It seemed like a simple idea back in September when I pitched it to the HEA Centre for Bioscience: an event aimed at the novice to moderate user of Web2.0 tools. After discussions, the outcome was the Enhancing Learning Through Web2.0 (#cfbweb2) event...

Last week the Association for Learning Technology published the guidelines for abstracts and for papers for the 2010 conference: ALT-C 2010: 'Into something rich and strange' - making sense of the sea-change. ALT-C 2010 will take place in Nottingham,...

...when we get sufficiently guilty about asking the undergraduates to map out their personal learning environments that we feel obliged to do ours too. Jo blogged about the evolution of her PLE yesterday, so here's mine, or at least, the best...

It's Google Docs day week month here at Casa Mia. I'm working with colleagues in Leeds and across the road on a series of documents relating to a meeting we are organizing for next week. At the same time, I'm participating in the altc2010 meeting I...

Abstract: Choosing good problems is essential for being a good scientist. But what is a good problem, and how do you choose one? The subject is not usually discussed explicitly within our profession. Scientists are expected to be smart enough to figure...