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The Trip to Tipp!
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on May 16, 2013.
I’ve just attended the ICT education conference in Thurles, Ireland, affectionately known by the locals as the ‘Trip to Tipp’. I ran a one-day Learning Design workshop on Friday, with about 16 participants. There was lots of interaction and great discussions. The conference was held on Saturday with teachers [...]Technological transformations
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on May 15, 2013.
Every now and again a technology emerges that is transformative. There was the Internet of course, the iPhone, and my Mac book air. Each of these have transformed the way I do things. The latest for me is the iPad mini. I have had an iPad since September but somehow never really got into it, [...]Gráinne of Arabia
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on May 08, 2013.
I thought I would share my experience of being in Saudi Arabia recently. Some people on Facebook were deriding me for going, saying going was tantamount to supporting the regime and that we, in the West, should be boy cutting such countries. I disagree for two reasons. Firstly, how [...]The third international conference on quality assurance in post-secondary education
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on May 08, 2013.
I gave a keynote in Dammam, Saudi Arabia last week. It was an interesting conference with over 1000 delegates, mainly from across Saudi Arabia. The conference organizers had invited an impressive line up of international speakers. Here are some of the highlights Jim Cibulka started the conference off with a talk [...]What do you use your mobile for?
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on May 03, 2013.
Arianna Mazzeo from the University of Catalonia gave an interesting workshop recently for us at Leicester. The focus was on the ways in which people are using mobile phones these days. She had us working in two groups and asked us to draw a timeline to indicate how we [...]Reflections on the PELeCON conference
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on Apr 14, 2013.
I really enjoyed the PELeCON conference. I liked the format; in terms of the mix of themed sessions, interactive workshops and lots of keynotes. Unfortunately there were less people at the conference this year, which is a shame as it was excellent. It was good to meet up with old friends and to finally meet [...]The closing PELeCON conference keynote
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on Apr 14, 2013.
Donald Taylor, the James Bond of e-learning apparently ;-), gave the closing keynote at this year’s PELeCON conference. The title of his talk was ‘Does learning and development have a future?’ He began by asking us to think about how our roles have changes in the last five years [...]Creating a learnspace in your workplace
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on Apr 13, 2013.
One of this year’s PELeCON conference keynotes was my friend Joyce Seitzinger from Deakin University. This blog post is a summary of her talk, the slides are available online. She started by stating that winning a place for technology is easy, whereas winning people for technology is hard. The talk gave [...]Managing change – patterns and analytics
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on Apr 13, 2013.
One of the keynotes at this year’s PELeCON conference was Steve Warburton from Surry University. He had two themes: Pedagogical Patterns and Learning Analytics. He started by referencing Gartner’s technology acceptance curve and http://www.mooreslaw.org/. He stated that computing power is doubling every year. He recommended Ray Kurzweil’s book ‘The singularity is near’, which [...]Digital literacies session at the PELeCON conference
By Gráinne from e4innovation.com. Published on Apr 13, 2013.
One of the sessions I attended at this year’s PELeCON conference was on ‘Digital literacies and work placement’. The first speaker was Nadja Gagsi, who presented on the digital literacy work at Reading University as part of their JISC funded project. They used Beetham and Sharpe’s digital literacy framework. She outlined ten key [...]
