Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and re...

Most researchers and many engineers teach. Some take teaching as a chore; some actually like teaching; and some researchers like teaching so much as to do research about teaching, ... What I do want to talk about is an article which influe...

Young people from the wealthiest families across England are 11 times more likely to enter a university requiring high entry grades, the most academically selective, than those from the most disadvantaged.

So when anyone says too many youn...

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
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Britons in particular have an attitude problem to address as well.
"People easily say, 'I'm terrible at maths,' or 'I'm awful at numbers.' If you said that kind of thing in India people would look at you funny," she said.
"It's like saying, 'Oh, I can't

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,...
In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ...
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ...
Game Features
... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

Do you believe that:
In the (near) future, students will access their dig ...
That mobile apps should not try to duplicate the bro ...
So far, the mobilization of learning has been more h ...
It is with these questions in mind that I've been p

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & edu... the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has g... amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free.... enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and... Our whole m

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 studen... globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence... widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early... large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethink... instruction

After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest.

Librarian questions quality of a publishing house. Libra... criticizes said press on his personal blog. Two years la... current employer get sued for libel and damages in exces...

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate.
Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector?

Author discusses new book on the relationship between th... and the erosion of faculty rights.

Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England.
It will be included as one of the science options that c ...

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said.
Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ...
He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ...
He said it meant half of Great Britain

This autumn more than a million students are going to ta... experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher ...
Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education a ...
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ...
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Edinburgh University is to be the first UK institution t... influential US-based online university project.
Edinburgh is part of a major expansion in the Coursera p ...
The online platform was set up this year with content fr ...

Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th...
And analysis by England's higher education funding body ...
This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ...
The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ...
Analysis by

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
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