One man and his spreadsheet, a gephi wizard and the voice of reason

February 27, 2012
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Is how I would sum up the speakers at the Social Network Analysis session at #cetis12.
I started the session by giving a very brief overview of SNA and tried to highlight why I think it is important, particularly to an organisation such as CETIS, who stakes quite a bit of of its [...]

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App Stores Galore at #cetis12

February 26, 2012
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Over the last two months, The Open University, the University of Bolton, KU Leuven, and IMC, with funding from JISC, have been working to develop a Widget Store aimed at the UK education sector using a codebase shared across and sustained by a range of other EU projects and consortia. (see Scott's post for [...]

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A Conversation Around the Digital University: Part 3

February 17, 2012
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Following our introductory post and our last post on Digital Participation, in this post we are going to explore the Information Literacy quadrant of our conceptual model.
To reiterate,the logic of our overall discussion starts with the macro concept of Digital Participation which provides the wider societal backdrop to educational development. Information Literacy enables digital [...]

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NMC 2012 HE Horizon Report - there’s an app for that

February 14, 2012

Well not quite an app for the report itself which has just been published, but there is now a weekly HZ EdTech Weekly App, as well as a useful short video summarising the key technologies identified in this years report. Mobile apps and tablet computing top the near time adoption trends, game based learning [...]

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A Conversation around the Digital University - Part 2

February 10, 2012
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Following on from our introductory "A conversation around what it means to be a digital university" post, we are now going to start to look in more detail at the matrix we introduced.

We believe that these four high level headings are key for strategic conceptualization for a 21st Century University. Below is the expanded [...]

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