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Candidates to the 2015 EUNIS Board of Directors
Elections to the EUNIS Board of Directors will be held at the General Assembly during the EUNIS 2015 Congress (13:30, 11 June 2015, Abertay, Dundee, Scotland). The 2015 candidates to the Board of Directors are: Bas Cordewener (1957) works at Jisc in the UK as International Facilitator. The main part of his time Bas acts as Coordinator…
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UNIVERSITIC: IT Survey in Spanish and Latin America Universities
The knowledge society that Europe designed in Lisbon is based on a modern higher education system with innovative methods and resources. Universities that were pioneering in introducing computation and Internet for research have been walking fast to adopt information technology (IT) in three levels: teaching, management and government. In Spain, this evolution has sometimes lacked…
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TNC15: 15-18 June 2015, Porto, Portugal
The TNC15 Networking Conference is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference, with more than 650 participants attending this annual event. TNC brings together decision makers, managers, networking and collaboration specialists, and identity and access management experts from all major European networking and research organisations, universities, worldwide sister institutions, as well as industry…
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In the distance rise the clouds
In the tropical seas, in the so-called doldrums, sailors are aware that, when the clouds rise in the distance, they must rush to modify their sails before the storm. In recent months announcements have been made by Coursera, EdX as well as by some important American universities and MOOC business models are starting to emerge.…
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Report: Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA): a landscape review, by Gill Ferrell
“We look in more detail at the components of this life cycle later in this report: suffice it to say here that the effective management of assessment and feedback is central to the learning experience and encompasses a very wide spectrum of activity involving many different stakeholders. From an institutional perspective, ease of access to…
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Dutch HBO Benchmarking
IT BENCHMARK 2014 Dutch Higher ED Rens van der Vorst @Rensvandervorst “A benchmark is not about numbers. It is about a story that needs to be told” A few years ago I was blindsided by an IT benchmark that was presented by some high profile consultancy company to our board. The benchmark was sloppy, full…
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EMOOCs 2015: European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, May 18-20, Belgium
Organised by the Université catholique de Louvain and P.A.U. Education, the event aims to be an opportunity to gather European actors involved in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), from policy makers to practitioners to researchers. This conference is the follow-up of the EMOOCs 2014 Summit. The conference will be held in Mons, Belgium. Mons will…
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AlmaLaurea conference: “Graduates’ Social (Im)mobility and Territorial Mobility”, May 28, 2015, Italy
The Inter-university Consortium AlmaLaurea, in association with the University of Milano-Bicocca, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), is glad to invite you to the Conference: Graduates’ Social…
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Webinar: “A journey through the assessment and feedback landscape: from principles to effective practice”, May 20, 11.00 CEST
A new webinar “A journey through the assessment and feedback landscape: from principles to effective practice” is due on 20 May, 2015 at 11.00 CEST, as part of the TALOE webinar series “Talks on e-assessment and learning outcomes”. The lecturer will be Dr. Gill Ferrell, Consultant at Aspire and the E-learning Task Force Leader of…
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Much has been said
Much has been said about MOOCs in terms of technology. At the same time, surprisingly, MOOCs are quickly disappearing from the Gartner hype curve. But are MOOCs a technology? Why such a rapid disappearance? I have a very simple explanation: MOOCs are a means to learn and to acquire knowledge through already mature technologies but…
