The long awaited Department for Business Innovation &Skills research paper on “The Maturing of the MOOC” was published today and quotes the Cetis paper “MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education” by Li Yuan and Stephen Powell. The BIS paper by Stephen Haggard provides a wide ranging assessment of the state of MOOC developments internationally and in the UK. Haggard reviews the literature and commentary on MOOCs from a broad range of s...
Cetis staff were involved in a number of sessions at ALT-C 2013 this year. Over on her blog Sheila MacNeill reports on the "Small is beautiful; an antidote to Big Data" session which she ran with Stephen Powell. Sheila also writes about her invited speaker slot and her reflections on Moocs presentation.
http://howsheilaseesit.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/where-sheilas-been-seen-this-week-altc2013/
Congratulations to Sheila MacNeill who has become the ALT Learning Technologist of the Year 2013.
Sheila, Assistant Director at Cetis, was nominated for her outstanding achievement in promoting learning technologies to the wider UK education sector. Since 2004, Sheila has supported and advised on technical innovation in Jisc elearning programmes including digital literacies, distributed learning environments and curriculum design. Through her Cetis blog, ...
If you're going to this year's Association for Learning Technology conference in Nottingham next week, Cetis staff are involved in a couple of sessions:
Tuesday 10th September
13.55-14.55 Conference Suite 4 - Big Data long paper - Stephen Powell -"Small is Beautiful: an Antidote to Big Data"
Wednesday 11th September
13.45 - Conference Theatre - Invited speaker session - Sheila MacNeill - "My life as a sponge: soaking up and sowing seeds in th
“New” Cetis launched last month and it is with regret that we announce that two of our Learning Technology Advisors Mark Power and Lisa Corley have left us.
Mark has worked for Cetis for over a decade on a range of projects. He supported early Jisc programmes engaged in the creation and sharing of learning objects involving standards such as IMS Content Packaging. For the last few years, Mark focused on the area of mobile technologies and the web, deliver
