Open Doors, Open Minds on Storify

The Storify application has been used to save tweets, links and photographs from the Open Doors, Open Minds conference - check it out at  sfy.co/hJGP #storify #dmuodom #dmupbt

NMC Horizon Report on Higher Education 2013

The NMC Horizon Report provides an unbiased source of information to help education leaders, policy makers, and academics easily understand the key emerging technologies, and when they are likely to enter mainstream use and impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education.

The 2013 Higher Education report identifies the following technologies will impact on HE in the next half-decade:

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

• Flipped Classroom
• Massively Open Online Courses
• Mobile Apps
• Tablet Computing

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

• Augmented Reality
• Game-Based Learning
• The Internet of Things
• Learning Analytics

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

• 3D Printing
• Flexible Displays
• Next Generation Batteries
• Wearable Technology

Finalising the Workshop

Over the past few days we have been fitting face-to-face meetings and email consultations into what has proved to be a demanding week for most of us.  However, the Conference takes place tomorrow, so we've run the advance technology checks, printed off our handouts and updated our slides. 

Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Internet Services

Martin Hamilton has recently published a draft guide to Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Internet Services for Loughborough University.  Martin also links to a policy document developed at Loughborough last year on BYOD @ Lboro (Bring Your Own Device at Loughborough) which may be helpful for those of us grasping with the issues this raises.

For DMU staff and students, the CELT Team have already produced guidance on DMU Core Learning Technologies  and Using non-DMU technologies.

Augmented Reality in Education

Earlier today a webinar on Augmented Reality in Education was hosted by Team SCARLET  (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching) at the University of Manchester. The recorded webinar will appear on the Team SCARLET blog shortly. 

If Augmented Reality is new to you, you may wish to check out 7 Things You Should Know About Augmented Reality and this discussion on the Guardian Higher Education Network from February 2013: Augmented reality in education: teaching tool or passing trend?  

Social Media and Open Doors, Open Minds

Do follow us on Twitter @Pedagogology and use the hashtag #DMUPBT during our workshop

The general hashtag for the Conference is #DMUODOM

 

The full Conference schedule is on Lanyrd, the social conference directory: http://lanyrd.com/2013/odom/ 

Link to interesting article

A very interesting article from Gibbs and Simpson that addresses the impact of assessment and feedback on learning. Highly recommended to read for all the academic practitioners.