Category: ‘Learning & Teaching’

Notes on Design and Questions

The fourth part of our conversation on Omnium and academia is online at Notes on Design and we would really like to hear some comments from others about the issues we discussed. So head on over and let us know…

Published by Andy Polaine on the 16th of September, 2008 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments

A Vision of Students Today

If you enjoyed Mike Wesch’s now famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video about Web 2.0, you might like this one about the experiences of students today.

(Thanks to one my online Masters students, Kymaree Sheather, for finding this).

Published by Andy Polaine on the 8th of April, 2008 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments

Tuition Fees Favour The Rich

The Guardian has a piece today titled, Tuition fees favour the rich - new study. Did anyone really need a new study to work that out?

In Australia, of course, tuition fees are nothing new, but they are a recent development for local students in the UK. There are a number of knock-on effects of high […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 14th of February, 2008 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments

Social Learning Masterclass

A couple of weeks ago I was one of two people conducting a Social Learning Masterclass at Northumbria University thanks to an invite from Stephen Farrier from the e-Learning Innovations Enhancement Group.

I presented a large part of what we do at Omnium and also COFA Online taking a look at several projects, particularly Creative Waves […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 18th of December, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Presentations 2 Comments

An eBay of eLearning?

I just noticed TalkBean on the Museum of Modern Betas. It’s basically a marketplace for tutors and students - the idea being that the two match up and the student pays for some online tutoring.It’s a shame that it’s webcam and headset as a set-up, because that really limits the type and style of tutoring […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 6th of September, 2007 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments