Wikipedia and distance education
What does the world know about distance education? How do people learn about distance education? Well, the standard way of finding details of most topics seems to be Wikipedia, so I thought I’d take a...
View ArticleWikiWhat?
Since my last post on contributing to Wikipedia (and I worry that no-one has yet had a go at fixing ‘Open Learning‘), matters Wiki have again crossed my path. In fact it’s hard to ignore the Wiki...
View ArticleMore on WikiEducator
A couple of posts ago, when rabbiting on about Wikis, I mentioned WikiEducator, which has rapidly grown to become a leader among Wikis with an educational focus. In particular, its strong refrain is a...
View ArticleAcademic promotion: through teaching or research? … plus Wikipedia...
First, apologies for the long title for this post – it didn’t start out that way, but as I was writing I came across a serious error in Wikipedia, a timely reminder to treat it with caution. And given...
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Peering behind the Horizon
I’ve previously posted about the annual NMC Horizon Report, but hadn’t paid it close attention for a while. This year’s report came out earlier in the year, and I’ve just perused it – backwards,...
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