link to pdf Following on from the seminar last week, the link above is to an interview with Nigel Paine that was published in Campus Review (8 March 06) Also here is a link to the presentation slides from each presenter…

fmsdownload.cfm (application/pdf Object) Saving because the URL is too long to write down.

link to pdf from Mark Harrison of http://www.kineo.co.uk comes this 40 page pdf about Informal Learning. He defines it as: “all the learning that takes place away from the world of organised formal training. It is: • deep and pervasive (representing over 80%…

From Robin Good link to website “Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations. An e-portfolio is a…

This seminar was hosted by Aesharenet and John Mitchell & Associates. Held March 24th at OTEN in Sydney. Below are a few selected quotes, ideas and suggestions, more detail in the full posts here ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on…

After lunch Louise Turnbull from OTEN spoke to us about a case study “Using technology to do our business better”. Of the 38,000 students through OTEN, all have access to online learning support, and 3,000 of those actually study online. To get to this…

After a quick coffee, we spoke around the table about the things that struck a chord with us. Our table flagged Simplicity, Sharing of IP (no value in owning content unless information is commercial in confidence, you can find duplicates of most information…

John Mitchell’s introduction included a quote from Friedman, we need to be “working smarter and smarter rather than cheaper and harder” new ideas need to be connected back to the fundamentals ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your…

link to pdf This document from the Department of Education in WA provides some short simple suggestions about ‘traps to watch out for’ in working with competency based assessment. This could be quite a useful guide for working with teaching teams, just…

link to website (requires free registration for “Back to Basics”) Before reinventing the wheel I’ve been looking for templates, examples and so on to support a workshop on clustering units in learning and assessment. I came across this case study on the…

link to website PodPress is a plugin for WordPress to make publishing a podcast feed much easier from Dan Kuykendall of http://www.mightyseek.com/ if I ever get around to podcasting this looks like it wouldl make it all quite easy.

link to website “Campfire lets you set up secure, password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, a colleague, or a vendor to a chat. Set up a room on your intranet for internal communications. Conduct meetings with people around…

link to website Alan Levine writes about a recent presentation to teaching staff, reinforcing a thought of mine that introducing the new technologies needs to include time for use of the tools themselves as learners and then reflection about how the tools…

link to website This is another in the NCVER At A Glance series that synthesise various reports and research on a particular topic. Authors: Peter Smith, Damian Blake “Teaching and learning styles in the vocational education and training (VET) sector have…