Tag Archives: digital scholarship

Data visualization as simulacra

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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 →

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Language Games

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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 →

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Data Visualization for Humanities

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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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JiME Reviews Feb 2012

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rob Farrow

We currently have the following books available for review at the Journal of Interactive Media in Technology.  Please forward these details to anyone who might be interested in being a reviewer for us.  If you’d like to nominate yourself as … Continue reading →

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What is Open Access?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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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Visual Learning 2012

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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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Data Visualization Tools

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rob Farrow

There’s a nice list of data visualization tools available on netmagazine.  I think it would be really interesting to experiment with a few of these in the context of the redevelopment of the OLnet Evidence Hub in the OER Hub … Continue reading →

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Visual & Philosophical Pedagogy

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Here are the slides from my presentation at the Third Visual Learning Conference.

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Innovating Pedagogy

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Rob Farrow

The recently published Innovating Pedagogy report explores contemporary and innovative forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. Here are the different sections of the report: About Assessment for … Continue reading →

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Athabasca Landing

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Terry Anderson is currently visiting us here in IET and he just gave a brief presentation on the ‘Athabasca Landing’, which is the virtual learning environment and social network that supports their students. These are my notes from the session… Continue reading →

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