Microsoft Kinect
Lee Scott, an Academic Evangelist within the Developer and Platform Evangelism ‘DPE’ Group at Microsoft UK discussed the Microsoft Kinect within teaching, learning and research at FOTE11. Since its...
View ArticleStudent Expectations
At FOTE11 Emily-Ann Nash of the NUS Higher Education Committee explored how students have differing expectations and motivations of higher education and how they may change in light of an increase in...
View ArticleMaking it rich and personal: The personal path to institutional learning...
At FOTE11 Dr Su White, University of Southampton looks at how the world is changing and universities must respond to students’ needs and expectations in agile and effective ways. Learners enter...
View ArticleThe Student is Broke!
Andrew Bollington, Chief Operating Officer for the University of London International Programmes looks at the changes in higher education funding that have re-written the rule book , with the full...
View ArticleSocial media and Employability: The age of sharing and ‘publicness’
Sue Beckingham of Sheffield Hallam University discusses how our graduates of tomorrow face an increasingly competitive job market. Competing for jobs will no longer be confined to the communication...
View ArticleNick Skelton: Pervasive Media and Education
” Why do you want to study at Bristol?” “Because the city looked cool on Skins.” - overheard at open day, September 2011. Why did you choose to study at one university over another? Go on, be honest…...
View ArticleThe CIO and finding the future (eco-system) of education
Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Ph.D (Chemistry) is a research director in Gartner Research and his FOTE11 talk takes the vantage point of the CIO who is expected to navigate the tsunami of technology and...
View ArticlePervasive Media in Education
Nick Skelton is Assistant Director of IT Services (Infrastructure) at the University of Bristol and in his FOTE11 talk looked at: What do students actually expect from University? One long party? To...
View ArticleStudent Analytics for Success
Cailean Hargrave of IBM at FOTE11 discussed that, although investment in education has steadily risen over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding rise in student attainment levels. Students...
View ArticleThe student as the agent of change
At FOTE11 James Clay from Gloucestershire College discusses that in many institutions the structures, processes and procedures we have in place are there for many reasons; these may be for security,...
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