http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org A Blended Learning Project Blog Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:45:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Prof Drummond Bone recent report on changes in the market for international students, International issues in Higher Education, predicts that the current market model UK HEIs operate with is unsustainable and we will have increasing difficulty attracting international students to study here. The report identifies two main reasons for this. Firstly, ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2009/01/23/internationalisation-compete-or-collaborate/ Having read Part-time Study in Higher Education by Prof. Christine King it seems that most students, enrolled as full-time or part-time, are actually engaged in part-time study to some degree or other. The distinction between full-time and part-time study, in practice, is breaking down. FT students are increasingly working part-time to fund their studies ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/31/part-time-students-and-part-time-study/ The Teaching and Learning Research Programme TLRP has just published its commentary on education and Web 2.0 technologies Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning. Despite valuable early contributions to the web 2.0, much of the discussion within the education community has been speculative. This Commentary sets out to ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/22/education-20-designing-the-web-for-teaching-and-learning/ Reading the Universities UK paper on demographic changes helped clarify for me the choices available to Russell Group universities to the threats and challenges it identifies. One of the possible consequences of the increasing diversity of student groups and needs - adult work-based, returning learners, part-time, individual life long learners, ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/21/responding-to-diverse-groups-of-learners/ A slightly more detailed summary of  Paul Ramsden's report, Teaching and the Student Experience, can be found on the wiki that supports this blog (http://sites.google.com/site/hefutures/teaching-and-the-student-experience). This post is my immediate response to a reading of the report.  I found the report very interesting and useful. There seems, to me at least, to be some contradictions between the ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/19/teaching-and-the-student-experience/ I haven't yet put together a coherent reaction to this report, but others have. Some important points are recorded here.  DIUS Review of HE - Online Innovation in Higher Education 18th November 2008, 02:28 pm by Sarah Bartlett. In this post Sarah feels "the nub of this report is the ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/12/reactions-to-on-line-higher-education-learning/ The focus of this project is the development of e-learning within a blended learning approach and on the student experience. To this end a starting point is a review of all the discussion reports listed on the About this project page and a summary of each that tries to identify ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/11/summary-on-line-higher-education-learning/ The purpose of this project is to focus particularly on the development of blended and technology enhanced learning and the student experience. However, it is clear that these topics cannot be understood and policies cannot be designed without detailed reference to the other discussion topics - for instance part-time study, ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/10/setting-up-the-blog-wiki/ Welcome to the JISC Involve blog I will be using to report and reflect upon my forthcoming sabbatical which will be spent on researching and developing a potential strategy for meeting the challenges and opportunities for higher education over the next two decades. Th eproject will focus how these may impact ... http://TerryWassall.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/07/hello-world/