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Anyone interested in a longitudinal study embedding tiny GPS transmitters in to a cohort of teaspoons? A sure-fire Ig winner of a project.
Empirical enquiry in to empirical enquiry in to empirical enquiry. It's just evidence all the way down!
Discussing user testing of learning analytics tools. Wanted to ask how we could empirically drive process, just to be meta-meta-meta.
Also theory that they metamorphose in to wire coat hangers, but anyone who's seen coathangers entangled knows they breed.
Suspects so far: undiscovered hoarders' caches (e.g. housemates, teenage kids), inadvertent consignment to landfill.
Where do teaspoons *go*? I know people pinch them, but that only moves them around. What's the final teaspoon sink? How do they die?
John Naughton @jjn1 on open, free, online degrees and boiling frogs http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
RT @Research_in_LT: Research in Learning Technology's first new Issue (20.1) as an Open Access Journal - http://www.researchinlearningt... #openaccess @A_L_T
"Everything worked as it was supposed to." apart from the whole "building caught fire" bit, presumably.
Yowsers. Fire in my old chemistry dept at York! All people safe. http://www.york.ac.uk/communi...
Just submitted final copy of my paper on the Learning Analytics Cycle to #LAK12 http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/ and registered.
Univ applics: surprisingly little effect on school leavers and low SES, more worrying impact on mature students. Prob bad news for OU.
Better than I feared! #Birdwatch 6 jackdaws, 5 chaffinches, 3 crows, 2 blackbirds, 2 collared doves, blue tit, goldfinch, sparrow.
It's #Birdwatch time! So far have only seen two crows sitting watchfully aloof... and next door's cat sitting menacingly on the fence.
Happy 60th Birthday to @PeterTatchell http://www.petertatchell.net/ - may you be granted your hope to continue campaigning for another 30 years!
Wow. Nature spotting via Google StreetView: unusual moth identified via @iSpot_UK http://www.ispot.org.uk/node...
Gah. Have forgotten earphones for bus journey home. Makes my "Melvyn Bragg or Lady Gaga?" listening decision moot.
HE Bill delay @markmleach on @wonkhe points out that the vast majority of plans can be done without legislation http://www.wonkhe.com/2012...
Higher Education bill on to back burner; fewer new private universities? http://www.guardian.co.uk/educati...
MT @ispot_uk: Ever wondered what's inside King Alfred's Cakes? See http://www.ispot.org.uk/node... and then http://www.ispot.org.uk/node...
Further to my bit on the John Lewis University, @TimHarford weighs in on whether its an atractive model. http://timharford.com/2012...
I've had many moments when I've wished I had more spare time so I could study more of our courses, and am having another one now.
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