December 2009 – Page 2

RSC-MP3: HE Update Nov 09

December 2, 2009

Welcome to our third episode of RSC-MP3 for this academic year. RSC-MP3 is a monthly audio podcast highlighting some Higher Education focused e-learning news, interviews and resources brought to you by Kevin Brace (JISC RSC West Midlands) and Martin Hawksey (JISC RSC Scotland North and East). As ever we have summarised links to the various […]

RSC-MP3: HE Update Nov 09 – Interview Ruth Whittaker

December 2, 2009

This month Martin interviewed Ruth Whittaker (Deputy Director Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning) on the topic of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). As government policy continues to place emphasis on ‘lifelong learning’ and the ‘knowledge economy’ institutions have an important role in recognising and accrediting prior formal and informal learning. We discuss existing frameworks […]

2009 Edublog Awards – Nominations

December 2, 2009

The Edublog Awards 2009 are open for nomination! This is our chance to nominate and celebrate the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology. My nominations are: Best individual blog: Gabber (Kevin Brace) – http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/ Best individual tweeter: @psychemedia (Tony Hirst) – http://twitter.com/psychemedia […]

What I've starred this week: December 1, 2009

December 1, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: “I Want To Use Twitter For My Conference” – November 30, 2009 Apple And Android Now Make Up 75 Percent Of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic – November 23, 2009 Edubloggers 2009 – November 24, 2009 – There are a number of categories for nominations including […]