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Today, was day one of the 2017 ALT Winter Conference (#altc) and I was supposed to chair the 10:00 am session “The Great Sussex Podblast” to have been delivered by Pete Sparx, George Robinson and Tab Betts from Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the University of Sussex. Unfortunately, problems with the Conference Webcasting platform (Blackboard Collaborate Ultra) and it’s back up (Blackboard Collaborate Classic) meant that the session had to be cancelled....

Though signed up to the EdX Course in good time, I’ve only just today, already half-way through week 2, gotten around to exploring the resources and activities for Week 1 of George Siemens’ and David Wiley’s (or is the attribution the other way round) open course on an Introduction to Open Education (hashtag #OpenEdMOOC). On first viewing, the structure is interesting. The course is available as an xMOOC (with the possibility of an optional certification) on the EdX platform....

Today is Ada Lovelace Day - an annual celebration of women in STEM. To mark the occasion I used Storify to make a personal curation of the tweets and blog posts that I liked on #AdaLovelaceDay 2017 (#ALD17) https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/917726864491335680

A big news story today was the QAA’s publication of advice for universities on how to combat contract cheating. I made a Twitter moment: https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/917333938774913025

Important thread on work patterns in academia. https://twitter.com/neuroimm/status/917140521524645900 I recommend that you read the whole thread! Perhaps it reflects the US experience more than the UK, but I think the pendulum might be swinging this way in the UK too. One of the replies https://twitter.com/igordownunder/status/916749458016260097 prompted this response from the Times Higher’s Phil Baty https://twitter.com/phil_baty/status/917278269669560320 What do you think?