Les Carr explains the moral high ground on open educational resources

In this video, taken in front of the Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Su White interviews Les Carr about why he asserts that there is a moral duty for teachers who create educational content to put that content in the public domain, rather than hoarding it in their institution.

Educational Podcasts

This 6-minute video provides a brief introduction to the educational use of podcasts, how to create them and the technology used.

La educational sociology y su incidencia en el desarrollo de la sociología de la educación.

Resumen tomado de la publicación

Assessment and Feedback for the CIP: educational issues

This 11-minute video focuses on how self and peer assessment could be used as an integral part of CIP modules, and discusses some innovative methods for assessing written work. The first link is to the native Panopto podcast, which requires the Silverlight player to be installed. The second link is the MP4 video version of the podcast, which should play on all PCs, Macs and suitable mobile devices. This share also includes links to the papers discussed in the video - these are also provided at the end of the script.

NETTLE Reference Framework for Educational Development, in English, Spanish and French

The framework was developed in response to feedback from partner institutions around Europe.

On the organisation of Educational Development Centres

NETTLE Project Publication

INFO2009 Educational Resources: Security

Contains visually-appealing and informative "infographics" containing descriptions of common security vulnerabilities and general information about security. Suitable for use in a blog post or printed out and on the wall in an educational area. Also contains video podcasts demonstrating common security exploits in realistic web systems, and offering practical advice on fixing them. Created by "Am and the Raging Otters".

INFO2009 Group 3, FlowerPower - Educational video about DRM

This video contains an overall description of DRM as an introduction, and a discussion about the controversy around DRM techniques.

CITE and educational transformation

Presentation given by Professor Hugh Davis to the University Strategic Research Group for the Digital Economy monthly lunch meeting on Monday 24 September 2012. This session provided an update on the evolution of the University Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education (CITE) in September 2012.

INFO2009 2012-13: An Educational Video on Augmented Reality by Group 8 - Team Infinity

An educational resource set on Augmented Reality and whether it really is "A Vision of Tomorrow". Our educational video takes the audience on a journey through the current uses of AR, then to the future and we also discusses legal and ethical issues towards the end.

Proceso de reestructuración y fortalecimiento institucional Asociación Santa Cruz

La Asociación Santa Cruz es una organización que lleva más de 17 años generando espacios de formación para niños, adolescentes y jóvenes. Los proyectos que ejecuta son programas auténticos para la juventud, atractivos para ellos y para quienes los forman (Entidades educativas y núcleos familiares). Por medio de la educación experiencial y las actividades al aire libre hemos encontrado la herramienta prefecta para formar de una manera actual y profunda. Los resultados del presente proceso se evidencian de la siguiente manera: a) estructuración de un organigrama funcional para la organización. b) Realización de los manuales de funciones y procedimientos de todos los trabajadores de la organización. c) Realización de la proyección financiera por parte del proyecto EKO Campos de verano. d) Análisis del mercado que permite una proyección fiable en ventas. Gracias al trabajo realizado en este proceso de mejora se entrega un plan de acción que potencializa la organización para que cumpliendo con todos los parámetros dados podamos generar una organización autosostenible que aumenta sus clientes anualmente en al menos un 20%, generando un superávit anual de hasta $200.000.000 en los primeros 5 años y de hasta $600.000.000 en los años 5 al 10. Gracias al proceso de mejora la asociación se convertirá en la organización Colombiana que más campos de verano residenciales realiza al año: 8 para el 2012. Es una asociación que puede auntosostenerse gracias a proyectos propios y no depende sino en un 20% de las donaciones que recibe. El medio de la educación no formal es una industria con un potencial muy grande en Colombia ya que es una oferta débil y pequeña para una demanda grande y con una necesidad fácil de identificar. Implementando este proceso de reestructuración la asociación tendrá la oportunidad de atender una población de alrededor de 300 personas para el 2012 y podrá acercarse a las 1.200 para el año 2022.

Educational/training situated e-learning

A small selection of the range of educational/training situated e-learning in Southampton Education School

Modification of personality variables through application of a psycho-educational program of full consciousness (mindfulness) in university students

This study examines the effects in university students of a psycho-educational program in full awareness (mindfulness) on certain personality variables. A quasi-experimental (group comparison) design with pretest and postest measurements was employed in an experimental (n = 26) and a control group (n = 27). Barratt impulsiveness Scale (BiS- 11), Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ), Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD), and the Profile of Mood States (POMS) were applied to experimental and control groups. The results show statistically significant changes in impulsivity variables, experiential avoidance, social avoidance, social anxiety, tension and fatigue when comparing the posttest mean scores of the groups.

Intervention strategies on teachers focused on creating meaningful educational environments for mathematical abilities development

This article describes an intervention process undertaken in a training program for preschool and first grade teachers from public schools in Cali, Colombia. The objective of this process is to provide a space for teachers to reflect on pedagogical practices which allow them to generate educational processes that foster children’s understanding of mathematical knowledge in the classroom. A set of support strategies was presented for helping teachers in the design, analysis and implementation of learning environments as meaningful educational spaces. Furthermore, participants engaged in an analysis of their own intervention modalities to identify which modalities facilitate the development of mathematical abilities in children. In order to ascertain the transformations in the teachers’ learning environments, the mathematical competences and cognitive processes underlying the activities proposed in the classroom, as well as teacher intervention modalities and the types of student participation in classroom activities were examined both before and after the intervention process. Transformations in the teachers’ conceptions about the children’s abilities and their own practices in teaching mathematics in the classroom were evidenced.

Monologue or Intercultural Dialogue Between Medical Systems? An Educational Challenge for Medical Sciences

Each medical cultural system constructs knowledge about health through specialization or interculturalism. The knowledge constructed through interculturalism has sought, mainly, to adapt the delivery of health care services to the users’ cultural referents. This emphasis has overlooked the opportunities embedded in the establishment of intercultural relationships between medical systems based on dialogue, especially in regard to the adjustment of the disciplinary boundaries of medical cultural systems that would allow the construction of new knowledge on health. This absence of dialogue has been determined by epistemological barriers inherent to every system as well as by social domination. This article presents some concepts related to cognition processes which encourage the reflection on the possibilities to overcome such barriers so that the health sciences may contribute to the effective implementation of the World Health Organization and the State’s recommendations on the matter.