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Author Archives: Paul Ayres
Links of the week
Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and the Virtual Training Suite as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. with @Yahoo closing down @Delicious How to: Export, Import and Migrate Your Bookmarks thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010… via @thenextweb Generations … Continue reading
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Are these the journal articles you’re looking for?
Getting to journals and journal articles is still more difficult than it should be – how are online services trying to help students and academics get to the latest research? TechCrunch reports that Academia.edu has launched a directory of 12,500 … Continue reading
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Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and the Virtual Training Suite as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. RT @MakeUseOf Create Your Own Personal Learning Environment Using SymbalooEDU http://muo.fm/bGeHfs RT: @HEAcademy: We’ve launched a major … Continue reading
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When did search become research?
Typing a few keywords into Google isn’t research, yet the words search and research are often bandied about as though they were interchangeable – but is this a new problem? Surprisingly, no. The notion that the word research is used … Continue reading
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Students expectations of technology
Two recent studies looking at student attitudes to technology have found similar themes, despite being conducted on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 is the annual survey of US undergraduate students … Continue reading
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Automatic attribution for images, audio and video
Xpert Attribution is a new tool from the University of Nottingham that can help you credit your sources when using images, audio and video. Much attention has been focused on citation and plagiarism advice about the correct use of textual … Continue reading
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Links of the week
Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and the Virtual Training Suite as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. RT @jiscdigital Our 10th and final document in our latest series of advice is using multimedia in … Continue reading
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Outstanding ICT initiative contenders
The shortlisted candidates for the Times Higher Education Awards 2010 have been unveiled for various categories including the Outstanding ICT Initiative that will be judged by JISC. If you have not heard about all the six contenders, they are listed … Continue reading
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Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and the Virtual Training Suite as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. RT: @timeshighered: World University Rankings #THEWUR results out now! http://bit.ly/thewur Tweaching with Twitter http://goo.gl/fb/74wpg RT @uhlr How … Continue reading
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Tweaching with Twitter
Last week the Virtual Training Suite team attended the Economics Network e-learning symposium. Among a series of presentations on how economics lecturers were using technology, Paul Latreille of Swansea University spoke about “Tweaching for Economists“. Paul emphasised the thought process … Continue reading
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