A new web portal (rather 1990's no?) for the UK Higher Education Academy's 24 subject centres has been branded a "mammoth waste of money". Too right. What is HEA for?
Nickelodeon will increase the interactivity on its Neopets site through a new virtual world called World of Neopia, as well as a virtual world based on SpongeBob SquarePants.
"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."
After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itse
Screencasts can be used to supplement teaching materials and can also be prepared in response to student email queries, then saved and sent to other students with the same question. Screencasts can be applicable across all disciplines for online learners.
Reader's friend list comes from the list of people you can chat with on Google Talk or Gmail chat. To invite friends to see your Reader shared items, simply invite them to chat. To remove them, delete them from your Gmail contacts, or from your Talk list.
The number of British students enrolling at UK universities has stalled while those coming to study from overseas has continued to rise according to latest official figures.
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.
The Ofcom Consumer Panel says there needed to be a code of practice so broadband customers get proper information about speeds, and that the Advertising Standards Authority should look at how companies advertise broadband speeds.
Key findings: The research shows that they will bring inherent expectations for ICT with them, display instinctive preferences for technology when presented, and be able to evaluate any new technology they may meet at university.
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.
Tagging online content is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. Is it too complicated for widespread adoption?
I don't like the term digital native. It's not that there aren't generational differences or that there isn't something in the concept: it's more that it strikes me of being a horrible simplification of what is actually going on.
The sign up process is confusing, but provided you have at least a PhD in Computing and the sort of relentless optimism that got Haig through the Somme, you should be able to manage it. Your computer will be filled with a bilious slob of a program that wi
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.
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.
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.
Many different aspects need to be considered when selecting an Electronic Voting System (EVS), also commonly referred to as Personal Response Systems (PRS) and Audience Response Systems (ARS). By sharing the process used at the University of Surrey the au
Disruptive technologies, pedagogical innovation: What's new: Findings from an in-depth study of students use and perception of technology. Computers & Education 2008 50 (2): 511-524.
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 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.
"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."
The turn to online research is narrowing the range of modern scholarship, a new study suggests. Diversity will be lost if networks do not specifically include it (see http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/search?q=wisdom+of+crowds).
A three-year research project, headed by Mimi Ito, involving 28 researchers and 800 subjects, and sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, finds that the stereotypical idea of the Internet as a soul-devouring, anti-social wasteland for our kids is just plain wrong.
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.
Assessments modelled on a pub quiz or on the television show Dragons' Den are among the unusual practices pioneered in universities as an alternative to traditional exams and essays
Usability is the science of making web sites easy to use, enhancing the user experience and allowing the user to find information efficiently. It is not the same as accessibility but for practical purposes we have included within our accessibility guideli
How are blogfolios different from e-Portfolios? They aren't exactly, they're more of a subset of e-Portfolios, or another way of looking at the traditional e-Portfolio.
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
An investigation of "anonymous" edits on the site has revealed that the broadcaster's staff rewrote parts of a page entitled "Criticism of the BBC" to defuse press attacks on "political correctness". Also included in more than 7,000 Wikipedia edits by BBC
"schools and colleges should make students, teachers and parents aware of the range of ‘free-to-use’ products (such as office productivity suites) that are available, and how to access and use them"
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.
Though it may seem like everything has an RSS feed nowadays, lots of sites still lack the feature. Fortunately, there's Dapper: The Data Mapper, a web service that will take information from a site and package it in the form of your choice.