Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

August, 2009

Re-arranging Deck Chairs

I spent most of last week in Coolongatta at the CAUDIT-Educause Institute 2009. For those unfamiliar with the terms, CAUDIT is the Council of Australian Universities Directors of Information Technology and  Educause is the peak body promoting intelligent use of information technology in higher education. The Institute has run annually in Australia since 2002 and [...]

Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week

These are a selection of my Delicious bookmarks for the week that I’ve tagged as either elearning or educational technology.

New Players in Higher Education – Challenges for Universities

A few days ago I wrote a post about some the future challenges facing higher education over the next ten years. In that post I covered some of my initial thoughts about the challenges of open content and that I believed the key for universities will be in developing rigorous and consistent assessment in order [...]

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Delicious Adds New Sharing Features

There has been a bit of criticism recently about slowness of Delicious to add new features and even some questions about its future as social bookmarking site. I have said it before and I’ll say it again – Delicious is a vital part of the way I organise and share information. Anyway I was please [...]

Playing with Wordle

I just though I would have a play with Wordle and see what it came up with for my Delicious tags. Here is the result….

Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week

These are the bookmarks that I have saved to my delicious account using the elearning or edtech tags during the last week.

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Some Ways Universities Will Change Over Ten Years

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I am currently working on a roadmap for educational technology in my university over the next ten years. Of course when looking over such a period it becomes crucial to try and anticipate the changing roles and functions of universities over that period so that we can think about [...]

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