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		<title>Confessions of a PhD Student (11): “Things didn’t go as planned”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came back to Leicester after five months in Mexico, where I was doing fieldwork. Before my trip, I had a plan and a timetable. … Sometimes things don’t go as planned. This was one of those times. I wanted to do lots of things, but I needed the help of potential participants. I soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4296&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PiLC 2</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/pilc-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adobe Connect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lecture capture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to the end of the recording phase of the PiLC lecture capture project, and will move next semester into gathering and analysing the research data, most of it coming from the students. The recordings work out as follows: Chemistry (1st year u/g): 5 lectures @ 1 hour each Media and Communications (Masters module): [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4287&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Registration opens for Follow the Sun 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Sun 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futures for Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Siemens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilly Salmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grainne Conole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutlidiscplinary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning saw the opening of registration for Follow the Sun 2012, our annual 48 hour global online conference. In a bold and innovative move, registration is free for all delegates. We also welcome a new partner to FTS in the form of Athabasca University, who will join Beyond Distance Research Alliance and Australian Digital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4273&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Project: Manufacturing Pasts</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/new-project-manufacturing-pasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[#manufacturingpasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leicester]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing Pasts is a new JISC-funded project with the aim of creating open educational resources (OER) from artefacts of twentieth century British industrial history. Wow! This is a new sort of endeavour for Beyond Distance on a number of fronts. First, no animal acronym! Second, we are the junior partner, supporting our University of Leicester [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4262&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PiLC 1</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/pilc-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With my colleague Denise Sweeney of the Academic Practice Unit here at Leicester, I was recently awarded a small sum of money to run an internal project called Pilot  in Lecture Capture (PiLC). My interest in this area comes directly from my membership of the ViTAL SIG  and the excellent one-day conference on lecture capture (LC) organised by ALT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4244&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs: Star of Informal Learning</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-star-of-informal-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[desktop publishing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iTunes U]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pixar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad news today of the passing of Steve Jobs brings a deserved flurry of tributes and perspectives on his work. This morning, close to one-fifth of all Twitter comments had to do with Steve Jobs. American president Obama described Jobs as being “among the greatest of American innovators.” Besides the immense consumer appeal of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4220&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Openness and learning design</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/openness-and-learning-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carpe Diem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[design for openness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OER UKOER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last three years or so, the Carpe Diem learning design process has evolved &#8211; not only as a result of our own better understanding of it, but also as a consequence of the open educational resources (OER) agenda. Carpe Diem is a creative, hands-on learning design process for academic course teams. It builds institutional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4216&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual world training in 30 minutes</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/virtual-world-training-in-30-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paul Rudman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALT-C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual environments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting quesion arose from my ALT-C talk last week. It was basically &#8220;How can you use Second Life for teaching when it takes two hours to learn how to use it?&#8221; Which isn&#8217;t really a question, of course. It&#8217;s a statement. Along the lines of &#8220;It takes my students two hours to learn to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4186&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a PhD Student (10): “I question authorities”</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/confessions-of-a-phd-student-10-%e2%80%9ci-question-authorities%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[challenge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how some gurus in your field are never questioned? Have you ever noticed how some blindly accept as truth whatever authorities in your field say? Dr. X is the director of the Super Great Institute and a professor at a very important university. He has a PhD in Y and has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4178&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning about Unisa and South Africa</title>
		<link>http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/learning-about-unisa-and-south-africa-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bdra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kliptown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Zoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soweto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleagues and I are currently in Pretoria, South Africa, to attend Unisa’s Teaching and Learning Festival 2011. We have been asked to put on a week of workshops, due to start tomorrow (Monday) morning. Last Thursday and Friday we attended the festival symposium, which had excellent keynote papers from George Siemens, Gilly Salmon, Catherina [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyonddistance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6418061&amp;post=4160&amp;subd=beyonddistance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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