Innovation in Teaching and Learning

So you want to be more innovative, and you want to innovate your teaching and learning?

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Innovation Future Specialist

Lack of vision in education

Despite a huge amount of talk about the need to be innovative in education, I find that most people in that sector lack vision - they are completely unaware of the tidal wave of innovation that is coming...

Educators should consider looking outside their own narrow field to see how the world may change this century, and within the next two or three decades.

For example, do you think the following is true or false?

Man planning to live forever - within the next 30 years.

The Next Adventure

My blogging activities will focus on the following from now on ...

NG19X Futures

Research is vital to the development of e-learning

Why research is vital to the development of e-learning.

The following firstly explains why research and development are important in the generic sense.  Secondly, it summarises some of the key research that has been conducted by me.

Hopefully, you'll learn at least one amazing fact that you didn't already know; and you'll find that lots of questions you've asked about e-learning are answered below.

Find out the answer to these questions and more:

1. What's the connection between innovation and dinosaurs?
2. What links Kodak, Raleigh Bicycles and the Roman Empire?
3. When is it time for you to retire?
4. What are 21st century skills?
5. When will there be an elegant user interface that supports accessibility and mobile devices, plus other goodies?
6. What's social learning?
7. Stick with Blackboard or switch to Moodle? - What's the answer?
8. What's the future of the VLE?
9. Web services - what's that?
10. What are the two types of research?
11. How do we learn and what's that got to do with e-learning?
12. What's the future of e-learning?

See more here: About Research and Development.

Innovation on Pedagogy

Innovation on Pedagogy

Leave your URLs where they are!

You've got to laugh. I was walking around the university and I saw an envelope attached to a noticeboard. On the envelope it said please take one: it contained little paper strips with the URL of a useful resource for students (hosted at another university). I thought that could be interesting (from an e-learning perspective), so I took one and entered the URL into my computer. The URL no longer exists. So I went to the corresponding department's web site and did a search for the resource. The links to the resource on the hosting web site were also broke.

When will people learn that once you put a resource on the web it should stay at that URL. If you move it, all the links that point to it will break and people won't find the resource.

I see this thing happening all the time - and it's bad practice. In the top 10 most popular pages for our web site is: 404, page not found.

Exercise - It's good for your brain

Exercise is good for your brain - see the article.