by admin | Apr 15, 2014 | Features, Graduate Study
Are MOOC’s the answer to the problems facing Higher Education or are they a threat that will damage learning at degree level? In this blog post we take a quick look at some of the prevailing issues. Massive Open Online courses (MOOC’s) have major issues to overcome. ...
by admin | Apr 8, 2014 | The Social Scholar
Tomorrow we welcome our next speaker to the Social Scholar seminar (see here for details). In anticipation, here is a summary, slides, and video from the March session. Myles Runham is Head of Online at the BBC Academy. As such it is his job to think about the...
by admin | Apr 3, 2014 | SAS Space Data Repository
Getting to grips with Open Access requires a step-change in the way we do things. In this post the new SAS-Space manager considers this issue and shares with us some of his thoughts as he took up the appointment in February. It would seem that Open Access is a process...
by admin | Apr 1, 2014 | The Social Scholar
On Wednesday 9 April 2014 we will be holding our next Social Scholar seminar (in room 243, Senate House). This week we will be looking at the Guardian newspapers’ Higher Education Network through the eyes of community journalist Claire Shaw (@clurshaw). For full...
by admin | Mar 25, 2014 | Graduate Study
For the last year the Institute of Historical Research has been working with the Humanities Research Institute (University of Sheffield) and the Department of History (University of Hull) to improve data management skills for History postgraduates and early career...
