If you subscribe to the SOTI RSS feed, you may notice a few pecularities over the next few hours as I make a small change - it should settle down again by tomorrow.
The academic blogosphere as a kind of Invisible College - this site is supposed to help make the College a little more visible to itself and its readers.
Usability is the science of making web sites easy to use, enhancing the user experience and allowing the user to find information efficiently. It is not the same as accessibility but for practical purposes we have included within our accessibility guideli
The record industry just doesn't get it ... Personally, I won't be rushing out to grab either the Daily Mail or a Prince CD, in fact, I may spend the afternoon working out how much they'd have to pay me :-)
Anne O'Tate: A tool to support user-driven summarization, drill-down and browsing of PubMed search results. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.
After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itse
The sign up process is confusing, but provided you have at least a PhD in Computing and the sort of relentless optimism that got Haig through the Somme, you should be able to manage it. Your computer will be filled with a bilious slob of a program that wi
An investigation of "anonymous" edits on the site has revealed that the broadcaster's staff rewrote parts of a page entitled "Criticism of the BBC" to defuse press attacks on "political correctness". Also included in more than 7,000 Wikipedia edits by BBC
"schools and colleges should make students, teachers and parents aware of the range of ‘free-to-use’ products (such as office productivity suites) that are available, and how to access and use them"
When there are infinite copies of something, charging for one is almost impossible. Here are his eight ways of making something worth charging for: like education?
"What we care about is what makes information inadequate." David Weinberger's keynote about the value of the implicit @ Defrag Con. He's describing the route to web 3.0: http://tinyurl.com/yw4ffj
The big loss appears to be unambiguously in Basic licenses, there is no evidence at this time that Blackboard is losing its lucrative Enterprise or Vista customers. The loss of the lower-end customers could actually be beneficial to Blackboard's finances.
How are blogfolios different from e-Portfolios? They aren't exactly, they're more of a subset of e-Portfolios, or another way of looking at the traditional e-Portfolio.
Britain's reputation as a world-leading destination for international students could be under threat as new research reveals that almost 30 per cent do not think the education they receive is worth the money.
Though it may seem like everything has an RSS feed nowadays, lots of sites still lack the feature. Fortunately, there's Dapper: The Data Mapper, a web service that will take information from a site and package it in the form of your choice.
A private for-profit company has for the first time been given the go ahead to offer its own degrees, in a landmark decision which could open the door to increased privatisation of higher education.
Disruptive technologies, pedagogical innovation: What's new: Findings from an in-depth study of students use and perception of technology. Computers & Education 2008 50 (2): 511-524.
A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or status quo product in the market. Sometimes, a disruptive technology comes to dominate an exi
Assessments modelled on a pub quiz or on the television show Dragons' Den are among the unusual practices pioneered in universities as an alternative to traditional exams and essays
Education is worth more to UK exports than financial services or the automotive industry. A total of £28bn in 2003-04 was earned from overseas students.
The number of British students enrolling at UK universities has stalled while those coming to study from overseas has continued to rise according to latest official figures.
The National Farmers Union is responding to the need for farmers to keep up to date on the latest FMD and Bluetongue outbreaks using text messaging. The NFU is encouraging its members to register their mobile phone number to ensure they receive the latest
A Finnish court ruled against a 15-year-old student in a libel case on Friday after he posted a clip of his teacher on YouTube, ordering the youth to pay 800 euros (543 pounds) in damages and a 90 euro fine.
Tagging online content is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. Is it too complicated for widespread adoption?
The Ofcom Consumer Panel says there needed to be a code of practice so broadband customers get proper information about speeds, and that the Advertising Standards Authority should look at how companies advertise broadband speeds.