Category: education
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What are Open Educational Resources?
As the name suggests, Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available resources for learning and teaching, such as documents, videos, syllabi, software, and images. The advantage for educators is that these resources may be deposited, shared and re-used, thus saving time in creating new courses or updating existing methods (also, the promotion of the particular…
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Review: Seminar, Training, and Large Collaborative Projects, Lynne and Ray Siemens
I recently attended a seminar at UWS on Friday, 26 April 2013, led by Lynne and Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria in Canada. The event’s theme was collaboration in the humanities and, in particular, how digital humanities projects exemplify practical cooperation in broader societies. This is because digital humanities projects often cross disciplines,…
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Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive
Milkbar: The Everyday City and Globalisation was a project that sought to uncover some of the stories and concerns of some of the residents of Fitzroy, an inner-city Australian community. The videos assembled here are part of a larger project completed in October 2002 (more details below). Forty four people within the suburb were interviewed…
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The Author of History in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: Hypertext and the Historian
This is my 1998 Masters thesis completed at the University of Melbourne in 1998. This was my first serious inroads into the ‘digital humanities’ and some of the language within it now seems very dated (ie CD ROM). I was reflecting upon how I entered the digital humanities after being prompted in a stimulating article…
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Materials Library @ King’s
One of the more interesting research groups here at King’s. They do research into the materiality of flesh! Materials Library is an interdisciplinary collaborative team that make objects, events and exhibitions that foreground materiality. We are also engaged in both scientific research and artistic practices that explore the senso-aesthetics of materials. At the heart of…
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Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill)
Our aim at Gradfunding is to help postgraduate students of any nationality, academic background, or subject area fund any aspect of their studies- be it living expenses, fees, or research, travel, and conference costs. We are an advisory agency which specialises in winning grants from the voluntary sector (e.g. charities, foundations, and trusts). The voluntary…