The Q&A: Tim Berners-Lee: This is for everyone. Full Text Electronic Journal List.
Digital reading: Kindle kids. 02.12.11 | Felicity Wood "Miss Wood, Miss Wood, someone's spat on the Kobo" might not be the usual thing you would overhear during a market focus group, but then, this is not a usual market focus group.
Martin Davidson: International Skills Now Essential for Employability. The UK is one of the most globalised economies and societies in the world.
An internationally experienced and culturally adept workforce must therefore be even more crucial to our prosperity and growth than it is for others. At the British Council, we have provided international opportunities for people in the UK for over 75 years - through education, the English language and the arts - and we passionately believe that the ability to work effectively with people from different cultures is critical in the 21st century. So, it is notable that in 2010, while there were 370,000 international students in the UK, there were just 33,000 UK students overseas. While this is of course testament to the fantastic quality of our higher education institutions, we wanted to understand the reasons behind this gap.
We commissioned two reports to find out more about the choices students make and what businesses are looking for in UK school leavers and graduates. The research was eye-opening. X.minutes.at - a timer on any website. Facebook's most popular 'shared' news stories for 2011 revealed. The Internet and Higher Education, Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 1-78 (January 2012)
Social Media tools. Information overload wastes two weeks a year. Nearly two thirds of office workers surveyed also said the amount of data they receive during the course of a day was negatively affecting their job.
Mo Costandi, a developmental neurobiologist and consultant, said while the human brain was well adapted to processing information, it was the number of sources that people struggled with. He said: "These days we get information from multiple sources and trying to take that all in can be difficult. "Recently published research showed that multi-tasking places excessive demands on regions of the brain, so trying to process information from email, the internet, social networks and documents can be difficult to assimilate. " The research surveyed 2,000 British office workers. It showed that on average workers attended one meeting and made five telephone or conference calls a day.
Digital Literacy @ University of Worcester. JISC Inform / Issue 32 / Research and teaching. Competition for students is set to become fiercer as their fees form an increasingly important income stream – and with other funding streams dependent on universities’ research expertise, how can institutions maintain the balance?
JISC Inform looks at how involving students in the university’s research culture can benefit both sides of the desk. What is research-led teaching and what are the benefits? Research-led teaching can be understood in different ways – but the dominant one is where the results of a person’s research are applied in their teaching. The benefits include: allowing teachers to make use of the most up-to-date ideas on what might improve their teaching and hence their students’ learning – especially supporting students to become researchers and active learners. developing teachers’ abilities to critically evaluate the validity of current theories. encouraging teachers to become more experimental and innovative in trying out ideas that could improve their teaching.
Postmodern Times by Eric Felten. Nathancobb.co.uk. 40 Epic Marketing Insights From Google [Data] Ever needed a compelling, reliable stat to help make a point, round out a blog post, or make your ebook even more data-driven?
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Think Insights with Google, Google's new information and resource hub for marketers, has got you covered! Officially out of beta today, Google's new resource offers helpful tools, studies, trends, stats, and videos to give marketers the data they need when they need it. Use the Real-Time Insights Finder to gather information about your business' target audiences, or simply browse through the site's Facts & Stats. Pretty handy, huh? Social Marketing & PR 2.0. Fake websites, Spoof websites, science spoofs, commercial fake sites. Introduction to fake websites Librarians and educators need to be able to illustrate to students and users alike that websites cannot always be trusted to provide truthful and accurate data.
This page provides examples of websites that are full of lies, inaccuracies or false information - either for amusement or for more worrying reasons. The list does not include phishing sites however; these are intended to fool a person into believing that they are visiting a legitimate bank site for example; there are already plenty of links to these online already.
Fake websites - scientific and commercial All of the following websites are, to the best of my knowledge fake sites, spoof sites or parodies of 'real' sites. Sites are arranged in subject groupings, with what I consider to be the most credible examples at the top; hopefully this will help when you come to choose examples for yourself or students. This page contains examples of scientific and commercial sites. Digital Literacy in Higher Education.