As part of the the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme held yesterday (15th May), Helen Beetham (synthesis consultant for the programme), started the day by giving a very useful summary of key issues and themes emerging from the baseline reports from both the projects and the professional associations associated with the programme.

Managing changing is an underlying challenge to most,if not all, development projects. Managing large scale institutional change magnifies these challenges and brings a host of new challenges.

Selected notes from the Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal on the abundance of open source solutions and services in this area

As I've mentioned before, and also highlighted in a number of recent posts by my colleagues Adam Cooper and Martin Hawskey, CETIS is undertaking some work around analytics in education which we are calling our Analytics Reconnoitre. In addition to my recent posts from the LAK12 conference, I thought it would be useful to highlight [...]

For those that missed yesterday's Webinar on The Future of Web Applications, the presentations and recording is now available from the JISC website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/05/webinarwebapplications.aspx Briefly, the webinar includes: An overview of the current trends in web design by Scott Wilson, A summary by Scott of the new JISC Observatory TechWatch report on Delivering Web to Mobile. http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/2012/05/09/final-release-of-techwatch-report-delivering-web-to-mobile/ An introduction to [...]

Lou McGill from the JISC/HEA OER Programme Synthesis and Evaluation team recently contacted me as part of the OER Review asking if there was a way to analyse and visualise the Twitter followers of @SCOREProject and @ukoer. Having recently extracted data for the @jisccetis network of accounts I knew it was easy to get the [...]

@sheilmcn I'd love to know the 5 most interesting things you learned from #lak12 today:) — Brandon Muramatsu (@bmuramatsu) May 2, 2012 Following that challenge, I'm going to try and summarise my experiences and reflections on the recent LAK12 conference in the five areas that seemed to resonate with me over the 4 days of the [...]

Whilst putting together a report on the broad landscape/trends in analytics service and data providers it’s been interesting to note how one particular analytics tools, R, keeps pinging on my radar. I thought it would be useful to loosely join these together and share.

The final version of the TechWatch Report Delivering Web to Mobile is now available in PDF format. A preview version of the report was announced on 21 February 2012.  The report has been updated in light of feedback received. As described in the … Continue reading →

The purpose of education is: “To teach you stuff, so when you grow up you know what to do and everything! You wouldn’t be able to read and write and do stuff like that.” This was the quite succinct response to the question offered by my ten year old son and on reflection I’m not convinced that [...]