Universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) can play a key role in human capital development and innovation systems. In the time of globalisation, growth and development continue to cluster around specific regions that have a high concentration of skilled and creative workforce and infrastructure for innovation. HEIs can help their cities and regions become … Continue reading Higher education in regional and city development – Prof Mike Osborne #facecon09

Is video inherently flawed, or is this consolidation in operation?via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com Thanks Josie for pointing this out to me. For teachers concerned with feedback, this is a key question: two really, because the consolidation question is separate from the question of the affordances of the medium. I am interested in the affordance question but do … Continue reading @AJCann Death of Seesmic via @josiefraser What’s it say about feedback?

there is a visitors vs. residents issue here (to borrow David White's categorisation of online users). Twitter is a tool for residents. It's about people being immersed. It's about people "living a percentage of their life online". When visitors get hold of Twitter they see it as a tool to get a job done when … Continue reading Twitter, visitors and residents – were it ever so humble, is it home?

Iran's epic political conflict reflects a thirty-year arc of revolution now using state power to crush its own children, says Hazem Saghieh. via opendemocracy.net Open Democracy can be relied on for a rigorous analytical approach to the issues of the day, well referenced and argued. Posted via web from George's posterous

... and, spent the afternoon knocking my head against several walls trying to figure out how in the heck any of it relates to my research questions. Life is rich and complex, horrific and happy. Posted via email from George's posterous

Next week I am on leave to try to crack my analytical framework and to structure what ever it is I may have found. Last week was discouraging. It has been really hard doing this part-time. Picking it up and putting it down: three steps forward two steps back. I have to reinvent myself as … Continue reading Looking forward to a week of study leave

The links through the conversation prism (http://bit.ly/rg26k) to its creator JESS3 (http://jess3.com/) and one of the sites they did (http://www.busboysandpoets.com/) led to "B Corporations" (http://www.bcorporation.net/). This appears to be a nascent US social entrepreneurship standards setting and certifying initiative. The B-rating system attempts to go further than "triple bottom line" accounting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line) and corporate social … Continue reading @heloukee – Sparks off of the conversation prism to social entrepreneurship

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Greg Benfield argues that JISC Learner Experience synthesis work shows that the institution is an extremely powerful influence in shaping student behaviours with technologies. Students expect this guidance. Students do not necessarily have sophisticated or critical information handling skills, even with the technologies that they are so proficient at using. They come to university expecting … Continue reading The institution is a powerful influence in shaping student behaviours with technologies