Talis understands the growing importance of the Open Education movement and its potential impact on how education is accessed, assessed and certified.
Aimed at individuals or small groups, the Talis Incubator for Open Education provides angel funding and other forms of assistance for ideas and projects that have the potential to further the cause of Open Education through the use of technology. All we ask in return is that you donate or ‘open source’ the intellectual property generated back to the communities that could benefit most from your work.
We’ve heard a lot about the student perspective on social media, but this concise report is interesting because we see institutional concerns rise to the surface, despite concerns about the self-selection of respondents (all of whom are staff in UK universities).
The JADU Research Report An investigation into the challenges, application and benefits of social media [...]
The annual report, Learning on demand: Online education in the United States, 2009, presents particularly interesting findings on and insights into the relationship between online learning (defined as courses in which at least 80% of the course content is delivered online) and student retention, to higher education institutions for which retention is a key strategic [...]
This year, the emerging technologies highlighted by the 2010 Horizon report as being particularly valuable for higher education are:
Mobile computing – on the 12 month horizon
Despite obstacles such as privacy and classroom management, more and more educators are exploiting the possibilities of collaboration and communication using students’ own mobile devices. After all, students like the [...]
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