ERA objectives have stressed the importance of gender equality in research, at the three levels of fostering equality in scientific careers, achieving gender balance in decision making and integrating a gender dimension in research content. More...
The 2019 European Parliament Elections in the UK
The deadline for registering to vote in the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom is 7 May. EUA member Universities UK has put together some suggestions for promoting voter registration among students. More...
ELIA Academy 2019, 25-27 September 2019, Stuttgart
The ELIA Academy, co-hosted by Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, and State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, showcases innovative teaching and learning practices in higher arts education and bring together lecturers and students from Europe and beyond. More...
Freakonomics and Complexity
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Freakonomics and Complexity
Dave Pollard's review of Freakonomics by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner is worth a read. What I like is the discussion of complex (as opposed to merely complicated) systems and the need for pattern recognition. More...
Schools Need to Get Up to Speed
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Schools Need to Get Up to Speed
My own view is pretty much in line with this: "we should embrace our confrontation with nudity, sex, drugs, violence, and spam in an institutional context as a positive thing, an opportunity to teach and learn and grow". More...
An Overview of E-Portfolios
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Overview of E-Portfolios
Overview of e-portfolios with links to quite a number of examples. Dave Tosh (of elgg) comments, "These papers are starting to get very boring. It has a few example e-portfolios towards the end but there is nothing new here for those who have been following e-portfolios over the past couple of years... If you have never heard of e-portfolios give it a read but don't look to this paper for any new insight." In annoying PDF. More...
Yahoo!360 - Home
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Yahoo!360 - Home
Yahoo! 360 has opened up to external content, which is good. But does this mean, as Albert Delgado says, that "the 'walled garden' concept is finally and officially dead?" It's a step in the right direction. But I notice all my 'contacts' are people with Yahoo360 accounts - and there doesn't seem to be a way to create as a contact someone's Flickr account or Orkut account. More...
New Internet Literacies in the Classroom
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Internet Literacies in the Classroom
You will be able to breeze through these slides in five minutes or so, but do take the time to have a look. Will Richardson is able to put together nicely the ideas of new digital literacies and the read-write web. More...
European Training Village
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. European Training Village
The European Training Village has upgraded its portal. "News items, announcements, press releases, forthcoming events and information on important documents are available from the re-structured ETV News database." The site looks nice. More...
Next Generational Educational Software: Why We Need It and a Research Agenda to Get It
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Next Generational Educational Software: Why We Need It and a Research Agenda to Get It
The author outlines a need for tools that "allow exploration at multiple levels of detail and accomodate diverse learning styles." Sounds good, though readers may recognize the proposed 'clip models' as being very similar to learning objects. More...