Do you read me Cafelattia?
Some people are on another planet when it comes to e-learning, Olga Wojtas discovers Gilly Salmon, professor of e-learning at Leicester University, wants to know what planet you’re from. Different...
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Jump for jorum
Most academics will share their teaching insights and aids if they are credited. Now, Olga Wojtas finds, they can do so via a free online bank of learning objects The word “jorum” would be ideal for...
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How to avoid a pig in a poke
The UKeU did not put learners first. E-learning projects that do can succeed if they have a clear, co-ordinated strategy and national support, says John Slater The Commons Education and Skills Select...
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Heavens’ curators
How do you manage a store of information as vast as the sky? Olga Wojtas finds out from astronomers at Edinburgh, who are pioneering ways to archive data from large astronomical surveys as part of an...
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Want to be a Bohr? Click here
The Institute of Physics’s deal with Jisc to give all UK institutions free access to a digital archive of all its back issues has, it seems, pleased everyone, reports Chris Johnston Searching for...
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Contours of the past
A project giving online access to maps of Britain dating back to the Industrial Revolution offers a powerful way to explore many subjects, says Tim Riley Maps offer not only a sense of place but,...
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Free spirits
Open-source programmers, who help drive many institutions’ computer systems, are pirates to some - but they now have a legal champion, reports Stephen Phillips The new Software Freedom Law Center (...
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Treasure for the islands
A scheme to provide Caribbean states with distance learning by satellite and wireless technology aims to foster collaboration and boost the competitiveness of the region. David Jobbins reports The...
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On the record
Steve Bailey assesses how institutions have been affected by the Freedom of Information Act After three months of living with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, it seems as though most further and...
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Backlash may put boycott in jeopardy
The Association of University Teachers could be forced to abandon its boycott of two Israeli universities before it even gets off the ground, The Times Higher has learnt. A move by anti-boycott...
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Lib Dems eclipse Labour on campus
Labour's electoral dominance on Britain's campuses will come to an end on May 5 amid a surge of support among academics and students for the Liberal Democrats, according to two exclusive polls for...
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'I've never refused to work with people who didn't share my views'
Estelle Morris has been appointed pro vice-chancellor of Sunderland, the 'Oxbridge of the new universities' Estelle Morris, who famously resigned as Education Secretary on the grounds that she felt...
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On the move
* Alan Godfrey , professor and former dean of Paisley University's Business School, has been appointed assistant principal with responsibility for lifelong learning and external development. *...
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Inaction fuels research row
Phil Baty investigates a bitter dispute that has cast a dark shadow over a medical school When lecturer Aubrey Blumsohn made allegations of research misconduct against his boss and a junior colleague...
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Thinking aloud? You may as well be, say scientists
British researchers have taken the first steps towards reading people's minds using straightforward brain-scanning techniques. Scientists had a clearer idea of which images volunteers had seen after...