Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

Tools

Prof: ‘Engage Students Through Their Laptops’ — Campus Technology

  I was interested to see this new lecture enhancement technology being bought to market. Prof: ‘Engage Students Through Their Laptops’ — Campus Technology. I particularly liked this quote: “The key is to engage students through their laptops or cellphones, so they don’t drift off onto social networking sites” Of course maybe they actually prefer collaborating [...]

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Is lecture capture the worst educational technology?

Is lecture capture the single worst example of poor educational technology use in higher education? Many institutions seem to be completely obsessed with lecture capture technology as a method of generating flexibly accesible learning content. For me though the large scale implementation of lecture capture is probably one of the costliest and strategically misguided educational [...]

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A Draft Educational Technology Landscape Map

I’ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a ‘map’. There are a number of such maps around already. Some of these are [...]

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Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice – SNAPP

I came across this useful tool this morning thanks to watching Anne Marie Cunningham’s interesting presentation on using Web 2.0 technologies in BlackBoard. The tool is called Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice (SNAPP) and it is defined on the SNAPP site as: SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of [...]

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