Category Archives: Learning

Conferences in April

By take21 | Published: April 30, 2010
Technology priorities for Higher Education JISC 2010 Conference 12th and 13th April Presentations available   Sustainability LIve 20th and 21st April Presentations from the Achieving low carbon business opportunities seminar programme are available for download Open Knowledge Foundation conference 24th April programme  #okcon http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme     Site for the ‘PayItForward’ RepRap meetups shown at #okcon [...]
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Google in higher education

By take21 | Published: September 14, 2009
Paul Canning reports News that Portsmouth Uni has moved all of its students into the cloud with free, multi-lingual access to an advertising free version of Google Apps, including webmail with 7gb capacity, online documents, spreadsheets and calendars, chat and collaboration and site building functions.A win-win in the cloud for UK Public Sector? We’re going [...]
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Quotes from TED 2009

By take21 | Published: February 10, 2009
Jeremy Silver blogging from TED 2009. Music industry insider. Also Deputy Chairman of Futurelab – the educational innovation think-tank chaired by Lord Puttnam. Quotes from TED 2009
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Serious games

By take21 | Published: December 13, 2008
Victor Keegan has a piece on why serious games matter in Technology Guardian. What are serious games? Games which have the formal intention of training and learning, rather than learning being a side effect of gameplay. Games development is important for the UK economy and currently facing serious competition from Canada’s (successful) strategy of subsidising [...]
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Openness in Higher Education

By take21 | Published: September 3, 2008
Presentation on Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects David Wiley, Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. This  36 minute presentation discusses how tags, blogs, RSS and Google have usurped much of the earlier work  done with repositories. Much of the case he makes about the challenges [...]
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Things You Really Need to Learn

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008
“[W]hat should you learn? Your school will try to teach you facts, which you’ll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But [...] schools won’t teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be [...]
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Things You Really Need to Learn

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008
“[W]hat should you learn? Your school will try to teach you facts, which you’ll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But [...] schools won’t teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be [...]
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Time Management

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008
Randy Pausch on time management. Lecture at University of Virginia November 2007. Video 1hour 16 mins. Why? Time management is vital to study, especially part-time study. What do I get for over an hour of my time? Enough tips to save hours a week of wasted time, for the rest of your life. Some important [...]
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Time Management

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008
Randy Pausch on time management. Lecture at University of Virginia November 2007. Video 1hour 16 mins. Why? Time management is vital to study, especially part-time study. What do I get for over an hour of my time? Enough tips to save hours a week of wasted time, for the rest of your life. Some important [...]
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Motivation and reward in learning

By take21 | Published: July 6, 2008
Motivation and reward in learning: Yale 1948 Uses white rats to picture trial-and-error problem solving and to demonstrate the importance of motivation and reward in the learning process. http://www.archive.org/details/Motivati1948 Video, stream or download. Creative Commons licence. Runtime 13:39 Don’t tell me they were cruel to rats, ask why they carried out these experiments. What theory [...]
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