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POPSCourse notes available under FoI
Personally, I am rather pleased to see this FoI ruling. It looks as though the Uni in question tried all the expected wrigglings to try to get out of providing the information, but the Commissioner has been very clear in his decision. One thing I suspect universities will try to challenge is the conclusion that they do not have a commercial interest in Higher Education. I would certainly argue that they shouldn't have, but university managements across the country seem, to me, to be firmly entrenched in the idea that they are progressing towards being commercial providers of education. It is good to see an official ruling pointing out that this is not the case, but I fear that there may be a lot of rumbling before it really gets finally decided one way or another. So - wouldn't it just be so much easier to publish all your course materials (which don't involve breaches of confidentiality) as electronic resources? Preferably as Creative Commons so that other people can build
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POPSBBC shows education still in great demand OK, I know I could make some useful comments about the age changes, the increase in part time academics or the gender gap, but I couldn't really base them on this piece of reporting... Given the figures for the number of male and female employees in academia, dear BBC, I think you will find there are 35% more men than women 100*(100,355-74,590)/74,590 was the sum you were looking for. There are 25% fewer women than men in academia.
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POPSthe 12Rs - basic training needs That's inflation for you, it used to be 3Rs, and only one of them actually started with an R. But it seems foolish to refute these 12 as being needs.
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POPSMerlot Not just a nice drop of wine, as it turns out...
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POPSOne that got away Pity I didn't see this one before - it has a theme on collaborative learning, and various other interesting areas. Maybe next year.
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POPSKnowledge is a verb? I describe meaning as a verb in my work, but I am not so sure about knowledge being one. I will have to read this, I think.
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POPSResearch shows people have offline lives too Amazing. Apparently, one can't assume everyone is the same - some people use Facebook and others don't. And people from different social groupings tend to use similar social networking sites. Shock. What is interesting, to my mind, is that correlation between college educated parents and facebook use. Getting a degree condemns your kids to a lifetime of facebooking ;-)
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POPSee-learning Sometimes I think we just like playing with the names for things. Other times I see things like the MMOGs article on the left hand side
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