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Last week I attended the 3rd Regional Conference on Engineering Education (RCEE 2010) and Research in Higher Education (RHEd 2010) held at the Grand Margherita Hotel in Kuching, Sarawak. I was invited to deliver a plenary presentation on the challenges of implementing problem-based learning (PBL) in the university environment. I developed the presentation around the [...]

David Jones spotted my comment on his post about the need for a third way and writes about the need for academics to feel in control of change in teaching and learning. That links with some reading I was doing yesterday in the process of preparing for my S2 course. I was digging around for [...]

David Jones has posted an interesting piece about how he sees an alignment between the third way popularised in politics and what might be needed in education: The need for a third way « The Weblog of (a) David Jones. He lines up the conservative/republican (in US terms) block with the traditional approach based on [...]

Late last Friday afternoon I received an offer that I found difficult to refuse. One of our Faculty members had been participating in a trial of tablet computers, primarily for marking electronic assessment submissions, but was struggling to find the time to fully participate in the trial and decided to opt out. Suddenly the Faculty [...]

I’ve written on this topic previously (Chance encounters, May 2005) but I’ve been building up to another shot for some time and events today finally brought me to tipping point. This morning one of the members of our University committee that deals with our LMS passed on a copy of an EDUCAUSE report (Diaz, 2009). [...]

Joan Vinall-Cox at Pedagogical impact has posted about Academic Writing & Citations: Academic writing has changed radically since I was an undergrad many years ago. When I wrote my Ph.D. thesis a year and a half ago, I made rich use of the capabilities of word-processing. I used Styles for my headings and for generating [...]

Will Richardson, whom I’ve always thought made good sense, has posted about a script for removing bad words from pages in Firefox. The script is available as a JavaScript file complete with the list of “bad words” in plain text. Talk about a great aid to education. Want to know what words are regarded as [...]

My email today included a TOC alert for the Journal of Interactive Learning Research 16(4). There was more than one article that looked interesting enough to be followed up when I have a few minutes but one caught my eye and demanded immediate attention: Herrington, J., Reeves, T. C., & Oliver, R. (2005). Online learning [...]

CNET News.com describes how Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia. The experiment began wit the posting of a rough draft to Wikipedia. After close to 400 edits in 48 hours the article was essentially the same length but more polished in content and presentation. The CNET piece comments: Andy Baio, who wrote about the Esquire experiment [...]

The Otter Group has published a 1.6 MB PDF document on Podcasting for learning. The 12 page document includes some background about podcasting, examples of use and hints on how to do it. (Via elearnspace.)

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