Towards a new education?

I asked Richard Murphy a question on Twitter after reading his post, "It’s not just a new politics we need: we need a new economics too." "And a new education?" He replied "Almost certainly". @georgeroberts Almost certainly — Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) October 7, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This "new education" has to lie in what Murphy calls … Continue reading Towards a new education?

Jisc Digital Leadership Workshop

Semi-live blogging from the Jisc Digital Leadership project Workshop (Twitter #JiscDigLead. in Bristol at the Hotel Mercure, 22-23 October 2015. Day 1 Lawrie Phipps opened the day mentioning the "dynamic online offer" from the Jisc Digital Capability service appearing maybe January time: "Online service moving into beta in the new year," says Lawrie. I wonder … Continue reading Jisc Digital Leadership Workshop

Sharks and TELephants

  The challenge for technology enhanced learning (TEL) is that it not be used to impoverish people. Let me begin to explain. I can help you teach. I may be deluded, of course, but it is none the less something I believe and something that I can act on with an established and evolving repertoire. … Continue reading Sharks and TELephants

Tealab? TEL me about it

Reviving Tealab: Tealab is explicitly a Teaching Laboratory and discussion "space". There are a number of excellent initiatives across the university that lap over the territory. When Tealab was set up it was intended to replace the Learning and Teaching  Forum (LTF),  with a focus on people (possibly "younger" whatever that might mean) interested in … Continue reading Tealab? TEL me about it

Education for all: a public good?

This is still the question to be addressed as the consequences of less and less certain funding are felt in actual institutions with payrolls and contracts and food service and students. While the recharged Labour Party debate suggests there is political risk, there will be at least four more years of opposition and for institutions … Continue reading Education for all: a public good?

Usurpation: the condition of the university?

Usurpation might better be seen as the condition of the university than as a problem for any particular aspect of that complex phenomenon: higher education today. Taking Subramaniam, Perrucci, & Whitlock's (2014) theoretical framework of social and intellectual closure we might see usurpation as - in parts and in places - an ameliorating response to … Continue reading Usurpation: the condition of the university?

Getting away with it (a blimage challenge)

Bounced off Steve Wheeler's post, "Blimy its a blimage" and thought I could be a nay-sayer or a player (more on which somewhere else maybe).  The image was of old school desks shot from above. The challenge -- for the Blimage is a challenge -- is to write an education-related piece about the image. Two … Continue reading Getting away with it (a blimage challenge)

School of Education Research Conference 26 June 2015 #soeresearch

Semi-live blogging from the Oxford Brookes University School of Education Research Conference at Harcourt Hill, Glasgow Room, Friday 26 June 2015. hash #soeresearch Mandy Winter: Pupils conceptions and practices of composing. Mandy Winter launches the proceedings: the Clangers travel in a boat powered by music. She reports on 3 Studies Revisioning compositional pedagogy for adolescents … Continue reading School of Education Research Conference 26 June 2015 #soeresearch

Reflection, criticality and transformation

I would like to know how to test a belief that I am forming. I suggest that some people - perhaps especially mature learners returning to education - enter higher education with an unstated and often unconscious aim of becoming better at arguing for their prejudices. I do not mean to use the term "prejudice" … Continue reading Reflection, criticality and transformation