Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Overworked American

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Rob Farrow

via http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1107/overworked/flash.html.

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‪QualiaSoup

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Rob Farrow

‪ via Morality 1: Good without gods‬‏ – YouTube. I think that QualiaSoup does a really good job of using multimedia to illustrate or explain philosophical ideas or principles that lots of students struggle to understand from reading texts.

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Downfall Parody: Digital Humanities

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Rob Farrow

Somewhat ironically, embedding has been disabled! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV–VHSw

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AHRC & ‘The Big Society’

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Rob Farrow

I just received a response to my email to David Willetts MP about the use of ‘The Big Society’ as a ringfenced funding area by the AHRC. Here’s the text. Dear Dr Farrow Thank you for your email of 22 … Continue reading →

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“Open Learning Network-the evidence of OER impact”

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Rob Farrow

Here are my notes from this morning’s presentation by Patrick McAndrew.  This presentation combined a description of the work being done around OLnet and a look at the technology. Patrick began by outlining the various indicators for the things being … Continue reading →

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