11,000 views and counting

This week the School of Science and Technology at the University of Northampton's teaching and learning  blog exceeded 11, 000 pages views, with it being viewed from many countries (see sample below). The blog was set up for: 

• member's of the School to disseminate their work (both internally to the school but also externally); 
• work of the research group - Science and Technology Research in Pedagogy (STRiPe)  based within the school to be more widely disseminated;
• postings that relate to teaching and learning activities in the school;
• postings relating to issues and news in teaching and learning outside of the school.

The top ten countries for viewers of the blog are shown below:

Pageviews by Countries

Entry	Pageviews
United States	104
France	73
United Kingdom	6
Russia	5
Australia	4
Sweden	4
Germany	3
Indonesia	2
Netherlands	2
Bulgaria	1

The most popular post in the last 30 days are:

• The Higher Education Academy Computing Update

  Taken from:  The Higher Education Academy Computing Update  by  Dr. Mark Ratcliffe News 1. Workshops for 2012/13 I’m sorry it has ta...
• Higher Education Academy STEM Blog posts

  Some useful information taken from the Higher Education Academy (HEA) STEM Blog:  http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/  on teaching and learni...
• New NILE sites and General SaGE guidance

  Taken from:  http://blogs.northampton.ac.uk/sage/2012/07/23/new-nile-sites-and-general-sage-guidance/  by Adel Gordon Following on from ...
• Annual Research Awards: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

  Taken from:  http://www.srhe.ac.uk/research/annual_research_awards.asp Applications Invited For New Research Funds 2012 The Societ...
• research and public engagement

  An extract that might be of interest for those involved in research and or public engagement  from  National Co-ordinating Centre for Publ...
• Doctoral funding Calls from the HEA

  Calls for HEA Doctoral Programme open today information taken from the HEA website  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/news/detail/2012/doctoral_p...
• Moving forward with Submitting and Grading Electronically (SAGE)

  Moving forward with SaGE by   ADEL   on   JUNE 22, 2012  ·  LEAVE A COMMENT  ·  in   GENERAL ,  STAFF GUIDANCE For your info...
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  Greenfoot and robots

  One of the criticism of the using robots for teaching problem solving is they are finite resources, there is a risk that some students will...
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  Personal View: On-line marking - two screens or one

  I was involved in an interesting conversation (well for me anyway) recently, a colleague was saying that they found on-line marking slower...
• Reflective report on the work of the HEA Summit Initiative/Project (2009-10) on Raising BME Attainment

  1. Abstract of Work of the Project Activities that were completed: ·          Establishing baseline data (see Appendix) ·          Data o...