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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

Finally, I will suggest that there are five key objectives to achieve if universities are to achieve success in the use of learning technologies in the future. Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. Doing this, they tend to engage more deeply with learning, and find themselves collaborating more and learning from each other, as a result of using Web 2.0

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study.

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METC: Motivate, Engage, Transform, & Connect and Trogdor, Too!

The Daring Librarian

Related to that: Inspired by the Mighty Little Librarian Tiff Presents I started a new wiki! Up to now I''ve just blogged about it.embedding stuff here - usually gathered from various publications like my Ed Tech Wiki, Flickr, or Slideshare which was fine but it just didn''t seem as cohesive as having it all on one easy to follow wiki.

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Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, & Zombies

The Daring Librarian

And in 2003 a very talented special group of MHMS filmakers Inuksuk Studios & I created this iMovie video called Bookfellas. Also irksome about TT is that Vids I''ve put on my wiki from TT can''t be played sometimes. Want to learn how to Blabberize? ;-) Twilight''s Bella & Edward have also been the object of our parody!

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