Comment on @Hallymk1 write-up of #opened10 talk: http://is.gd/gIhE1 blogged here

Thoughts with a sleeping babyThank you for this precis 🙂 http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/2010/11/04/the-relationships-between-technology-and-open-education-in-the-development-of-a-resilient-higher-education-2/ I am struggling with much of the same. Ten years ago learning technology was a symptomatic moment in educational transformation/transformational education. Still is, though the onslaught seems so much fiercer, now. A challenge is how to effect transformational education in places where the power … Continue reading Comment on @Hallymk1 write-up of #opened10 talk: http://is.gd/gIhE1 blogged here

Is it time for the academy to leave the institution? #csr #browne

It may be time for the academy to abandon the institutions which have housed it for the past several hundred years. Universities - institutions of higher education - it would seem, no longer want or need scholars. I am struggling to understand the academic world in the UK following the publication of the Browne review … Continue reading Is it time for the academy to leave the institution? #csr #browne

Innovation in lifelong learning? #ssbr1010

I want to urge us all to see innovation as a fundamentally problematising practice, necessarily discomforting at times, and to urge us all not to see innovation as simply code for the further enclosure of a knowledge commons and the de-democratisation of the institutions of education. Money, wealth, employment may well be how we live … Continue reading Innovation in lifelong learning? #ssbr1010

Grooming your personal brand: public writing is about quality enhancement not audience size

There is a class of blogger and tweeter who have dedicated themselves to "helping" the rest of us grow our number of followers, capture eyeballs, become indispensable. They implore us to ask constantly why others should want to read what we write, how we add value, what is the unique selling proposition that our on-line … Continue reading Grooming your personal brand: public writing is about quality enhancement not audience size

Reflection on the first tutorial group of the year: reflection, observation and feedback

Myfirst tutorial "base" group, went well enough, with 9 out of 10 present and 7 reflective pieces submitted, which I said I would give brief feedback on. I may have spent too long on professional reflection, but hope that it was useful. There was a good discussion about group process, inclusion, function, and of course, … Continue reading Reflection on the first tutorial group of the year: reflection, observation and feedback

Enquiry based, experiential and situated learning – Cloudworks

We are starting to collect resources, but it is not exactly clear how we are going to collect and hold such resources. For the moment, I have started this "Cloud" as one means of collecting resources together. I will be offering these to the Brookes institutional repository, also. via cloudworks.ac.uk Posted via email from George's … Continue reading Enquiry based, experiential and situated learning – Cloudworks