Author Nicholas Carr asks an important question; Is Google making us Stupid – important for the academic and for the learner – more and more people are googling and as well as the obvious information literacy implications Carr suggests there may be a more fundamental impact he writes “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self.” See his full article first published in The Atlantic July/August 2008, here
Filed Under (General) by elearning4bradford on 11-02-2009
We were given a wonderful welcome when we arrived at the Bharati Vidyapeeth University ( BVU). The staff and students made a really big effort to make us feel well-looked-after and we certainly did. Having been received by Prof. Dr. Shivajirao Kadam the VC of BVU and shown an impressive outline of the University’s achievements we were taken on a wonderful tour of the campus.
On Thursday morning we toured the Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports City, Balewadi sports complex used for the 2008 Youth Commonwealth Games. On Thursday evening we were joined by Member of Parliament Suresh Kalmadi.
Whistling Woods is an excellent venture providing full media and film production training for the industry most obviously the local Bollywood scene. I have done some good work with Chaityana CC to develop a Moodle solution for their student group which numbers about 400. I discussed the strategic approach to e-learning with John Lee Dean of WWI and our Principal Michele Sutton OBE, from this it became clear that further joint ventures might be possible. For instance Baljit Panesar and Trevor Griffiths from our Arts and Creative Media department are working on a student exchange programme.
After a very interesting tour of the facilities and some lunch we sat down and talked about the best way to deploy the solutions. The staff here at WWI used the Mac version and apart from some small LDAP issues which were soon overcome, the setting up of Moodle was pretty much hassle-free.
I look forward to seeing their progress in the coming months.
Filed Under (General) by elearning4bradford on 05-02-2009
Arriving in Mumbai was a wonderful experience. Have visited Whistling Woods at Filmcity; The Juice Academy and today Bharati Vidyapeeth University where we sign a Memorandum of Understanding there this evening.
