Or the strange case of Drs E. Embuggerance and H. Feisty.
This has already been reported on several other blogs but it’s too good not to share again. Looks like Google Scholar needs to work on its automatic metadata generation algorithm:
Embuggerance, E., and H. Feisty. 2008. The linguistics of laughter. English Today 1, no. 04: [...]
Earlier this afternoon my colleague Phil Barker led a fascinating Elluminate session exploring resource tracking issues for the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resources Programme. One approach to tracking Phil raised was the use of unique keys or tag combinations which are embedded in resources and then released into the wild. Googling for the [...]
Cast your mind back to the CETIS Conference 2007 and you may remember a session on Semantic Technologies for Teaching and Learning. This session sought to introduce current developments in semantic technologies, explore their potential application to the domain of teaching and learning and facilitate discussion between these two apparently disparate communities. [...]
The CETIS conference always strives to address current and cutting edge issues in the domain of education technology, however the OER Technical Roundtable session was arguably more timely than most given that it coincided with a Guardian article on open courseware and open educational resources: Any student, any subject, anywhere.
The session was attended by over [...]
Damn few and they’re aw deid!
Famous deid people namechecked at #cetis09
Charles Darwin
Clarence Darrow
Marshall McLuhan (second year running!)
Les Dawson
Aldous Huxley
William Shakespeare
Joseph Schumpeter
Stieg Larsson
Famous deid programmes….
The MAC Initiative
And a couple of deid bands…
The Clash
Lindisfarne (thanks Oleg!)
Only four days to go until the CETIS Conference and we’re already starting to draw up a list of issues to explore at the OER Technical Roundtable. The aim of this session is to give OER Projects techies and other interested folk an opportunity to come together to discuss technical issues that [...]
