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Student satisfaction unrelated to learning behaviour and academic performance
I seem to spend a lot of time lately moaning about bad data practices. About approaches to learning analytics which appear to be based on looking at what data is ... -
The slow cancellation of the future
Writing in the Guardian, Becky Gardiner, a senior lecturer at Goldsmiths University in London, explains why she is on strike. Although the strike in the UK universities is now into ... -
Open Leadership
I like the open leadership map white paper released by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla say: Open Leadership is the “how” of our work. It’s how we accomplish our work in ... -
Pontydysgu SL
Regular readers may know Pontydysgu have been involved in different European projects around the use of technology in education, the training of teachers and trainers and careers advice and counselling (amongst ... -
Are job algorithms good enough?
We've all made jokes about the jobs that various 'professional' social networks recommend for us. This morning I had a message from ResearchGate: LinkedIn is no better. Here are two ... -
Personal Learning Environments on Serbian TV
I don't suppose so many of the readers here speak Serbian. And that is a shame since this fantastic fulm made by Serbian TV at the conference and workshop on ... -
Are we lost in online space?
Last November I was invited to give a presentation at a conference "Are we lost in online space?" organised by in Belgrade. As the report on the conference web ... -
The problems of assessing competence
It was interesting to read Simon Reddy’s article in FE News, The Problem with Further Education and Apprenticeship Qualifications, lamenting the low standard of training in plumbing the UK and ... -
Public policy is key to the digital economy
Interesting research from Harvard Business Review who have introduced the Digital Evolution Index to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, ... -
Communities of Practice and the world of Academia
I have worked in and out of academia over the last thirty years including five years working for what used to be called Gwent Tertiary College, a large vocational education ...