Learn a bit more about Wordpress as a teaching tool http://t.co/Ab2DXraq #etug

etug: RT @Bill_world: Openness and collaboration: #openeducationwk webinars in March http://t.co/8JVulOOi

etug: Join us at the next ETUG Lunch n Learn Tues Feb 28 noon on WordPress, facilitated by Lucas Wright and Emily Renoe, UBC http://t.co/ItvMvTl1

Kim, J. (2102) 5 ideas to support innovation in higher education, Inside Higher Education , February 6 Joshua Kim offers up five interesting strategies for encouraging innovation in higher education in his short blog. 1. Embrace that the Smartest Person on Campus is the Campus. (In other words, involve the whole campus through communication and collaboration) [...]

e-Learning Africa is requesting those involved in online learning in Africa to participate in a survey regarding the state of ICT-enhanced education and training in Africa. Here is their announcement: At this year’s eLearning Africa conference in Cotonou, Benin, we will launch  The eLearning Africa 2012 Report , a major new publication which will highlight the most significant trends, [...]

Grove, J. (2012) Long, cold financial winter lies ahead for Europe’s academy Times Higher Education , February 9 What’s happening in Europe This is a really depressing, bad news item. Especially in the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), universities are facing budget cuts in the region of 20% in the next year or so. For [...]

Continuing with my attempt to increase the speed at which I master the craft of programming , here is my second week of reflection. One part of the reflection process that I noted was that reminding yourself of the previous reflections is crucial. Toward the end of the week I found that rereading me reflections from earlier really helped [...]

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According to the BBC (and they can’t be wrong, can they?) it’s the U.K. Open University, with 40 million downloads so far: Coughlan, S. (2012) Open University’s record iTunes U downloads, BBC News , October 3 Of course, it’s not quite as simple as that. The BBC thinks Stanford University and the OU must be running pretty close in terms [...]

This from the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education: CNIE Awards Festival There is one clear objective for the CNIE-RCIÉ Awards Festival is: To recognize excellence in the innovative educational practice and use of learning technologies in all educational settings including distributed learning, open/distance education, and institutional contexts including government, commercial and or industrial sectors, both [...]

Boulet, G. (2012) Rapid eLearning: Building a House Without an Architect, eLearn Magazine , February 2012 This is an excellent article by Guy Boulet, of the Canadian Navy e-Learning Center of Expertise, on Rapid eLearning. It provides a description, a critique, and a brief analysis of the benefits of Rapid eLearning, including a discussion of the [...]

LinkedIn is beginning to develop as an interesting area for discussions on online learning. I’ve been ‘lurking’ in the discussions below, and I’m sure there are other topics that I’ve missed as well. It’s very easy to start a topic and we will see more and more every day. It would be nice if the discussions [...]

  Lane, B. (2012) UNE and La Trobe hook up online,  The Australian , February 20 Two Australian public universities, the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria, have entered an agreement to share online courses, to increase course choice for students and expand online education. UNE and La Trobe are already participants in Open [...]

etug: RT @LEARNatCTLT: News Item: Welcome to the desktop degree… http://t.co/cefn0EH2

This is a long post. The kind of post that I write more for myself because it is fairly personal and not something that is directly related to what I usually write about here. Or maybe it is. If you decide to slog through my memories and recollections, you can decide. I heard a few days ago that Village [...]

Well, we are nearing the end of this series on Open Textbooks, just one or two posts to go. Before we leave off this section on Authoring Tools, though, I wanted to provide some annotated links to a host of others I have discovered in my travels in case they were of use to someone. Some [...]

Coughlin, S. (2012) MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course, BBC News , February 13 This article provides details of MITx’s first course, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, being offered to anyone anywhere in the world, without charge or prior entrance requirements, with an MIT certificate for successful completion. This course uses the same curriculum as the on-campus course with [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Merrick Brown The UBC Wiki just keeps scaling new heights. For some time, every content page of the UBC Wiki has featured a link on the bottom-left sidebar for the “embed code” for that page’s content – the same functionality that works so well for YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, [...]

The Sloan-C  Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks  (JALN)  advisory panel  on learning effectiveness is soliciting articles on the use of analytics in online learning for a special issue to be edited by Karen Swan.  Full first drafts  of proposed papers should be submitted to JALN ( http://jaln.sloanconsortium.org on or before April 1, 2012 . Final revised copies of your papers will be due by May [...]