Minute Mendeley - Videos to Help you Reference Better

At ScHARR we teach all of our students the excellent and freely available Mendeley reference management software. As previously mentioned we've also taught students in other faculties and several 100s of students down the line we've not had too many complaints, well nothing we cannot rectify. The response from our students, who are mostly International has been overwhelmingly positive - we think it is a real game changer. Mendeley is a superb piece of software that not only manages your references, cites as you write and creates bibliographies, but it is a social network, a database of references and a place for collaboration. To help all of our students, I have made a few short informal videos, under the banner 'Minute Mendeley' - sadly the hope of making these videos in just a minute were short-lived, so in reality they should be called Minute and 40 Seconds Mendeley, but it just doesn't roll of the tongue, does it? I've also added other official Mendeley videos, so virtually everything you wanted to know about Mendeley is here in one place. 

Here is one of the videos below on annotating PDFs online, for more go to the Minute Mendeley website.

https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/minute-mendeley/minute-mendeley-videos

Learning and Teaching Conference: MOOC Experiences

I attended yesterday's Learning and Teaching Conference at The University of Sheffield and presented 'Experiences from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how the MOOC could potentially increase diversity, social inclusion & learner engagement' in the exhibition space.

Where possible I try to make my work freely available under a Creative Commons Licence (more about this in future posts). Consequently, my notes are available on my own blog. The following is an extract, including my Slideshare hosted presentation.

Background

There is currently much interest and excitement at the emergence of an educational approach commonly termed the ‘Massive Open Online Course’ or MOOC. These MOOCs are truly global in their reach, and can be massive with tens of thousands of participants. Whilst the approach is very much in its infancy the concept has gained traction in a short time and is developing and evolving almost on a month/weekly/(or even) daily basis. For many people much of their understanding about MOOCs will have been gained from reading about them in the traditional media.

I have participated in several MOOCs and wanted to present my experiences to the conference, and allow delegates to consider the positives that MOOCs could offer in and of themselves, but also how lessons can be learned to potentially improve on-campus courses.

Mooc - L&T conference 2013 from markuos

by Mark Morley