Feb

28

Philosophy of Higher Education workshop at the Defence Staff College

February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I had the pleasure recently to run a module workshop on "The Philosophy of Higher Education" in the Postgraduate Certificate course in Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education (PGCLTAHE) for recently appointed lecturers in Cranfield University's Defence and Security Department at the Defence Staff College at Shrivenham. Most of the participants could be described [...]

Feb

21

“Third space professionals”? “Blended professionals”? the products of blended learning?

February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Check out:
Whitchurch, C. (2008). Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: the Emergence of Third Space Professionals in UK Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly, 62(4), 377-396.
Higher Education Quarterly, 0951–5224 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2008.00387.x Volume 62, No. 4, October 2008, pp 377–396
“… describes a further category of blended professionals, who have mixed backgrounds and portfolios, comprising elements [...]

Feb

8

Lecture capture and participatory media for education: a talk for eL@B

February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I suppose there comes a tolerance of living with a degree of chaos. Knowledge is quite loosely coupled, I find.The page I showed with the links came originally from a talk I did at the November eLearning at Brookes (eL@B) meeting on Participatory Media for teaching in Higher Education. The link to the slightly updated [...]

Feb

6

I turned off my mail client

February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment

It may not seem like a big thing. I have generally preferred clients (apps and RIAs) to browser-based Internet tools. But, yesterday after years of Outlook, Eudora, Mozillamail, Thunderbird and MacMail I closed my mail client and am using the Gmail interface in FireFox. Partly this is a self-enforced discipline to see how well the [...]

Feb

4

Social media at Brookes?

February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Who is using social media at Brookes? Twitter? Facebook?We are going Google nowhttp://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/cs/google/Ever wanted a blog. We have a blogging platform. Easy to set up. Just go to: http://brookesblogs.netWe are upgrading this to WordPress mu 2.8.9.1There is the wiki at:https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/What will the impact of all this be? I will be writing about it here… and [...]