#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 11 September 2009 I had a great conversation with a friend this morning about the JISC Greening ICT programme. I was asking him how he got interested in this whole area of work –…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 October 2009 The level 1 History module, “Presenting and re-presenting the past” is viewed as a shared project between staff and students. The intention is that students and staff will engage as colleagues…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 16 October 2009 I heard the excellent and inspiring Keri Facer at a JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery Programme event on Wednesday. There were three areas that made me sit up and think. The…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 4 November 2009 Having just listened to David Lammy’s interview about the new HE Framework, Higher Ambitions, set out by Lord Mandelson yesterday I’m left wondering how I feel, given that I work in…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 25 November 2009 Preamble: energy and education Joss Winn at the University of Lincoln recently blogged on What will Higher Education look like in a 2050 -80% +2c 450ppm world? In this post he…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 December 2009 Preamble In his recent blog posting on Oil and the story of energy, Joss Winn highlighted the work of David Mackay and his Five Energy Plans for Britain. Joss argued that…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 February 2010 Whiggish stories In the Whig Interpretation of History, Herbert Butterfield railed against the congratulatory nature of that strand of British History which prioritised narratives and analyses of human progress. In particular,…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 1 April 2010 I had a great day yesterday in Bolton at a JISC-sponsored Strategy Cascade event for institutional teams, which was focused upon “the wider debate around what technology can offer our institutions,…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 April 2010 I’ve been quite taken with the emerging discussions around openness and transparency in HE, the creation and management of open educational resources, and the concomitant lack of a discourse around open…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 May 2010 At the end of a thoughtful piece on the resistance to the closure of the Philosophy Department at Middlesex University, John Protevi, notes that we need to enact “the beginning of…