Mar

11

MyEdu #education #portal building a uni for the i-me-me-mine generation? #jisc

March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment

More Success with Less Stress
MyEdu’s ground breaking applications make it easy for college students to design, manage and navigate the path towards graduation. We give you everything you need to pick the best professors, design a great schedule, balance work and [...]

Mar

9

Infinitely sloppy thinking: one point and one question about “approaching infinity”

March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Point: No matter how many servers Google or RackSpace etc install, the amount of available storage will never "approach infinity". No matter how much you have, there could always be infinitely more (in this thought-experimental world where there are still infinitely more possible servers). A gazillion servers with peta peta peta bytes of memory each [...]

Mar

8

5 Ways to Use Wave for Business or Academic/Educational Development #ALT #JISC

March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

by Sharlyn Lauby
via mashable.com
It would be good to see ALT planning to incorporate some wave into the social networking around the ALT-C conference. Maybe the official Crowdvine network (http://cmalt-net.alt.ac.uk/) could kick it off, or the F-ALT fringe (http://f-alt.wetpaint.com/). The problem is that Google has not yet opened Wave up to public registration. [...]

Mar

8

University of the People- World’s first tuition free online university #open #access #education

March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

via uopeople.org
Thanks to my delicious network for this link. Appeals to me, and Yale U association gives it credibility. Not sure it is the “world’s first”, unless tuition-free means no teaching Of course this means no fees. It this a blow back against U of Phoenix? I can see how to become a [...]

Mar

8

Testing Buzz and Posterous integration; Big thumbs up for Posterous swift personal reply

March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I just followed Posterous' instructions, here for linking Posterous Posts to Buzz.
Posted via email from George’s posterous

Mar

7

Signal-to-noise management using #GoogleReader, #Posterous, #FriendFeed, #Twitter, #Buzz, #Facebook, #LinkedIn, #Flickr

March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I am trying Google Reader and/or Posterous as social media broadcast hubs.
In order to manage the network noise I might cause, I do not want to repost everything everywhere. This is emerging as a strong social networking faux-pas. But sometimes I might want to broadcast some items beyond the bounds of one network. TweetDeck could [...]

Mar

7

The Social Media Cheat Sheet

March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment

via feedproxy.google.com
Looks interesting (not least as a part of seeing how these various social media hubs interact)

Posted via web from George’s posterous

Mar

7

Social network noise - I want a personal friend aggregator that knows how my friends follow me #tweetdeck #buzz

March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Prompted by discussions on GoogleBuzz, a foray into ALT's CMALT CrowdVine (http://cmalt-net.alt.ac.uk/), I've been looking at some FriendFeed profiles trying to see if I miss anything by not being there, or there. CMALT is 95% (ish) noise while FF profiles that I have seen dip down to, oh, like 90% noise (i.e. items reposted from [...]

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 [...]

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