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New Report – The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning

October 28, 2008

The Economist Intelligence Unit, with sponsorship from the New Media Consortium published The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning report yesterday (27th Oct). The key findings, from the global survey of 289 executives* from higher education and corporate setting, aren’t that surprising. In particular the associated press release highlights that "online learning […]

UCISA Survey: Technology Enhanced Learning For Higher Education in the UK

September 11, 2008

UCISA have recently published results from the 2008 survey on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The survey is the fourth in a series of surveys which have, over time, looked at the adoption of what have variously been described as VLEs, e-learning, MLEs and now ‘technologically enhanced learning’ tools. The survey records increased use in technology […]

Scottish Higher Education: Probably the best higher education in the world?

June 24, 2008

Yesterday saw the the publication of the first interim report from the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities on ‘New Horizons: responding to the challenges of the 21st century’. Various papers comment on the potential implications of this report for Scotland’s universities funding (see ‘Related Google News Feed’ for examples). As well as outlining a […]

Becta Technology Newsletter

June 4, 2008

The May edition of the Becta TechNews – technology newsletter is now available. This newsletter contains extensive information on a range of emerging technologies and other technology news. Subjects covered in this issue include: Context awareness Wireless technology Handheld games consoles Robots in education Online Reporting To view the newsletter in various formats visit the […]

Emerging Technologies for Learning

May 6, 2008

‘Emerging Technologies for Learning’ has recently been published by Becta (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) and is available for download. The report “aims to help readers consider how emerging technologies may impact on education in the medium term”. While it doesn’t actually define ‘medium term’, the majority of technologies discussed are available now […]