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Philos-L- Berkeley Society Session at Eastern APA Baltimore
- Reminder: Durham Emergence Project Fellowships
- Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium IX - Grounding Aesthetics
- Milan 27 May — A. Varzi
- My Night with Philosophers / 7 June 2013, 7pm-7am / London
- Hermann Hesse & Music - request for a paper
- Patterns of Thought Conference, Liverpool, June 21-22
- 2ND CFP: Pluralism, Politics and Practical Reason (MANCEPT Workshop)
- CFR: Open Minds VIII
- Teorema Spring Issue
- IET @ OU
- ED TECHIE
- Doug Clows’s Blog
- MOTILL
Author Archives: Rob Farrow
LCCT Programme
The schedule for the London Conference on Critical Thought is now available here.
Posted in events
Tagged academia, conference, Continental Philosophy, education, philosophy, research
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Flipping Philosophy
Last week I went to the 6th International Conference in Critical Theory, based at The John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago in Rome. I got some useful stuff out my my presentation, both in terms of some headspace … Continue reading
Posted in critical theory, education, research
Tagged academia, copyright, education, events, flipping, research, technology
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Social Pathology & Postmetaphysical Thinking
My slides from today’s presentation…
Posted in critical theory, research
Tagged aristotle, critical theory, habermas, honneth, kant, methodology, social pathology, theory
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Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning
I’ve just had notification that Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice (for which I co-wrote a chapter has now been published… you can download directly from here.
Data visualization as simulacra
I just saw this quote over at Radical Cartography and thought it was really interesting to think about in relation to data visualization, which is essentially also making spatial representations of information. Information is already abstraction from experience because in … Continue reading
JiME Reviews Apr 2013
I have a copy of the following book available for anyone who would like to review it for JiME. Just let me know if you are interested… Jenkins, H., Kelley, W., Clinton, K., McWilliams, J., Pitts-Wiley, R. and Reilly, E. … Continue reading
South Korea: Photos
Just a few photos from our (me and @beckpitt) recent trip to S. Korea…
Reading: Open Education
I’ve been meaning to spend a bit of time trying to better understand the open education movement of the 1970s and how it relates to contemporary developments in academia. A useful summary of some key texts is over at infed.org … Continue reading
Posted in education, oer, philosophy, research
Tagged academia, education, oer, open, philosophy, reading, research
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Language Games
I’ve just filed my copy for a review of Martin Weller‘s book, The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Changing Academic Practice (which, incidentally you can buy online but if I was you I would just grab the free version online … Continue reading
Posted in education, philosophy
Tagged context, digital scholarship, education, language, language games, meaning, philosophy, questions, reflection, Weller, wittgenstein
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Data Maps: The Next Level
An interesting post by Young Hahn on map hacking has given me some food for thought with respect to the redesign of the OER Evidence Hub. This article led me to another, Take Control of Your Maps by Paul Smith. If … Continue reading
Posted in technology, tools, visualisation
Tagged data, evidence, oerrhub, research, technology, visualization
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