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Multeversity - prelude to DEANZ

Today (Sunday or Monday - Monday here in New Zealand) seems an auspicious day and this seems an auspicious hemisphere (southern) in which to float a new concept.

This week at the DEANZ conference I shall be talking in a more public forum about the Multeversity - up to now this has only been in some online seminars and presentations to specific institutions and projects over the last few months.

The Multeversity (then called "Multiversity") started off life as an analytic container to bring together a lot of my work on virtual universities, colleges and schools over the last four years, but as I got into a number of related projects (OER, retention, funding, VLEs, etc) my former worries about the long-term health of the university sector began to surface again.

Re.ViCa wiki - recent updates

by Paul Bacsich, 25 October 2010

This regular posting provides information on what is new on the Re.ViCa wiki -  http://www.virtualcampuses.eu - on virtual campuses across the world.

The posting covers the period since 1 July 2010 from all the contributors to the wiki.

A really CAPITAL set of reports is released

by Paul Bacsich, 22 October 2010

(adapted from a posting to the ALT mail list by Ian Chowcat)

The final reports - and many other ones - from the "CAPITAL" project, commissioned by Becta to inform the previous Government's "Harnessing Technology"  strategy, are now released.

In 2008 Becta launched a programme of research to inform the future development of the then government's learning technology strategy, Harnessing Technology. The "Curriculum and Pedagogy" strand of this research, known as CAPITAL, was undertaken jointly by the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham and Sero Consulting.