#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
I’m presenting at the Bishop Grosseteste University learning and teaching conference on Monday 22 June. There is a fuller blog-post on my topic of dismantling the curriculum in higher education here. Abstract As a response to on-going economic crisis and the…
I’m speaking at the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business (EdinEB) conference on 3 June, in Brighton. The conference is focused on the interplay between theory and practice, with the focus on “Critically questioning educational innovation in economics and business:…
ONE. Resistance is futile. In discussing the financialisation of higher education, and the marketisation that is immanent to it, Andrew McGettigan has argued that: I am frequently asked, ‘what then should be done?’ My answer is that unless academics rouse…
The slides to accompany this presentation to DMU PGR students can be found here. The session will focus on linking our individual use of social media to researcher development, through the Vitae RDF, and especially in terms of developing the…
In June 2009 the ‘52group’ gathered from across the Higher Education sector to consider the confluence of education and the digital. The result was a position paper entitled ‘Preparing for the postdigital era’. At the time the paper was largely…
The Digilit Leicester Project defined a self-evaluation framework with school staff who could then focus their continuing professional development as it related to their own digital literacy. One of the outcomes of our evaluation work on the was the recognition…
I have an article coming out in a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology next year, on open education. It’s entitled “For a political economy of open education”. Abstract In understanding the changes that are impacting the global higher…
Joss Winn reminds me that Karl Marx’s Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association, “The First International” in late October 1864, included the following statement about the political importance of collective work, association and combination, as a bulwark against the economic and…
I’m speaking at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) on 25 March 2015 about the relationship between capitalism, educational technology, and the proletarianisation of the University. How lovely. The working title is: Against educational technology in…
I’ve been reminded this week, by Joss Winn’s excellent article “Writing about academic labour” that There is an understandable tendency among critics of the current crisis in higher education to want to restore the university to what it once was,…