A couple weeks ago we attended the British Columbia Educational Technology User Group (ETUG) Spring Workshop at Vancouver Community College in downtown Vancouver. This was my first opportunity to engage with the ETUG community and I was thoroughly impressed! ETUG brings together academics,… Read more ›
Is the Lecture Dead?
The latest of practice/technology deaths has been identified as the traditional academic lecture. I just finished watching the ALT-C Keynote “Don’t lecture me” from Donald Clark which was delivered in…wait for it…lecture format! So we got a lecture from Donald
Students can now freely access a selection of international OER sites!
We are delighted to announce that we have managed to get a selection of open educational resource sites omitted from the student internet quota. When a student at UCT accesses the web they are using a monthly quota that is
OER UCT on Retreat
I had the great opportunity to represent the OER UCT project at the recentGeekRetreat held in the beautiful Stanford Valley. The retreat was an opportunity to network with some of South Africa’s great thinkers and key players in the tech
The Changing University: How can we Support it?
A Creative Commons Image by Superkimbo A recent report from the MacArthur foundation and published by MIT Press underscores the changing landscape in which higher education institutions around the world are currently finding themselves. This publication will likely reach many