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Tue Sep, 02 2008
This version of Auricle is now obsolete!
This version of Auricle is no longer maintained and is preserved for archival purposes only. While internal links between postings should function it is likely to contain dead external links and obsolete references. The current version can be found at:
http://www.auricle.org/auriclewp/
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Fri Jun, 02 2006
Whose PLE is it anyway?
I assume it's because I've waxed lyrical about related matters in Auricle and various conference presentations that I've been asked by the CETIS Personal Learning Environment Experts Group to contribute my 'position' on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Although I'm wary of accepting the mantle of 'expert' – there are none in this area – I am more than happy to share my current thinking, subject to the caveat that the other contributors to this group will undoubtedly have positions of their own which may well be different to mine. Auricle readers are welcome to extract, or savage, whatever personal positions you can find herein. All of my positions are interdependent. More...
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Sat Apr, 29 2006
Building an e-Benchmarking blog nexus
Part of my bailiwick during my secondment to the UK's Higher Education Academy is the HE e-learning benchmarking exercise and, as Auricle readers will I am sure expect, there's got to be a weblog in there somewhere. No sorry there's not one. But there are several. In fact there's a veritable multitude of blogs. More...
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Thu Mar, 30 2006
The weblog as a project dissemination and reflection tool?
As some Auricle readers will know I'm seconded to the Higher Education Academy where, among other things, I'm helping get the national HE e-learning benchmarking exercise (e-benchmarking) underway. We've got twelve UK HEIs taking part in the pilot phase of e-benchmarking and three consultancies supporting the initiative. We are using some interesting, and for some participants, novel, approaches to project communications which Auricle readers may find of interest. More...
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Fri Mar, 17 2006
Standards whose digital video standards?
In my recent Auricle post The digital TV/video promise - more, bigger, and better - but do we want it? (15 March 2006) I briefly addressed some of the complexity that new digital services and associated 'standards' like MPEG-2 introduce. I used the example of recording a digital television transmission and trying to copy it to a DVD for viewing on either a computer or television. There's more about that in this entry. I would also encourage you to read Peter Bates' extensive comments at the bottom of my original post. More...
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Wed Mar, 15 2006
Moodling around Higher Education podcasting
A colleague pointed me in the direction of the audio podcasts on the Learn 4 Life site. They should make interesting listening. Of particular note is the recent interview with Jason Cole about Moodle use at the UK Open University. But then I got to thinking rather more broadly about the way we are approaching the gathering of material which reflects the opinions and experiences of those involved in actually making things happen. Such material could be as much part of our cultural heritage as the artefacts produced by the big media organisations. More...
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Tue Mar, 14 2006
UK Open University does an MIT Open Courseware
With the help of GBP 5.65 million the UK Open University has announced it is to make a selection of its learning materials available free to educators and learners everywhere under a Creative Commons License. Great news as it may help to get the message over in the UK that giving content away won't break the institution. Students register for a course at an institution for more complex reasons than content, no matter how good it may be. More than half of the funding (US $4.45 million) came from the US' William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC)
UK Higher Education enjoys a large number of JISC services and programmes and so it's easy to miss some of the possible gems tucked away in a quiet corner somewhere. One possible example is the BUFVC which, with a small core team, focuses on the use of film, video and, more recently, audio in UK Higher and Further Education. If I was to summarize the BUFVC's main offerings it would be databases, off-air recording, consultancy, and research. A search on the JISC site for BUFVC also uncovers a large number of references to the work of BUFVC. More...
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Mon Mar, 13 2006
Google acquires online wordprocessor
So Google has bought the company behind the Writely Web based wordprocessor and so adds, what will undoubtedly be, the first of several such online 'office' applications to its stable. More...
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The digital TV/video promise - more, bigger, and better - but do we want it?
In this fairly long post I twist and turn my way through some of the alleyways relating to the user experience of the digital television and video revolution that seems intent on impacting upon as all. Some alleys will be cul-de-sacs and some will have deep holes to fall into. Some alleys will be dressed up as prime real estate only to have their cover blown, and some will be, well … just confusing. This particular journey takes us from Hull to China and back. More...
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