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Is it acceptable for a student of the Social Sciences to progress through his/her study without once citing a source found outside of the Library? If the education we provide is with the goal to create knowledge workers who can engage in a career in the current landscape of information and communication technologies, then I would conclude it is unacceptable.
Academic Digital Literacy 
Videolectures; pros and cons I’ve been working with videolectures for four and a half years now, so maybe a bit of reflection is a good thing! Below is a list of the good, the bad and the ugly regarding speakers on screen.
Facebook in Higher Education 
Weblectures user meeting 
When did slave labor become acceptable? 
Academic Digital Literacy
Videolectures; pros and cons
I’ve been working with videolectures for four and a half years now, so maybe a bit of reflection is a good thing! Below is a list of the good, the bad and the ugly regarding speakers on screen.
Facebook in Higher Education
Last Wednesday I was at a seminar on social media in education, organized by the Social Media Club Amsterdam (SMCadam). Wolter Mooi, a Professor of Pathology at the VUMC, shared his experience with applying social media in his Bachelor class. In 2010 he created a facebook profile and he now has 1004 ‘friends’.
He uses his facebook profile to decrease the distance between him and his students. He does this in a balanced fashion, no flooding of the status stream with inconsequentials but once in a while a witty reflection on his personal life, a response to a BBC documentary on labor clinics in Sierra Leone and sharing interesting readings relevant to the course. By doing so he
Weblectures user meeting
I spent my 7th of February hanging out with my brothers in arms in the weblecture scene. The day started with Werner Degger giving a general overview of the state of weblectures at the University of Amsterdam. He stated that the main reasons for using weblectures are to make studying easier and to raise the image of the university. Weblecture policy focuses on three workmodes: “Do it yourself”, “Do it together” and “we do it for you”. For each of these approaches to facilitating weblectures, the university aims to have the necessary infrastructure to support the staff and the teachers.
Social Media in Education
Oh dear, not another infographic. I am afraid so. But to introduce the topic, this is a pretty good one. For example, How schools are using Social Media:
- In the classroom
- School Pride
- Potential students
- Professional development
- General outreach
I hope it will have the desired effect I am looking for which is to help explain to some what a natural extension it is to use social media in education and learning processes.
And for those looking for a little more “meat” to this topic, why not try A literature review of the use of Web 2.0 tools in Higher Education. Happy reading!
Learning analytics, the (social) student feedback loop
I think the increased attention for learning analytics is valid. A lot of learning and teaching taking place today takes place in digital environments. It is implemented more structurally, which means patterns of behavior may have more meaning as they have increased context. Yes we should be leveraging the vast amount of data to better tailor education. But unless I missed something, I am afraid this year’s Horizon Report focusses heavily on what the educational institute can do with the data, and what the teachers can do with the data, and less so (or not at all) on what the students can do with the data.
