#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 1 September 2011 Closure and exclusion Following his leadership of the successful Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) occupation and work-in of 1971-72, the Communist and trades unionist Jimmy Reid was elected as Rector of the…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 12 July 2011 Brian Lamb has highlighted two quotes that made me think about politics, power, consensus and the web, and most importantly, about History. David Eaves, Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 16 June 2011 Howard Noble from the JISC Open to Change project has blogged about the recent energy dashboards event held in Oxford. This event focused upon a number of emerging themes. How to…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 9 June 2011 Last week Joss Winn reminded me of the urgency of the work that he and I have been doing in the last year around resilience, tied to the impacts of liquid…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 14 December 2010 In a recent note on technology, outsourcing and the privatisation of higher education, I argued that hegemonic economic arguments, uncritically focused on short-term efficiency gains and the perceived flexibility of cloud-based…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 29 November 2010 I spent a wonderful day with students at the Really Open University programme of events last Friday, in occupation of the Michael Sadler lecture theatre at the University of Leeds. The…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 16 November 2010 I was taken with Mike Neary’s description of the 10th November national demonstration by students, staff and supporters of HE as a public good. It was important that Mike called his…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 4 November 2010 I thought it would be helpful to write-up that which I spoke about at Open Education 2010 in Barcelona, yesterday. The slides are available on my slideshare, and the paper is…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 29 October 2010 I’ve been pondering the realities and possibilities surrounding cuts and Browne, based on conversations and reading of the comments to my original piece on open education, cracks and the crisis of…
*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…