By Lorna | November 30, 2008
Qotd from two year old daughter in response to seven year old boy:
7 year old boy: “Rhuna you’re a genius!”
2 year old daughter: “I’m not a genius, I’m a girl.”
Girl being one step up from genius obviously….
By Lorna | November 28, 2008
Famous deceased name checked at cetis08.
Plato
Herbert Marcuse
Martin Heidegger
Jean Francois Lyotard
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Josef Stalin
Peter Kropotkin
Marshall Mcluhan
Cozy Powell
By Lorna | November 28, 2008
The Open Educational Resources session at CETIS08 was a little different from the other conference session in that it aimed to provided participants with some background to the forthcoming JISC / HEFCE OER programme while at the same time giving them an opportunity to comment and provide input. Further information on this call is available [...]
By Lorna | November 27, 2008
Without a doubt the zenith of the recent CETIS08 conference has to be the evolution of a new concept in educational technology - eduprog.
(copyright: it’s Phil’s fault)
Eduprog crystalised from the domains of metadata, repositories, educational technology and unusual puddings and is set to challenge edupunk as the real underground movement of the moment. [...]
By Lorna | November 27, 2008
So that’s it, #cetis08 is all over bar the blogging and the occasional tweet. I’ll be attempting to synthesise the discussions from the OER session over the next few days but in the meantime here are my highs and lows of the last couple of days:
High Points
Adam’s “impressively geeky” summary of CETIS activity [...]
By Lorna | November 21, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post summarising a discussion that had take place at RPAG prompted by Andy Powells suggestion that
…the issues around learning object repositories, certainly the softer issues like what motivates people to deposit, are so totally different from those around research repositories that it makes no sense to consider [...]
By Lorna | November 20, 2008
Ron Cookes recent report to John Denham MP On-line Innovation in Higher Education is an interesting and thought provoking current “must read”.
The report identifies priorities for action to ensure that
UK Higher education remains worldclass and ¦ at the cutting edge of the global ICT economy
and also calls for a clear long-term vision to achieve [...]
By Lorna | November 13, 2008
My colleague Li Yuan has now uploaded the outline for the OER Programme Scoping Session at this months CETIS Conference which takes place in Birmingham on the 25th & 26th November. This is your chance to comment on and provide input to the forthcoming £5.7 million JISC open educational content programme. [...]
By Lorna | November 13, 2008
Scott Leslie’s timely and thought provoking blog post on Planning to Share versus just Sharing has already generated considerable comment and discussion on Scott’s own blog and on other blogs including by colleague Sheila’s Work Blog and Dorothea Salo’s Caveat Lector. While I wholeheartedly agree with the issues Scott raises I’m [...]
By Lorna | November 12, 2008
We have a new art collection in the CETIS office at CAPLE on loan from the Collins Gallery at the University of Strathclyde.
The print on the right is “Into the Depths” by Marie Barbour, the one in the centre is “Three Florentines in the Burning Sand” by Tsisumi Ota and the one on [...]
