Monthly Archives: December 2009

EduLinks: Roll on 2010!

Yes, it’s the final set of EduLinks until we see in the New Year.  If anything noteworthy happens between now and some point in January, I’ll link it then.  Merry Christmas to all the wonderful people and websites I link … Continue reading

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Attentive Multitasking

I’ve talked about attention and multitasking before.  But I’ve just been reading about a new study at Stanford University [PDF, 157Kb] about media multitasking that sheds further light on multitasking abilities. Researchers found that our response to how we multi-task … Continue reading

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Future of HE funding matters to everyone

With an independent review of HE funding under way, what better time for Universities UK to have a funding conference, Who Pays? What came out of today’s conference was quite worrying, given the number of speakers in favour of increasing … Continue reading

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Challenges of student engagement

Earlier today, I wrote an essay-length comment over at John Peart’s website. John made a keynote speech at the Quality Strategy Network’s Student Engagement Symposium on 9th December at Ashridge Business School and he kindly published the speech on his … Continue reading

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Information: Causing problems for Data & Knowledge

Apparently, ‘information’ is causing trouble. I found the following piece of text in an academic paper on institutional research, but thought it useful to point out here: “The distinction between data and information, on the one hand, and between information … Continue reading

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