The use of a participant survey, administered at the outset of an online course, can provide information useful in the management of the learning environment and in its subsequent redesign. Such information can clarify participants’ prior experience,...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Stanford professor who pioneered praising kids for effort says we’ve totally missed the point Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 2016/01/25 We've probably all heard the sarcastic comments about giving every kid a prize for...

By David Matthews . Heif review to ‘look again’ at incentives for helping small businesses, says Hefce chief. Money universities receive to boost knowledge exchange could be linked to their work with small- and medium-sized businesses, the head of the...