Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

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Early Thoughts on MITx

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 [...]

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The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech

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 [...]

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Interesting Research on the Reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER)

I stumbled on this interesting blog post on the lack of reuse of OER. It reports the findings of a recent PhD thesis examining the extent of OER reuse within one particular collection. I won’t repeat the summary findings here as you see them summarised on the post itself and you can view the full [...]

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