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Teachers as learners - the development of academic staff
Teaching is just one element in the learning process, though one for which teachers themselves have been perhaps too ready to claim predominance.\nNevertheless, the multiplicity of social and inter-personal practices which we call teaching play an inescapable part in shaping the environments of both formal and informal learning. The promotion of teaching and of academics in their role as teachers is the subject of this issue of Academy Exchange.
News: E-Learning's 'Third Phase' - Inside Higher Ed | Diigo
SunGard Higher Education is today announcing plans to integrate Epsilen, a learning-based social networking platform, into its learning-management system. The partnership will give SunGard clients access to Epsilen’s collaboration and e-portfolio tools -- as well as 158 years’ worth of digital archives of The New York Times, whose parent company owns the majority share of Epsilen.
Times Higher Education - Education news, resources and university jobs for the academic world - The future's bright for universities ... if they reinvent themselves
Mike Boxall argues that we must forget the certainties of the past if we are to make the most of the opportunities of the future
Textbook or Facebook
First-year students are happy with the technology available at university, a new study shows. Ipsos-MORI followed a cohort of young people who took part in an online survey last year to tell us about their expectations of ICT at university. This year we returned to the cohort, to discover that half feel their experience of university life overall is just as good, or better, as they expected. Their expectations of the ICT used on courses, in their social life, and to support their university studies have largely been met.
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/content/textbook-or-facebook-higher-education-students-exp.ashx
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They are beginning to use social networking sites to discuss coursework with friends, though there are still some barriers to using them in teaching and learning. 73% use social networking sites to discuss coursework with others; with 27% on at least a weekly basis. Of these, 75% think such sites as useful in enhancing their learning.
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In 2004, Microsoft undertook the task of exploring the future of work using scenario planning. In this article, the follow-up to “Scenario Planning and the Future of Education,” which appeared in Innovate’s June/July 2008 issue, Daniel W. Rasmus describes what education looks like in the four scenarios that emerged from this process. Rasmus suggests that educators and policy makers can use these scenarios and the accompanying narratives to consider how large and small choices work toward or against a particular future.
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In 2004, Microsoft undertook the task of exploring the future of work using scenario planning. In this article, the follow-up to “Scenario Planning and the Future of Education,” which appeared in Innovate’s June/July 2008 issue, Daniel W. Rasmus describes what education looks like in the four scenarios that emerged from this process. Rasmus suggests that educators and policy makers can use these scenarios and the accompanying narratives to consider how large and small choices work toward or against a particular future.
JISC infoNet - Building Capacity: Preparing for Bologna
The aim of the Bologna Process is to create a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and to promote the European system of higher education worldwide. The aspiration for achieving this is 2010, although it is likely the transformational Bologna Process wil
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