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		<title>Early Thoughts on MITx</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/12/20/early-thoughts-on-mitx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT today announced MITx which appears to be an open learning initiative. They describe it as “an online interactive learning platform” that will offer a portfolio of MIT courses. organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication allow for the individual assessment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching lecturing online: is this the definition of irony?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/10/10/teaching-lecturing-online-is-this-the-definition-of-irony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was unfortunate enough to attend a vendor presentation for a series of online academic staff development modules. Basically a series of SCORM packages (so HTML pages, images and Flash content with a little xml thrown in). I won’t mention the vendor’s name for fairly obvious reasons. The pitch was as follows; here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropping out and dropping in &#8211; Steve Jobs and higher education</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/10/08/dropping-out-and-dropping-in-steve-jobs-and-higher-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/10/08/dropping-out-and-dropping-in-steve-jobs-and-higher-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People that know me know that I didn&#8217;t always agree with Steve Jobs but I have no doubt of his creative skill and vision and his impact on modern life. I also think he had a huge impact on education and not always in the ways you might expect. I&#8217;ve been watching the Stanford University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging and trust in Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/09/26/blogging-and-trust-in-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me, as an interested observer of the higher education landscape over more years than I care to think about, that we are reaching the point where it can be argued that the private sector is behaving increasingly in ways that universities should behave and some universities are increasingly behaving in ways that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof: &#8216;Engage Students Through Their Laptops&#8217; &#8212; Campus Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/09/04/prof-engage-students-through-their-laptops-campus-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/09/04/prof-engage-students-through-their-laptops-campus-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I was interested to see this new lecture enhancement technology being bought to market. Prof: &#8216;Engage Students Through Their Laptops&#8217; &#8212; Campus Technology. I particularly liked this quote: &#8220;The key is to engage students through their laptops or cellphones, so they don&#8217;t drift off onto social networking sites&#8221; Of course maybe they actually prefer collaborating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud as a disruptor of educational technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/06/06/the-cloud-as-a-disruptor-of-educational-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/06/06/the-cloud-as-a-disruptor-of-educational-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of higher education institutions (HEIs) moving their student email (and, in many cases, staff email) to a cloud solution continues to grow. Every other day there is a new report one one HEI or other adopting either Google or Microsoft. Intrinsically I am not against this although I do find it interesting how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Studying Between 12 and 2</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/05/21/no-studying-between-12-and-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/05/21/no-studying-between-12-and-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I happened to be on the campus of an old and prestigious university (that shall remain nameless other than to say it was not my own university) when I thought I’d treat myself to a coffee in the main campus coffee bar/ restaurant. Nothing unusual so far but having made my way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More dead edtech please</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/03/15/more-dead-edtech-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night Twitter pointed me in the direction of a new Seth Godin post entitled &#8220;Bring me stuff that&#8217;s dead, please&#8221; in which he bemoans the the way &#8216;drive by technoratti&#8216; are obsessed with whatever the latest technology is. He makes the point that: &#8220;Only when an innovation is dead can the real work begin.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is lecture capture the worst educational technology?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/03/11/is-lecture-capture-the-worst-educational-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/03/11/is-lecture-capture-the-worst-educational-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eLearning at Universities: A Quality Assurance Free Zone?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/02/19/elearning-at-universities-a-quality-assurance-free-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/02/19/elearning-at-universities-a-quality-assurance-free-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of months I have been asked to help a university (that will remain nameless) in its transition to a newer version of of its Learning Management System (LMS). As part of this I have had to access many LMS course spaces to check that content has migrated successfully and that that [...]]]></description>
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