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Teaching horses to talk
I am reading William Bowen’s neat (in a number of senses) new book on the economics of elearning: Higher Education in the Digital Age. It is a highly accessible book on a very opaque subject – sometimes you feel the … Continue reading
Gender gaming – real and virtual
Last week I attended an excellent conference: Girls and Digital Culture at Kings College London. It ran in parallel with London Fashion week at the Courtauld Institute next door. The august pictures of Kings College famous alumni that front the … Continue reading
Will the Finch Report kill off non-commercial open access journals?
I first wrote about open access publishing models last year in November. Because I work on two non-commercial open access journals that are produced almost completely by academic time, and a commercial journal that runs the usual subscription model I am … Continue reading
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What I saw in China: 1. Noisy technologies
I have just come back from a three week holiday exploring parts of China. While I was there I was too overwhelmed to blog, but since I have been back I have been reflecting on some of what I experienced. … Continue reading
Gender equity gets closer but not for everyone
This last week I have been participating in an online forum run by UNESCO and IIEP (the International Institute for Educational Planning) on gender equality in education. It is very easy to sign up for online conferences and then never … Continue reading
Spirit of Past- Ghost of the Future
On the 1st December Michael Gove (UK Secretary of State for Education) made a speech to the Schools Network. A large section of that speech was techno-enthusiasm; a peon of praise for the use of digital technologies and in particular … Continue reading
The digital scholar: who pays the wages, who buys the servers?
My colleague Martin Weller launched his new book : ‘The Digital scholar’ today. You can buy the book through Amazon, or you can read it online – for free- in open access form on the Bloomsbury Publishers website. I haven’t … Continue reading
What’s it worth?
Last week I spent half my time staffing induction and training sessions for research students here in my University and part of the rest of the time being inducted as a post-graduate student at another institution. The first was pleasurable … Continue reading
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The 14th and Final Cambridge International Conference on Open Distance and e-Learning.
I have just come home from the 14th – and last -Cambridge ODL conference. The theme of the conference was internationalisation and social justice: and the role of ODL in this. Social justice continues to be part of the rationale … Continue reading
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Where’s the Big Think Festival?
No one buys a house anymore – at least not in the developed world – because it has electricity, or flush toilets. And I don’t believe students register for particular higher education institutions anymore because they have websites and other … Continue reading