#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
#freepalestine #endtheoccupation
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 4 November 2011 I want to make a brief return to one implication of the ideas fleshed out by Joss Winn earlier this year in a post on the Triple Crunch, which focused on…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 28 September 2011 I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 September 2011 At ALT-C 2011 I took part in a symposium on the Paradox of Openness: the true cost of giving online. I blogged about what I might say, as an introduction. In…
*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 28 March 2011 The slides for this workshop are available on my slideshare. Introduction: beyond cuts and taxation In a recent workshop on the alternative to cuts, DMU’s Sally Ruane argued that if the…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 7 February 2011 Over the weekend, I attended “For People and Planet: Not Profit and Self-Destruction: Can Universities make the move towards, or even lead ‘transition’?” What follows are the questions that it raised…
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 4 February 2011 Halfway through Wednesday’s DMU debate on whether Universities are a public good, a friend asked me if this was the right question. Doesn’t the answer have to be “yes”? Whether you…