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Philos-L- New website for "metaphysics seminar - Aix en provence"
- CFP: (Re)thinking Global Connectedness (Qatar)
- Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism in Mikhail Bakhtin - Dialogue at the Boundaries
- proofreading offered
- CONF: Early receptions and reactions to Pre-Socratic thought, up to Plato (Stanford, 7-8 june)
- The Absolute and the World in Late German Idealism (Montreal)
- The Sanders Prize in Epistemology
- INVESTIGATING SEMANTICS - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
- Geneva workshop on the metaphysics of mixtures and stuff, June 6-8
- VIDEO: Adrian Piper Interview by Robert Del Principe on Rationality & the Structure of the Self
- IET @ OU
- ED TECHIE
- Doug Clows’s Blog
- MOTILL
Category Archives: research
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
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Social Pathology & Postmetaphysical Thinking
My slides from today’s presentation…
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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
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
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Tagged academia, education, oer, open, philosophy, reading, research
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Revisiting Critical Theory
The full line-up for the 6th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome has now been announced and I see a few familiar names on there from my time at Essex when critical theory was my full-time gig. As the main … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, blogging, critical theory, events, philosophy, reflection, social pathology
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Data Visualization for Humanities
Here are my notes from today’s OU seminar which offers a survey of major online humanities datasets and some of the tools available for visualising them. Speakers: Dr Elton Barker (Classical Studies Department, The Open University, and Alexander von Humboldt … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, data, digital scholarship, edtech, education, events, information, re-purposing, technology, visualization
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What is Open Access?
I just had to share this video from PhD Comics. A really neat introduction to the issues surrounding access to scientific literature…
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Tagged academia, communication, copyright, digital scholarship, education, oer, open, pedagogy, reflection, research, technology
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Visual Learning 2012
Last month I attended the Visual Learning Conference at the Visual Learning Lab, Budapest. The slides of my presentation are already up here, but I thought it would be worth sharing some of the notes I took while I was … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, digital scholarship, events, visual learning, visualization
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OERHub: Looking Forward
One of the things that we need to do as the OER Hub project progresses is keep track of the various research and dissemination activities that we are involved with over the two year period. I have a couple of … Continue reading
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