Cakes: Learning Technology Blog

I’m writing what might well be the last post on Cakes. I’ve been posting on here since 2004, but feel a change might be in order - here’s w...

In the ‘ Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos ’ video on the Veritasium YouTube channel Derek Muller talks about his inter...

I asked this question on Quora , as I mentioned last year to see if people had any interesting experiences and insights in this area, and t...

Wikis were originally created as a very simple way to put information online, that all users could edit. They weren't designed to look p...

Currently Blackboard Learn contains a range of tools for creating and sharing resources, along with different types of communication tools. ...

Clickers (also known as Audience Response Systems, Classroom Communication Systems, and Personal Response Systems, among other things), are ...

Selected talks from ALT-C 2011 are now available on YouTube . To give you an idea of what might be interesting to you I've listed the ...

[ Session Notes ] I ran a new session on Wednesday about using web feeds to keep track of online information. This has made a big differen...

This guide is designed for those who have lots of resources to upload into Blackboard 9.1 in Learning Edge, for example those manually migra...

I finally got to play with a Livescribe pen last night, and the possibilities of using look interesting. The company describe it as a ‘sm...

We've talked about games before on this blog from the perspectives of using them as learning experiences , and learning environments . W...

Inspired by a recent conversation on the ALT-MEMBERS group on JISCMail, I've developed my list of all the Learning Technology related jo...

This year the SOLSTICE and CLTR conferences will be run as one , and the call for abstracts has gone out. The conference will focus on th...

There are various things that the term Personal Learning Environment (PLEs) can refer to, but any definition would look on them as student ...

I always enjoy reading the new edition of the Horizon report . It’s interesting to see what they think is close to being used in mainstream ...

As part of my Postgraduate Certificate I'm starting some research into what the barriers/obstacles are to the use of new technology in ...

We've just started using Blackboard 9.1 for teaching on a select few modules. I've collected links to the resources we've initia...

For those who are interested in the idea of technology and its relation to radical transformation of learning, I've read a couple intere...

I've been asked how to update files in Blackboard using WebDAV, and though it worth sharing the instructions more widely. We have not us...

I’ve just started following someone widely regarded as a bit of an e-learning guru: Stephen Downes .   The first email update I received i...