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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>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>
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		<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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Who Influences Ya Baby?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/11/04/who-influences-ya-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With apologies to those who are too young to have watched Kojak. I’ve been thinking about who influences my thinking and why. I thought it might be quite nice to list them here. Maybe there are some people here that you think might be interesting to follow yourself or maybe there are people that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newman&#8217;s &#8216;The Idea of a University&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/10/10/newmans-the-idea-of-a-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week it was my pleasure to attend a symposium hosted by the Rector of Newman College held at the University of Melbourne in honour of John Henry Newman for whom the College is named. The symposium consisted of presentations from the Vice Chancellors of the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Australian Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoken Like a True Non-Academic</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/30/spoken-like-a-true-non-academic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting experience last month, I was asked to participate in focus groups to help a university IT services department develop its IT strategy for the next 5 years. The brief was to help generate ideas for what might be required to inform a five year strategy but we were also asked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye to eportfolios for a fee?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/13/goodbye-to-eportfolios-for-a-fee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/13/goodbye-to-eportfolios-for-a-fee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve argued for a while that, whilst I agree with the idea of eportfolios as a way of demonstrating student learning, I have a few concerns about the way that some universities have implemented eportfolios. I have always believed that an eportfolio should ‘belong’ to the student user and should be independant of the university. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/03/the-decade-ahead-in-higher-edtech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/03/the-decade-ahead-in-higher-edtech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s the end of the decade and the new one has just started. I thought that, in the name of a harmless bit of fun, I would stick my neck out and make a few predictions about where we might be going with edtech in universities over the next decade.  I&#8217;ve kept it brief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Ways Universities Will Change Over Ten Years</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/08/03/some-ways-universities-will-change-over-ten-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/08/03/some-ways-universities-will-change-over-ten-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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