Posts Tagged ‘elearning’

The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech

January 3rd, 2010

Well it’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’ve kept it brief because to explain each one in detail would make this post unbearably long and each subject probably deserves a more detailed post to fully explain my thinking. They also aren’t in any particular order. Let’s see if you agree or not. » Read more: The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech

Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week

August 8th, 2009

These are the bookmarks that I have saved to my delicious account using the elearning or edtech tags during the last week. » Read more: Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week

Clive Shepherd Presentation on the e-learning skills gap

July 21st, 2009

This is an interesting presentation from Clive Shepherd that discusses the skills gap that individuals and institutions face. I have been mulling on many of these issues myself over the last couple of years in particular. Increasingly academic staff are facing a bewildering array of choices in the tools that they can use for course delivery and student engagement. It certainly was a much simpler life 30 years ago. I hope to post more on this soon because I think it is fundamental to some of the issues that universities face in encouraging the uptake of educational technologies. » Read more: Clive Shepherd Presentation on the e-learning skills gap