October 13, 2008
We have got to the stage in our project where we are putting together papers for conferences and publications. As a team, we have had some interesting discussions about how to credit authorship. I am interested to hear what other teams do. My personal preference would have been to author the work as the project team, ie AWESOME and ...
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September 16, 2008
AWESOME Presentation to the Science and Innovations Minister (!) AWESOME was chosen amongst the few posters/demos to show to Ian Pearson, the Minister of Science and Innovation. Melissa did a great job showing the minister what an exciting project we have. He seemed to understand and asked interesting questions. Sirisha and I were also there to offer support ...
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September 16, 2008
We are now in the second phase of trialling the AWESOME-Dissertation Environment (ADE). The first trial was in July with a small group of postgraduate students in the School of Education at Leeds. This was mainly to test the usability but the students responded with enthusiasm despite some initial problems. The second trial which is now in progress with ...
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August 15, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS STAFF AND DEPARTMENTAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT (SDDU) SENIOR ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (full-time) University Grade 8 Job Ref 212049 Closing date Wednesday 17 September 2008. Interviews Friday 17 October 2008. Full details at Outline information below. Working closely with key stakeholders across the University, including academic and professional staff from all nine faculties and a range ...
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July 28, 2008
Just wondering whether people would routinely offer an incentive to people who have participated in their data collection in some way, and if so, what sort of incentive you could consider appropriate. Recently, I have received two very handsome incentives - one cash, one a material object - but in each case I didn't know I would receive anything beforehand. On one project ...
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April 21, 2008
Vania Dimitrova and Lydia Llau from Computer Science here at University of Leeds organised a lunchtime meeting on Friday 18th April with Janet Finlay and colleagues from Leeds Met to talk to each other about our respective projects and scope for linkage across them, and they also brought in colleagues from the CETL Active Learning In Computing and from ...
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March 08, 2008
to have a Day of Awesomeness, but it is fun and as the Leeds Awesome teamhave a project meeting on Monday march 10th, we will incorporate a suitable way to celebrate 'our' day. It will involve chocolate. Awesome chocolate, of ...
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February 29, 2008
I am concerned to see job adverts going out on lists which have titles like 'senior e-learning consultant' with salary bands like £25,134 - £32,796 a year. How will there ever be career path and progression for learning technologists and e-learning specialists in HE if these words are used without some link to the pay scales of senior lecturers? Am ...
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February 18, 2008
We are currently advertising for 2 Research Assistant Posts, to support the Awesome Dissertation Environment project. One post is dedicated to the technology, the other to the pedagogy. If you know people who might be interested - if you ARE the people who might be interested... - please have a look and contact myself or Vania if you have questions. ...
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February 04, 2008
Well, sort of... Because the JISC does not recognise the apostrophe in my surname in e-mails I am switching my Emerge/JISC contact e-mail to: cedrko@leeds.ac.uk but I do not wish to be known as Cedric, okay? ...
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