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Brain drain or brain circulation?

Brain drain or brain circulation? A World Bank publication. Diaspora Networks and the International Migration of Skills: How Countries Can Draw on Their Talent Abroad.

University partnerships can play a massive role in brain circulation! Career pathways back home are the key to avoiding brain drain.

Neil Turok: 2008 TED Prize wish: An African Einstein

An inspirational call for all educators everywhere!

BarCamp Scotland 2008

BarCamp is back in Edinburgh on 2nd Febraury 2008. The first Scottish BarCamp a year back was a truly inspirational event & this years looks all round bigger, stronger & even more supported.

Some cut n’ pasted details:

BarCamp Scotland will be held on Saturday the 2nd of February 2008 from 10.00 to 21.00 GMT in the Concourse of the Appleton Tower at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The night before on Friday, the 1st of February, BarCampScotland will be launch with a cocktail party and presentations on "Digital Arts, Sound Design and Media" in the Alison House in the School of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. BarCamp Scotland will start at 18.00 on Friday and end at 21.00.

Friday night will be "Digital Arts and Media"; Saturday's theme will be "Web 2.0, Social Networking (Facebook especially), The Intersection of Arts and Informatics, The Intersection of Cleantech and Information Technology, Mobile applications, Open Innnovation, Software as a Service, Consumer robotics applications, Educational Software, eLearning, Web 3.0 and Virtual Worlds and Environments".

Sign up at http://barcamp.org/BarCampScotland2008

educa berlin 2007

The more I work with colleagues from around the world, the more I see common challenges in online learning. The session on eL in development cooperation covered some excellent monitoring and evaluation issues.  

Now looking forward to the plenary from Sian Bayne on Virtual worlds in education 

JISC Conference 2007

Top networking and some useful presentations....

Especially Tom Loosemore's candid talk about BBC 2.0 and their 15 Web Principles. I wonder how this list should be adapted for an HE context.

The JISC Infonet Camel Project have some excellent ideas for partnerships for sharing knowledge and practice in e-learning adapted from collaborative visiting networks of South American farmers. Also had a useful chat with Seb Schmoller from ALT about sharing practice for large scale international distance learning.

I liked the HEFCE mention of the need for the sector to get on with High Quality and Mass Education.

The session on lifelong learning exclusively focused on vocational skills and people entering the workforce. The locus in the lifelong learning sector is heavily orientated towards the needs of vocational workers and not people who contribute to the knowledge economy. The UK government commissioned Leitch Review of Skills, Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills suggests that the lifelong learning debate be wider.

The JISC eL Pedagogy Programme is still turning out practical tips on teaching and learning online, but perhaps focusing too much on early adpoters and rather missing the rest of humanity.

There is a whole load of commentry and other stuff from the event on the JISC website.

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