#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
*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 26 October 2010 The Browne Review and the cuts announced in the UK CSR have prompted much heat and some light around the idea of higher education [HE], and the notion of state support…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 1 July 2009 A number of national research reports and position statements have been published recently, which impact technology-enhanced practice across the sector. These include: JISC, Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 13 August 2009 The issue of outsourcing technology-provision is emerging as a major issue for higher education managers. I know outsourcing has been around for a while – institutions have outsourced data networking and…
*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…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 14 June 2010 With Joss Winn, I have had a paper accepted for the Open Education 2010 conference. This paper begins to open up a space for us to discuss some of the revolutionary…
*Originally posted on Learning Exchanges on 27 July 2010. **This post is a set of personal reflections on open education, and the fetishised nature of Open Educational Resources [OERs], and arises from the JISC/HEA-hosted Open Educational Resources International Symposium. It…