Derrick Welsh is an artist-technologist who has been investigating and promoting ‘Drawing using Mobile devices’, collaborating with communities of users, education and mobile industry.His blog is here:
http://moshing.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/drawing-messaging/
to contact Derrick:
derrick.welsh@gmail.com
Teresa Doherty (Women’s Library) Dr Debbie Holley and Dr Ruth Marciniak (both P/Ls in learning and teaching in the Business School) teamed up with Professor Boyle (LTRI) and his team to develop a resource for new first year fashion marketing students:
http://www.glomaker.org/samples/MarketingFemaleForm/GLO_Player.html
Please make sure your PC has the most up-to-date Flah plugins to enable to animations to run (download for free from www.adobe.com)
posted by Debbie Holley
The LMBS librarian team have developed this lovely resource to assist with journal location
http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/library/Glomaker/journals.html
with thanks to Carmel and Sabri for sharing their work
he OECD Factbook App presents 100 economic indicators in a format specially
designed for your iPhone. Now, wherever you are, you have easy access to a
comprehensive statistical picture of the world’s major economies from the
most reliable source: OECD.
The OECD Factbook is organised around 12 themes such as population and
migration, macroeconomic trends, and globalization. Each indicator includes
a table showing the latest available data for the 30 OECD countries. When
available, it also shows data from countries with which the OECD has close
co-operation such as Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and
South Africa.
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Source, ScreenShots, And Link To App Available From
[ http://tinyurl.com/33ywulu ]
with thanks to Dawn, our fab librarian
To inform the work of the Online Learning Task Force (OLTF), HEFCE
commissioned the Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning team at the
University of Oxford to carry out a study of the current UK provision of
higher education-level online distance learning and to advise the OLTF
where further work was required to increase understanding of this
sector. This report presents the findings, based on desk research
exploring the web-sites of HEIs, FECs and commercial providers, and
interviews with key players in online learning.
The study highlights the difficulties in finding information about
online courses on institutions’ web-sites, and the lack of clarity in
the terminology institutions use to describe their online programmes. It
makes recommendations concerning terminology, discoverability, sharing
of best practice and improving market intelligence, which are outlined
in the executive summary.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2010/rd17_10/
with thanks to Claire Bradley, LTRI
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2010/05/10-techniques-to-massively-increase.html
extract:
This is the classic ‘forgetting curve’ by Ebbinghaus, a fundamental truth in memory theory, totally ignored by most educators and trainers. Most fixed ’courses’ or ‘lectures’ take no notice of the phenomenon, condemning much of their effort to the world of lost memories. Most educational and training pedagogies are hopelessly inefficient because they fail to recognise this basic truth.
read on for more…
Colleagues, i would draw your attention to this blog:
extract from University of Huddersfield
We do see a correlation with stock usage and e-resource usage. Those who achieved a first (1) on average borrowed twice as many items as those who got a third (3) and logged into MetaLib/AthensDA to access e-resources 3.5 times as much. The correlation is fairly linear across the grades, although there’s a noticable jump up in e-resource usage (when compared to stock borrowing) in those who gained a first.
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/1370
Thanks to Claire, LTRI again
Thought I’d pass this on that I encountered at our staff conference
yesterday. It’s an online interactive game produced by Elena Moschini
(an LTRI member) designed to:
support undergraduate and postgraduate students
in understanding issues in relation to the nature, development and role
of information resources and libraries, the importance of referencing, the
construction of bibliographies and issues on
plagiarism.
The game also aims to develop information literacy skills
and awareness of the historical developments of scholarship,
the role of libraries and knowledge repositories, the value of
literature research, cataloguing resources, using libraries and
searching engines, appropriate referencing.
Students/gamers are presented with challenges to overcome and advice to
seek from the game characters in order to follow a trail of referencing
and information resources, select relevant literature, reference a
variety of sources and finally solve the secret of Biblioland.
http://www.biblioland.org thanks to Claire Bradley (LTRI) and Eleni for sharing her resources
Please come along to the LTRI mobile technology seminar when our guest
Tamsin Treasure-Jones will preside, in Shoreditch:
Talk: ALPS Mobile Technology
Date: 31 March; 1.30 – 2.30 (plenty of time for discussions)
By: Tamsin Treasure-Jones
Mobile Technologies Project Manager, ALPS CETL
(http://www.alps-cetl.ac.uk/ALPS.html)
Hope to see you there.
Colin
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/eduapps/download.php
thanks to Caroline Dobson TLTC
