One week into the BC “Adopting Open Text Books” course. #adoptOTB  I’m embarking on the BC course and in the first week we are provided with a series of videos including David Wiley talking about ‘open’, and we were given the question … Continue reading →

The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Conference 2014 I was very excited to be presenting at the SRHE conference last week, if a little intrepid. As a scientist who dips her toe into the world of social science … Continue reading →

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What better way to overcome jet lag than with making some art. (Big fan). Visited New York on a rainy day last week and the ‘High Line‘ was spectacular. A planted-up disused railway line provides an amazing splash of colour … Continue reading →

Here are my slides from 2014 OpenEd Conference, Washington, Nov 2014. What a great conference so far! My talk followed on from my OpenEd13 presentation at Utah last year, and really builds on the bee I’ve had in my bonnet … Continue reading →

I’ve not blogged for a while. I think my feelings are cyclical and run in long waves fuelled by intense spells of work activity that either lead to phases of excitement when I actually achieve something, or depression when I … Continue reading →

How to conduct effective desk-top research? This article is for any university student about to embark on writing essays or completing dissertations and projects for the first time. However I have also run workshops introducing these methods and they seem to … Continue reading →

  Thank you Facebook for doing what many of us have been trying to do for some time, and that is raising awareness of the important and largely un-held ethical debate regarding the use of personal information and data from the … Continue reading →

Just completing a research marathon that started last summer looking into open online courses and both the social and ethical considerations for learners. The work has included: A systematic review of literature up to 2013 and a subsequent update to … Continue reading →

                        Alan just tweeted a tot up of the Second Life education publications profile that came from a paper just out. He made me wonder where we are with MOOCs? … Continue reading →

It is the 20th May 2014. It is my FIRST anniversary of DS106. And my dad would also have been 81 years old today.                   This blog isn’t an original idea and … Continue reading →

What a day at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley. Just on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, we have all heard of Bletchley Park and the quest to decipher the German Enigma coding during World War Two. For me, … Continue reading →

28th and 29th April 2014 sees both the Association of National Teaching Fellows annual symposium in Birmingham and Open Educational Resources (OER) 14 – the conference very much alive and kicking celebrating UK Open Education. THIS IS ONE OF MY … Continue reading →

(From George White’s Scandals of 1935) Here we are again with the “Research Quality’s Scandals of 2014“. Those of you awake out there might notice that George White performed his “scandals” or reviews on an annual basis, you will note … Continue reading →

I do love learning something new, and that is the great think about DS106, those little ideas that you can apply. I’m also trying to make sure all my blogs from now on are as accessible as they can be. … Continue reading →

The other day, the topic of gifs and photosensitive epilepsy came up on DS106 Twitter, so I thought I’d find out more. I went straight to the medical journals and asked a friend of mine who works at Jisc TechDis. … Continue reading →

WOW! The highlight of open education week for me undoubtably was Jisc Digifest 2014. It was so packed with festival goodies that it was difficult to chose which sessions to attend, and then what highlights to write about. So here … Continue reading →

Happy Open Education Week! Open education philosophies and approaches - resources, courses, practices – are well embedded into educational thinking around the globe. Here is just one example of how awesome open education can be, and how completely awesome the global community … Continue reading →

From Bachology to Barkology.                    Barking Certificate by Christina Hendricks. I loved Christina’s Daily Create today because it referred to the Institute of Barkology. It is a little known fact that the … Continue reading →

Harby-panto-gifs 2014. Treasure Island!      

Richard Smith: Medical research—still a scandal! Richard wrote a great article on the BMJ blog reflecting on a previous editorial by statistician Doug Altman 20 years ago, and how little had changed in the quality of medical research. I often ponder this … Continue reading →

Daily create today is to take a picture of a light in the dark. I’d actually created this animated gif a while back along with a series of gifs in nature that I haven’t release yet. I wasn’t quite sure … Continue reading →

In the beginning was the word. And the word was DS106, and the URL, DS106.us. Two things now amaze and stagger me in writing this round-up: 1) My first piece of art (if you could call it that) was only … Continue reading →

Let the pictures speak for themselves. For more, go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79017140@N08/sets/72157638675490533/ Where mentioned, tree pictures were inspired by Cogdog’s amazing photography on Flickr available: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/ (CC BY). Even better, have fun making your own! Just crop an image at an interesting point, … Continue reading →

I do love this photo of my nan Florence Rooke having a pint. After 17 children I think she deserved it. Doyenne of the knees up, I thought she would appreciate a quick glitching.             … Continue reading →

Here are some really nice reports from the HEA Bioscience Centre on enhancing undergraduate science dissertations and laboratory practicals. In recent years, academic departments have seen growth in student numbers, and the cutting back of resources and access to laboratories. … Continue reading →

Open Education Conference 2013 November 6-8, Utah @VivienRolfe I am very excited about being in UTAH this week and presenting at OpenEd 13. Here are slides accompanying my presentation and below are listed other resources and a short description of … Continue reading →

Create a photo to go with the Satirical Article someone else created for TDC 647? I rather liked this news story from TDC647 because it celebrated the power of the Oreo. A new study on addictive drugs has found that … Continue reading →

An introduction to ethics Series of open educational resources openly licensed for your use (CC BY SA unless otherwise stated). This page includes: Screencast part 1 Screencast part 2 PDF of slides MOCK paperwork (participant information sheet, consent form and … Continue reading →