Simon’s Physics Education Blog

Some random verbiage about university level Physics teaching in the UK, with sometimes a particular bias to e-learning

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Podcasts in HE : disruptive, subversive, pointless or just plain misunderstood…?

June 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Came across this great quote on Tama’s eLearning blog talking about Stanford on iTunes:
 ”professional obligation of educators to embrace podcasting and use its disruptive potential for constructive opportunities.”
I have been toying with the idea of incorporating podcasts as additional learning resources in a large first year undergraduate Physics course I am course organiser for. But not, as an example, just [...]

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Tags: 1A course development · E is for..... · Education research

Electronic Voting Systems

June 5th, 2006 · No Comments

I am in the middle (well, not true actually… at the start of) writing an article on the use of electronic voting systems for use in large undergraduate lectures. There’s a ton of stuff out there at the moment about the application of this type of technique in HE.
Steve Draper’s page has a ton of [...]

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Tags: 1A course development · Education research