#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
On Thursday I am presenting at BETT13 on “Making the Cloud work for you”, with a subtitle of “institutional risk and governance”. My presentation is here: These are my notes for those slides, which are a mix of a…
It is interesting that the drive to MOOC-ify both the forms of (higher) education and the idea of pedagogy, has quickly forked to the idea of a Bill of Rights for Learners. Downes has already noted that “if you ask…
I was asked to provide a prediction for HE policy in 2013. Then nothing happened. So I thought I’d post my predictions here. This is what I wrote… “I know nothing about policy. All I know is activism as a…
I I’ve been trying to develop an argument that the development of innovations like MOOCs, learning analytics, personal learning networks etc. are a form of structural adjustment of higher education. In previous posts I have argued that MOOCs and other…
In the Economic and Social Manuscripts Marx described how by developing the body of the factory, or machinery organised into a system with labour subsumed under that system, capitalists worked: to annex labour-power inside machinery that freed them from the…
I Mike Neary, in a recent article on Teaching Politically, quotes the Joint Declaration of the Knowledge Liberation Front that emerged from a meeting in Paris in 2011. The Declaration points out the struggle against the financialisation and corporatisation of…
This year I have written increasingly about the following issues. The mechanisms through which higher education as a previously socialised or social good has been marketised, in order that value can be extracted from it. The mechanisms that inscribe the…
I In analyses of the circuits and cycles of capitalism, interpretations of crises underpin our individual and collective responses to them. In classical interpretations, overproduction/under-consumption or the tendency of the rate of profit to fall have dominated discussions of what…
Yesterday, Brian Lamb tweeted that: “I inexplicably find debates on CC-NC fascinating now… But I need a clearer sense on what “enclosure” means in practice, not just theory.” The educational technology field is rife with emergent discussions of the connections…
I presented earlier today at the London Festival of Education. I blogged what I intended to say here. What I wish I had said is given below. FIRST. On care: one might define care as a positive perception of assistance…