Those who subscribe to the CETIS newsletter will receive the top posts of the month ranked by the total number of views they’ve had, while its nice to see what our audience find interesting sometimes we have our own personal favourites that we’d like to share. I asked CETIS staff if they wanted to share […]
eBooks in HE institutions – are we ready yet?
eBooks is one of technologies that many believe will have significant impact on education; and indeed will change the way of teaching and learning in schools and universities. In essence, both eBooks and printed books are very similar in as much as they allow people to do the most important thing – read a book. […]
A Seasonal Sociogram for Learning Analytics Research
SoLAR, the Society for Learning Analytics Research has recently made available a dataset covering research publications in learning analytics and educational data mining and issued the LAK Data Challenge, challenging the community to use the dataset to answer the question: What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense of this […]
Jisc Observatory report on Ebooks in Education
The joint CETIS and UKOLN Observatory has just published a report “Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education” written by James Clay. My CETIS colleague Li and I wrote the foreword for this report, which I’ve reproduced here but really you would be better going to the observatory and downloading the whole […]
A New Future for CETIS
After over a decade of supporting Jisc innovation and projects a new future beckons for CETIS. Following the Wilson review of Jisc, the organisation has confirmed that it will continue to provide “core” funding to CETIS until July 2013. Since 1998 CETIS has established a global reputation in the fields of educational technology and interoperability, […]
Future Learners, new Opportunities and Technology
The wider CETIS community has often appreciated meeting up, with others sharing the same “special interests”, in “SIG” meetings. That kind of meeting took place, including old “Portfolio” SIG participants, on 11th Dec in Nottingham, and many interesting points came up.
Relationship Management: Be transparent and sincere
We’ve already stated the importance of communication as the glue that binds the various stakeholders together in relationship management ( see Relationship Management: Communicate, communicate, communicate). In this post, we’ll be taking a look at the institution’s and management’s role in relationship management with regard to culture change. The key advice for management is to communicate, and be transparent and sincere, otherwise there will be resentment amongst staff.
Relationship Management: Communicate, communicate, communicate
This is the first in a series of posts based on the Compendium of Good Practice in Relationship Management in Higher and Further Education, written by myself and Lou McGill. The Compendium will be made available shortly, but I thought I’d post up a few samples to whet your appetite. This first post focuses on communication, which is at the very heart of relationship management and is linked strongly with both staff and student well-being.
Looking Inside the Box of Analytics and Business Intelligence Applications
To take technology and social process at face value is to risk failing to appreciate what they mean, do, and can do. Analytics and business intelligence applications or projects, in common with all technology supported innovations, are more likely to be successful if both technology and social spheres are better understood. I don’t mean to […]
The MOOC just got better!
Just one year ago, there was no Coursera. MOOCs can offer an agile solution that takes student needs into account. And now the MOOC has just got better.