placed on all blogs."
David Wiley taught an online course at Utah State University last fall and let anyone fully participate, even if they weren’t enrolled. In the end, five people the registrar had never heard of joined discussions with the 15 or so regular students and got papers graded by Mr. Wiley, who considered the extra work a public service.
Computer experts (?) believe supermodel Kate Moss is one of dozens of celebrities who have paid thousands to play down references to their troubled pasts on the world wide web.
I was once a supporter of the research assessment exercise, but in the long-term it has created an obsession with performance, resulting in many universities no longer appointing faculty on teaching ability.
Information about all landline and mobile phone calls made in the UK will be logged and stored for a year under new laws. Data about calls made and received will be available to 652 public bodies.
I’ve given up on attempting to explain Twitter, if you’re someone who wants to understand something by reading about it instead of using it, then you’ll probably never understand it.
As one of the UK’s leading university centres of space research, the University of Leicester is expected to play a more vital role in human and robotic space exploration if the findings of a review of UK national space policy are adopted.
Using Mind Manager flow charting software to create a diagram detailing how information flows through the social networking and media sites - mapping a PLE.
The advent of Web 2.0 applications, which enable information sharing and virtual networking, could revolutionize science. But are microbiologists taking advantage?
The sleeping giant stirs. Vivendi's Universal Music has said it is to test the digital sale of songs from artists without the customary copy-protection technology.
A feature of UK copyright law is that ripping songs from a CD isn't allowed. That could change soon as Lord Triesman, Minister for Intellectual Property, announced a consultation on IP reform that could make format shifting a legal right.
The deal aims to provide students with web space free from the restrictions of the university, 500MB of webspace and a bandwidth allocation of 2GB per month.
The number of UK consumers searching for post-Christmas sales online more than trebled during the 2007 holiday period, up 249% for the week ending 29th December 2007 than the comparable week in 2006.
Year on year visits to Twitter are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more than doubled and traffic continues to climb, up 60% in the past month.
In the short time that I have used it, Twitter has grown quickly to play a major part in the way that I interact with fellow colleagues and professionals from around the world.
Tun3r is a web 2.0 style interface consisting of a mosaic of hundreds of internet radio stations you can listen to. Dragging the tuner to one of the little pictures brings up the station information, including its recent playlist and gives you the option
"The smart thing to be doing online these days is tumblelogging, which is to weblogs what text messages are to email - short, to the point, and direct."
We cannot learn something that changes what we know without unlearning what we were convinced of in the first place. Forgetting is an essential facet of transformational learning.
The time has come to face up to the real question: not whether there are too many firsts or upper seconds, but why we are continuing at all with the current illusory classification system.
TiddlyWiki is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern web browser. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents in a single HTML file that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive t
Will publishing go the way of that the music industry? Publishing companies are akin to venture capitalists. They make lots of deals where the writer signs away the lion’s share of the profits in return for the investment in editing. The publishing comp
The Social Media Classroom is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more.
As well as being tedious, the sheer futility of it depressed me. In some areas I'm sure the traditional academic journal is useful, but it is almost entirely irrelevant in educational technology. I do read academic research articles (if they're availa
The simplistic view would be to see the long tail in curricular terms: the interactive Web means that, in theory, every learner should be able to learn what they want when they want, without having to worry about the structural constraints that are inhere
When in doubt, blame the latest technology. Socrates thought the advent of writing would wreak havoc on the powers of the mind. Christian theologians denounced the printing press as the work of the devil. The invention of the telephone was supposed to make letter-writing extinct, and the arrival of the train - and later the car and plane - was going to be the death of community.
Unlike conventional models of software development, the open source model is based on the collaborative efforts of users who are also co-developers of the software. Interest in open source software has grown exponentially in recent years. This paper discu
What really impresses lecturers are things like handing your essays in on time, brushing up on your grammar and spelling, and being polite. And it's really nice if someone asks an interesting question.
Students who regularly use laptops are putting themselves in danger of persistent neck, back, shoulder and wrist pain, and they are often unaware of the risks they are taking until it is too late