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Ethiopia children ‘master tablet PCs’

An interesting news item on Radio 4’s Today programme (31st October 2012) describes a ‘one tablet per child’ project in two villages in Ethiopia where children were each given a tablet PC, programmed in English.  Within a short space of

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Investigating the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER’s)

To put it simply… “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner.” (definition from OER Commons) And I’ve recently been involved with Debbie

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Does the use of Turnitin deter cheating?

An interesting discussion in the Times Higher.

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What’s the purpose of Education? – Join the debate

Purpos/ed: what’s the purpose of education? An online driven debate on the purpose of education. What they say: “We’re going to initiate the debate, grow the community and inform key decision makers about the outcome of this movement to improve

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#appswap app of the month – June 2016 – coming soon

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