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Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Simple Video Editing for beginners, on the site Embedding Open Educational Resources 2 weeks, 6 days ago

So you want a video based OER?

Team Six decided to make a video recording of the first workshop, partly to keep a record of the event, but also to gain some experience of using video in the production of OERs. […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Copyright and Licensing workshop, on the site Embedding Open Educational Resources 4 weeks ago

Here are some useful clips from the first workshop team six ran on Copyright and Licensing issues.

Part 1 Copyright for beginners (Transcript) (MS Word doc)

Part 2 (Transcript) (MS Word doc)

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Student play, on the site julian 2 months ago

I was asked to record a student play as part of the University’s Festival of Teaching and Learning. I’ve never had to do that before, so here, for your edification and delectation is a presentation of the Chicken […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Research Roadshow, Lincoln,, on the site julian 2 months ago

Last week I attended a useful “Research Roadshow”, and I thought it might help to write a few brief notes. We started with an overview of the Research Excellence Framework from Andrew Atherton, who set out the […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Festival of Teaching and Learning 2012 programme, on the site Centre for Educational Research and Development 2 months, 1 week ago

A draft programme for CERD’s annual Festival of Teaching and Learning has now been published. Please note that times and venues for some events have not yet been confirmed.

Draft programme

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Education in Lincolnshire: What does the future hold?, on the site Centre for Educational Research and Development 2 months, 2 weeks ago

A free conference for parents, governors and teachers, sponsored by the Centre for Educational Research & Development. University of Lincoln
No booking required
Education reforms nationally and locally are […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, OER exercises, on the site Embedding Open Educational Resources 2 months, 3 weeks ago

As promised I thought I’d upload some of the exercises we did in the workshop on the 22nd, but this time with some commentary on the resources

1) University of Salford Postgraduate Studies Team Blog

This a v […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Notes on Freire, Pedagogy of the oppressed chapter 1, on the site julian 2 months, 3 weeks ago

For a reading group at our forthcoming study school we’ve asked the students to write a half page summary of chapter 1 of Paolo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. But as I don’t believe in asking students to do […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Team Six First meeting, on the site Embedding Open Educational Resources 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Report of Team 6 initial meeting 1st February 2012

Present: Julian Beckton (JB), Joss Winn (JW) Paul Stainthorp (PS) and Jamie Mahoney (JM)

Project Establishment: Team meetings

We agreed we would hold […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Threshold Standards for the VLE?, on the site julian 4 months ago

Durham Conference blog post, part 3

As promised, here’s the last blog post from Durham, but in some ways the most controversial. There was a panel debate at the end of the first day on whether institutions s […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Mobile, Open Learning: What are Blackboard users doing?, on the site julian 4 months ago

Durham Conference Blog post Part 2

As I said in the last post, a great deal of the annual Durham Blackboard Conference is taken up, not unreasonably, by presentations from users. These are particularly […]

Julian Beckton wrote a new post, Trojan Horses and Openness. , on the site julian 4 months ago

Durham Blackboard User’s Conference

In what has become something of a new year ritual for me, I took myself off to the wonderful little city of Durham (A bit likeLincoln, but with a much more im […]

Julian Beckton commented on the blog post VLE data 5 months, 1 week ago

Thanks Raad (and other commenters) – I’m well aware of the limitations of the data set. (I just can’t resist playing with data!) In any case I suspect getting an accurate picture, especially one that reflects institutions that are using multiple VLE’s and those that aren’t using any specific product but combining various tools to [...]

Julian Beckton commented on the blog post VLE data 5 months, 2 weeks ago

That’s a fair point of course, and I do agree there’s a need for a deeper study, ideally running over a few years. I am thinking about an appropriate methodology for doing just such a study, that would take into account multiple VLE’s and indeed institutions that don’t use a VLE at all. Although I [...]

Julian Beckton wrote a new blog post: VLE data 5 months, 2 weeks ago

First, I’d better come clean. This data isn’t mine – it’s from a publicly available spreadsheet produced by Matt Lingard, and you can get the full set at

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au_thP0JDFvidHA4WGYwbFpUTmh4Z3RjSVQzQTViaGc&hl=en_US#gid=0

and many thanks to him for doing that.

Following on from my last post, I thought it might…

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Julian Beckton wrote a new blog post: The Politics of Blackboard. 5 months, 2 weeks ago

We’re developing a bit of a tradition of “thinking aloud” here at Lincoln,meaning ruminating on an issue in a public forum, to kick start debates on research ideas, and this post is part of that. It shouldn’t be taken as a definitive proposal, just something that I’m thinking about. Anyway, I’ve been reading a fascinating book [...]

Julian Beckton commented on the blog post Blackboard v Moodle (Part 2) 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks Gavin – that’s useful to know.

Julian Beckton commented on the blog post Blackboard v Moodle (Part 2) 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the comment, Nick As far as I know, no-one is looking seriously at any alternatives at the moment. If we do want to bring about an effective change, I think we should be looking now, and be designing a few pilot projects with some other systems. Come to think of it, that would [...]

Julian Beckton wrote a new blog post: Blackboard v Moodle (Part 2) 5 months, 3 weeks ago

A few weeks ago I posted a comparison of what have become the two leading VLEs in UK higher education, namely Blackboard and Moodle. I don’t want to get into arguments about which is “best” here because any system is only ever as good as its users. We have some excellent Blackboard sites across the [...]