For a network of commons
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 16 November 2011 I kept the faith and I kept voting/Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand/For theirs is a land with a wall around it/ And mine is a faith…
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A teach-in at Tent City University and the struggle for alternatives
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 7 November 2011 I spoke at a session for Tent City University yesterday, with Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Alex Callinicos, Dave Hill, Guy Mitchell of the Really Open University, and a student activist from…
Triple crunch and the politics of educational technology
*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…
In, Against, and Beyond The University: for the courage of boundary-less toil
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 11 November 2011 “It isn’t for the moment that you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh ONE. At…
on academic activism, boundary-less toil and exodus
*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…
The Paradox of Openness: the true cost of giving online
*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…
Stories of custom-in-common: history, power and the internet
*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…
You have not been paying attention: putting students at the heart of the system
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 29 June 2011 Nervously, and without any real need whatever, Franny pushed back her hair with one hand. ‘I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in…
on spaces for dissent and resistance
*Originally posted at Learning Exchanges on 8 April 2011 Sarah Amsler has recently asked: Why aren’t more academics speaking and acting out in greater earnest against the destructive policies of privatization, marketization and corporatization now being imposed on and from…
Beyond Cuts and Taxation: Critical Alternatives and the Idea of Higher Education
*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…