Check this video out -- Brian Kingrey: Perfection http://t.co/ckzpUdlk via @youtube #mscidel teacher turned gamer, interesting idea!
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Harris, Steve Getting Started with Serious Games webinar presentation: Steve Harris. In: ALT/eln Webinar - Getting Started with Serious Games (19 October 2011).
Hewitt, Scott Getting Started with Serious Games webinar presentation: Scott Hewitt. In: ALT/eln Webinar - Getting Started with Serious Games (19 October 2011).
Harris, Steven and Hewitt, Scott Getting Started with Serious Games webinar recording (made in Elluminate). In: ALT/eln Webinar - Getting Started with Serious Games (19 October 2011).
David Puttnam, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, will consider the potential impact of a major, positive disruption to the way the world approaches learning and teaching at the JISC online e-learning conference on 22-25 November 2011.
Lord Puttnam, who is a renowned speaker and chairman of FutureLab following a highly acclaimed career in the film industry, will share with delegates his view on how pedagogy is going digital, in what is likely to be a controversial and challenging keynote.
Lord Puttnam is joined at the sixth annual JISC online conference by other expert speakers including:
Participants at the conference will be able to pose questions to the speakers and join in discussions from the comfort of their own workplace, using the Blackboard Collaborate platform followed by asynchronous discussions.
Sarah Knight, e-learning programme manager at JISC and event organiser said, “Taking part in an online conference is just as important as if you were attending in person. There will be ample opportunity to join in stimulating discussions and to share practice.
“This year the themes of ‘learning landscapes’ and ‘navigating pathways’ in the digital age, will be discussed focusing on the opportunities created by technology-enhanced assessment and feedback, digital literacy, open educational resources, lifelong learning and students as agents of change,” adds Sarah.
In order to help participants make full use of the networking and discussion opportunities, participants will be able to prepare for the event ahead of time in a pre-conference activity week. Sarah concludes, “This year’s conference is one of the best yet, offering a big conference experience in the most cost-effective way. At £50 per delegate, it represents significant value for money for organisations and education departments feeling the constraints of a tight budget.”
Register now to explore through live presentations and debate some of the latest thinking about enhancing learning and teaching with technology.
BBC News - Internet 'may be changing brains' http://t.co/GKcXxQkM #mscidel
Publishing a lay summary alongside every research article could be the answer to assisting in the wider understanding of health-related information, say the findings of new citizen science project Patients Participate!
Commissioned by JISC and carried out by the Association of Medical Research Charities, the British Library and UKOLN, Patients Participate! asked patients, the public, medical research charities and the research community, ‘How can we work together in making sense of scientific literature, to truly open up research findings for everyone who is interested?’ The answer came from patients who explained that they want easy-to-understand, evidence-based information relating to biomedical and health research.
Every day people are bombarded by health news, advice columns, medical websites and health products and making sense of this information can be difficult. Tracey Brown, Director of Sense about Science says, "We have been working with scientists and the public for some years to challenge misinformation, whether about the age of the earth, the causes of cancer, wifi radiation or homeopathy for malaria.
"It's often very effective but no sooner is attention turned elsewhere than misleading claims creep back up again. To make a permanent difference, we need the public to be evidence hunters. We are delighted to encourage patients to engage with the evidence for medical claims."
Alastair Dunning digitisation programme manager at JISC adds, "JISC believes that publicly-funded research should be made available for everyone and be easy to find. We have funded this work to show how making access to scientific literature enables citizen-patients to participate in the research process, therefore providing mutual understanding and better links between scientists, medic, patients and the general public."
Lee-Ann Coleman, Head of Science, Technology and Medicine, British Library says, "The British Library supports access for everyone who wants to do research, but providing access to information, through services like UK PubMed Central, is only the first part of the story. There is so much scientific literature – and it’s so complicated; developing ways to help people make sense of it has to go hand-in-hand with access."
Engaging with the wider community is increasingly important for researchers. Some universities now offer researchers training in communicating with lay audiences.
Dr Liz Lyon, director of UKOLN, University of Bath explains, "The Patients Participate! Project has demonstrated the potential value of lay summaries to make research more accessible to a wider audience. There is certainly an appetite for this information and we see the new How-to Guide for researchers as a positive step in helping academics and researchers to communicate their findings and to bridge the understanding gap."
Medical research charities have an important role in providing patients and the public with information about the research they fund.
Lord Willis of Knaresborough, chair of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) believes that the "Increasing volume of information about health and medical research available via the internet, the challenge for charities is to help their supporters make sense of it and distinguish the good from the bad. By translating complicated medical research information into language that is easy to understand, they can help researchers and patients talk to each other."
Find out more about why Patients Participate! is part of JISC's econtent programme
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Schmoller, Seb Making 'Research in Learning Technology' Open Access. In: The Conference of the Open Access Publishers Association, 21 September 2011, Tallinn. (Unpublished)
RT @flittleton #SL #mscidel Building Tutorial with @mafrado and myself about to start in Second Life - SLurl: http://t.co/QjuNCnNH
#SL #mscidel Building Tutorial with @mafrado and myself about to start in Second Life - SLurl: http://t.co/bE9yYR6A
Real Barriers to Virtual World Use in Education http://t.co/Y4JCq24O /via @wordpressdotcom #mscidel #elpp
JISC is pleased to announce the second in its new series of free online seminars in which experts share advice on technology issues for education and research.
The regular ‘webinars’ are short one hour sessions focused on providing practical advice on topical issues. Participants can join the session without having to travel anywhere, using just a computer, headset and internet connection.
Register now for the second webinar in the series ‘Curriculum Design – Changing the Paradigm’ on Wednesday 2 November 2011 at 14.00. The webinar will share advice from Marianne Sheppard, Researcher/Analyst at JISC infoNet and Helen Beetham, eLearning consultant.
Helen and Marianne will discuss how a strategic approach to curriculum design and course information can lead to better outcomes for learners and other stakeholders in the curriculum.
By exploring the emerging outcomes from the JISC Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design programme it is the aim that all participants will have a greater awareness of resources available to support curriculum innovation.
Find out more about the webinar and register now here.
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A_L_T: http://t.co/dUib3JuC - a direct link to the NUS Charter for ICT in Higher Education #nus (a printable version is needed)
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#mscel #mscidel #openvce Taking access to a virtual worlds meetings seriously with alternate access methods. E.g. http://t.co/kkvZ8Tjo
Schmoller, Seb and Slater, John An ALT response to the Research Excellence Framework 2014 draft panel criteria and working methods. ALT.
Wired Campus report new Pearson/Google FREE LMS called OpenClass http://t.co/pKXvdA1D #mscidel
@HarvardBiz - What it Means Today to be 'Connected' - Lucy P. Marcus - Harvard Business Review: http://t.co/PHeKQSBt #mscidel
How the Millennial Generation Uses Mobile [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/UccMYPVc via @mashablemobile @mashable - The term lives on! #mscidel
I am in SL at holyrood Park , I dont see anyone else #mscidel
@D mafrado we could share my screen; Skype: keitheab it is 6:50 a.m now you are 5 hours ahead. Anytime within the next 5 hours #mscidel
@D mafrado you are 5 hours ahead of me. it is now 6:36 a.m. I am available now until the next 5 hours. Please suggest a time #mscidel