by Cameron Nichol | Sep 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
From my experience this is what you get with MOOCs as currently presented A bundle of freely available automated online courseware Usually with a time release Maybe with a discussion, it may be minimally moderated, but not effectively moderated. Maybe it has peer...
by Cameron Nichol | Jul 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
The argument used to be despite the rise of digital e-readers, like the Sony, Kobo and Kindle, that students wanted paper texts not e-texts The increasing acceptance of the ipad started to move opinion, which increased as Apple targeted schools and facilitated deals...
by Cameron Nichol | Jul 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The are a few ‘free’ ebook organizations around providing a range of models. Bookboon has an ads model which appears to working. The quality looks OK. The main limitation is students have to go to the site to get the book, you’re not allowed to...
by Cameron Nichol | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
I posted Audrey Waters 2012 Trends article on MOOCs a while ago – here another one. Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: The Battle to Open Textbooks “..despite all the hype about “revolutionizing” the textbook, faculty and students are still slow to adopt digital...
by Cameron Nichol | Apr 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Will Work for Beer A 2009 US study suggests that full-time students who are working fewer than 20 hours a week may, in fact, have a higher grade point average than their jobless peers. And, this is mainly for “beer money” or other non-tuition expenses....
by Cameron Nichol | Jan 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of our academics wanted to calculate the difference between to columns of dates based on the year. Easy I said, we’ll split the date columns so the years are in separate columns. You can do a simple =A1-B1 to get your result. It is almost that easy, there...
