I enjoyed reading this post on a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, called: What Can Angry Birds Teach Us About Universal Design for Instruction? It gives a simple checklist of what makes this mobile game such a success: Angry Birds involves practice without penalty. Angry Birds offers the opportunity for constant feedback. Angry Birds inherently […] Lire la suite

Sorry for the silence, I am taking some time off with my family. I’ll be back in the Fall. Happy summer to all! Lire la suite

I just finished reading The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser. It offeres a very interesting exploration into using various search tools and how we find the information that is central to our daily lives. His main argument has to do with how “filters bubbles” emerge from the algorithms […] Lire la suite

An interesting read, this post about the Open Repository conference in Edinburg. there is much talk of including raw data in IRs: Just about everyone was discussing RDM, or Research Data Management. It has become clear that institutional repositories must not only manage scholarly publications, but the data that was created through observation and experimentation […] Lire la suite

“Pssst… you may want to check out Google’s Free classes called Power Searcher…” said my colleague’s email. Although I know, use and teach many of Google’s advanced features, I could not resist to test-drive their online learning platform and initiative. In a quick take, the site is streamlined and the tone is consensual, unscripted yet […] Lire la suite

this article from the Library Journal provides interesting insight into creating a copyright team. Lire la suite

UNESCO releases Paris Open Education Resources (OER) Declaration: OERs are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an open license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution. UNESCO has long been a champion of OERs and continues to promote them through its Education, and Communication and Information […] Lire la suite

An interesting read : this post on a Chronicle of Higher Education blog about comics in the classroom : Last week many of us here at ProfHacker traveled out to George Mason University for THATCamp CHNM. I proposed a session on comics, and lots of great resources came out of the conversation as well as ideas about […] Lire la suite

I just finished reading Clay Johnson’s book called The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption. The author provides for a light and interesting read, somewhere between a personal account, a self-help book and a deeper analysis of information consumption. I highly recommend it to anyone working on information literacy. My favorite quote comes at […] Lire la suite

From The Guardian’s Higher Education blog, comes this post called Branding in higher education – just how feasible is distinctiveness? by Eliza Anyangwe. At last week’s CASE Europe conference on distinctiveness in higher education, co-hosted by the Distinct Project, it quickly became clear that universities are in a bit of a pickle: they have to […] Lire la suite