Challenging Assessment: What did the Fourth Biennial EARLI/Northumbria Assessment Conference mean by that?

This is a report of the Fourth Biennial EARLI/Northumbria Assessment conference held at Potsdam, August 2008.

Where are we with new electronic tools for checking it out?

Report from 12th International CAA Conference 2008, Loughborough, includes ‘Best Paper’ Award

New tools or new ways to check it out?

This week Martin Weller  has been commenting on Brian Kelly’s  statement that the OU is the most popular university on Facebook. One of the contributing factors to this success Martin believes is the tool set which he has developed with Liam, Tony and Stuart .  These tools, such as the Courses Profile, My OUStory and Study Buddy [...]

Checking it out: isn’t that what we do when learning?

I have been trying to pluck up the courage to start a blog for some while now and have been chewing over a few ideas.  These include some of the ruminations over the writing of my book on Digital Discourse, which I am sure will appear in later posts, but in the end I decided [...]