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Category Archives: Academic use of the Internet
Links of the week
Here is a round-up of news items about information literacy, e-learning and online resources as picked out by @VTStutorials on Twitter. First Annual Report of Three Year (BL/JISC) Study: ‘Researchers of Tomorrow’ http://bit.ly/bVDgtB 10:22 AM Jul 22nd v RT: @mattlingard: … Continue reading
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What are you doing with your Cognitive Surplus?
Last week, Clay Shirky, the Internet commentator and NYU academic spoke at the Watershed in Bristol as part of the Festival of Ideas. A couple of members of the Virtual Training Suite team were lucky enough to get to see … Continue reading
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An introduction to the new Virtual Training Suite tutorials
We recently launched 30 new and updated Virtual Training Suite tutorials covering a range of academic subjects from architecture to petroleum engineering. The tutorials aim to teach students about the concept of information literacy and develop their Internet research skills. … Continue reading
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Is there a Virtual Training Suite author near you?
Last week the Virtual Training Suite launched 30 new Internet research skills tutorials covering a range of subjects from Architecture to Women’s Studies and from Allied Health to Petroleum Engineering. The Virtual Training Suite tutorials are written by subject experts … Continue reading
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New Virtual Training Suite Tutorials
30 new Internet tutorials for university students have just been released as part of the Virtual Training Suite. The tutorials teach Internet research skills for degree subjects, and are ideal for students looking for advice and guidance on using the … Continue reading
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YouTube EDU one year on
YouTube EDU the repository of lectures, video clips and webcasts from mainly US universities has been with us for a year. During that time we’ve seen … 10 countries join the service Over 300 institutions adding their videos to the … Continue reading
How does the Internet see you?
Personas asks the question – how does the Internet see you? Try the Personas search, see it build up a categorisation of how the Internet sees you on the fly and see how that matches your reality. Personas is a … Continue reading
What sort of web animal are you?
The Web Behaviour Test aims to find out what sort of web animal you are by surveying your web habits, as well as, testing your Internet searching and multi-tasking skills. It is split into three main parts: A survey of … Continue reading
Digital nations or virtual revolutions?
Two new TV programmes on the role of the Internet in our lives have started on either side of the Atlantic. The Virtual Revolution is a four part BBC series presented by Dr. Aleks Krotoski. It will look at how … Continue reading
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Tagged bbcrevolution, digital nation, virtual revolution
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