Friday saw UKOER10: UK perspectives on open educational resources. If you are interested in open access in higher education, the Open CourseWare (OCW) movement or open educational resources (OER) head straight to the OER infoKit, launched at the event, which provides an overview of the management, learning and teaching, technical and legal issues involved. The event reported on a nationally funded OER programme, [...]
Week beginning 19 July: Je ne suis pas content: Do cultural attitudes to writing affect content strategy? – blog post on this issue on the way… Content rationale worksheet – basics to think about when adding a webpage Nation shudders at large block of uninterrupted text – from The Onion In praise of forums? – [...]
Time for some proper posterousing. Some links on amplifying events which caught my eye: Amplified staff development – rundown of a staff development unconference at the University of Leicester. Interesting in that attendees were not IT/library people, but mainly academics, from the sciences, discussing (of course) assessment – see the word cloud. The event generated 244 hashtagged tweets by [...]
See my other posts on #iwmw10: Remotely attending #iwmw10 and Justifying the Web team vs just getting on with it IWMW 2010, the annual conference for UK university Web teams, has now been and gone. I sat in remotely pretty much according to plan, managing to tweet content! on several occasions, and am now using the Twitter backchannel [...]
users do not read on the Web – instead they scan the pages, trying to pick out a few sentences or even parts of sentences to get the information they want users do not like long, scrolling pages – they prefer the text to be short and to the point users detest anything that seems [...]
See my other posts on #iwmw10: Eavesdropping on the conversation and Justifying the Web team vs just getting on with it Update, 12 July: the organisers’ plans for IWMW10 and remote audiences After dipping into a couple of events recently the plan is to do this one properly. IWMW is the annual conference for Web managers in [...]
Dropped in on a couple of events in the UK last week: OU Conference 2010: Learning in an open world – online only, synchronous via Elluminate and asynchronous via Cloudworks, the OU’s social networking service Higher Education Academy Conference 2010 – RL: Hatfield, with four tracks on future learning and teaching issues, backed up with [...]