Most of my event reports tend to run away with themselves and hence sit in drafts for ages, but I’ve managed to turn this one round within 24 hours. Two more SMWCPH posts to follow over the weekend, hopefully. Twitter: is it worth the buzz, part of Social Media Week Copenhagen, was held at Bysted on 21 February. Video [...]
Lots of MOOCs going at the moment. A tale of two MOOCs compares Coursera’s EDC with FOE (since fallen over). EDC (from Edinburgh, I’m so proud) is going down well all round for its learning style, while FOE got a nod for useful content. Sheila MacNeill compares EDC with OLDS MOOC, with the former sounding like a [...]
What can social network analysis techniques offer policy makers? Masters of Networks (which I picked up on via E-mint, although @curiousc, part of my PLN, was a participant) aimed to explore this and related questions. Organised by INSITE, an EU coordination action on innovation, sustainability and technology, it took place on 21-22 January in Venice, taking the form of an interdisciplinary [...]
Back hame tae Alba for the first half of September, but still managed to squeeze in reviews of a couple of events in my Law Teacher 2.0 series. #slsbristol led to some musing on the role of the backchannel and how people actually use it – how many #slsbristol tweeters actually monitor the hashtag, I wonder, in particular after the event?
I’ve joined the MOOC (and blogging about it) bandwagon and have signed up for Lada Adamic’s social network analysis course on Coursera, which started on 24 September. I attended an online course on community engagement in May, but this is rather more serious. I’m blogging about the content on my CPD blog – this post looks [...]
Back in November I wrote a post on social network analysis based on a session at the first DREaM workshop. In it I predicted that the community would be analysing themselves, so I was delighted to see the follow-up session at the final DREaM event. At the first workshop participants were asked: Whether they were [...]
Here are 13 things from #heasocsci, the Higher Education Academy’s social sciences conference on 28-29 May. See #heasocsci: social media and social sciences for a picture of the event from social media. Liveblogging is hard, especially when you are tweeting as well. There were some useful posts on the new social sciences blog, but both bloggers were [...]
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February was a non-event tracking wise as I’ve been busy with other things. Time to draw a line under it! The use of social media in higher education was highlighted by #dr12vitae, or Digital Researcher 2012, on 20 February - topnotch coverage from four sessions looking at the stages of the academic knowledge cycle now filed away [...]
The Virtual Community Summit 2012 on 9 February was the first conference organised by e-mint. It was streamed live and a webcast is available (update, 15 March: videos too), but I haven’t had a chance to check in yet or do much of my usual tracking. One useful link so far though is a report from eModeration, a [...]