A journey of a thousand miles problem @jockox3 the limits of my anarchism #ukuncut

I accept a loose notion of the social contract and accept that there are limits on my behaviour imposed on me for the benefits of all - including the payment of levies (taxes) for the provision of services to us all, even if I might prefer those services to be delivered in a different way. … Continue reading A journey of a thousand miles problem @jockox3 the limits of my anarchism #ukuncut

JISC Scholarly Communications Action Handbook #pcthe #digilit #literacies

via misc.jisc.ac.uk This JISC Scholarly Communications Action Handbook provides guidance and suggested actions, in an effort to address researchers' scholarly communication concerns and improve current practices. The series of actions were created in consultation with the community and should help to establish change. Posted via email from George's posterous

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