There is now a section on the Sheffield University Library website about information literacy and employability, including short "testimonies from recent University of Sheffield graduates, reflecting on how information literacy skills learned at University are now helping them in their daily working lives." MORE >>

few years ago I was trying to learn how to draw using Betty Edwards' book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. read with interest Nancy White's excellent post the other day on Skills for Learning Professionals Part 2. Tags: learning As humans, we're innate patternmakers. So we don't draw the face that's in front of us. MORE >>

I’m presenting on Twitter and its uses for education and learning later today, as I noted in my last post. That may make Twitter, like blogs, best suited for personal learning environments (PLE) in academia, so that learners can use it for several courses and connect to their non-academic networks as well. So is the Internet. MORE >>

This post is in response to the Adidas Blog Carnival on a New Way of Working and Learning  and more specifically responding to the question, “What should a true learning organisation look like?” The real barrier to systemic change, such as becoming a learning organization, is command & control management. MORE >>

Just published, the lasted issue of the open access journal ELiSS - Enhancing Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2012) focuses on Digital Literacies. The editorial Digital literacy: digital maturity or digital bravery? Digital literacy UK Literacies Pedagogy academic sector MORE >>