#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
Yesterday’s symposium on critical perspectives on educational technology made me think about the following issues. FIRST. How do we understand the structuring effects of the educational and pedagogic structures in which we work? How do we understand the ways in…
On Tuesday 15 October I’m presenting something on “The University, technology and co-operation”, at the Critical Perspectives on Educational Technology symposium at the University of Brighton, UK. There are some notes on a co-operative pedagogy of struggle here. My slides are…
The Leicester Digital Literacies Framework (Digilit Leicester) Project is a two-year, whole-city, educational intervention that pivots around a knowledge exchange partnership between Leicester City Council and De Montfort University. It is led by me and Josie Fraser, with Lucy Atkins…
On Tuesday I heard a series of speakers, including Rachel Wenstone from the NUS, Malcolm Ryan as the ALT Conference co-chair, and Alan Ford from the University of Nottingham, speak about educational institutions as spaces for partnership-working between staff and…
I wrote this as I listened to a Jon Hopkins’ Boiler Room mix. On Tuesday 10 September, I will be taking part in a conversation about technology-enhanced learning and the crisis. This emerged from some work at the Alpine Rendez-Vous…
On Friday I’m presenting at the Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution, Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Edinburgh. There is a fuller paper here. My slides are here. I intend to make the following points. ONE:…
George Siemens published a post over on his blog titled Neoliberalism and MOOCs: Amplifying nonsense. George’s key points in my opinion were that: “Numerous quasi-connected fields that thrive on being against things have now coalesced to be against MOOCs” “The more prominent argument…
I’m pleased to be presenting at a symposium titled Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution, in Edinburgh in September. I’m going to speak about “Educational technology and the enclosure of academic labour inside public higher education”. My presentation…
In a post on Globalisation and the University, I picked up on William Robinson’s work on the mechanisms by which a transnational capitalist class, acting through a transnational state apparatus, and supported by a neoliberal political society, hatched from within…
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…