Jun

21

Thoughts on Internationalising the home student conference 19/06/09

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I attended the opening plenary of the CICIN conference to hear John Raftery, ProVC for Student Experience and Douglas Bourne, head of the Development Education Centre at IoE, London.

May

14

Flourish: PebblePad Technology for professional development #HEAtpd

May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Sarah Chesney discusses the aims, ethos, key activities and the PS portfolio developed under the Flourish project. Evaluating the use of an eportfolio for CPD for admin and academic staff. Used to ease the admin burden and provide personal learning system (PLE?), within which is an eportfolio.
Academic model practice before students.
Over reliance on email and [...]

Apr

2

4 dimensions of digital literacy #shock09

April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I was discussing an unpublished draft of a working paper on digital literacy at Oxford Brookes. It struck me that a communication theory model might be useful when looking at the tools we might use. The four dimensions I recognised in the paper were:

n-0: solitary reflection
1-n: broadcasting ones self: blogging, writing for publication
n-1: using a [...]

Mar

20

Digital natives? Analogue colonists

March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Graham Attwell makes an important point here, which resonates with work done on university students’ use of the Internet for learning by colleagues at Brookes.
The locus of work or study: the context in which the person engages in online activity is far more important than other more accidental attributes of the individual such as their [...]

Mar

16

Why blog? Hello crowdsource, friends & lazy web: answers on a Tweet

March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I am writing a series of pages about blogging for http://brookesblogs.net.
The audience is

Teachers of undergraduates,
Undergraduates at Oxford Brookes
Other students and staff who might use the service,
Other stakeholders and policy makers

The first wave of university blogging services has long since flowed. The BBC covered it in 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4194669.stm)
The list below is only a quick sample of [...]

Mar

12

One eportfolio for every hippopotalopardile in the human zoo?

March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Ray Tolley (http://efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/) got me thinking.
If you are going to use the term eportfolio in a particular, restricted way, then you need to define the term precisely. Many people have several eportfolios: LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, blogs, PebblePad, various forums and repositories, their own web site, a Monster.com CV, etc. Many more people have none. Those with [...]

Mar

11

#NGTiP09 Portfolio typology further to Flourish

March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Eportfolio needs to be discussed in respect of at least four dimensions:
1 Process
- collection, selection, reflection, presentation
2 Tools and artefacts:
- portfolio: items, systems, presentations (CV, assessed piece of work, etc)
3 Areas of application:
- PDP, CPD, PDR, competency assessment, personal reflection
4 Cultures of use:
- Disciplines, educational sector, professional bodies, learner preference, maturity, aptitude, attitude
Eportfolio processes are [...]

Mar

10

using eportfolio for HE staff CPD and Professional Review - with a Flourish

March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Flourish project:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/usersandinnovation/flourish.aspx
Flourish, funded by the JISC, looked at eportfolio for HE staff in annual appraisal, accredited PGCert in Teaching in HE course, and CPD/Training. They used PebblePad in a “low-risk” environment running workshops, elearning retreats, staff information sharing channels, and using it with students.
The key message is if you want to use an eP [...]