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LCCT Programme

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Rob Farrow

The schedule for the London Conference on Critical Thought is now available here.

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Flipping Philosophy

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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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Reading: Open Education

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rob Farrow

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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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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OER13: Report & Slides

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I’ve spent the last couple of days here in Nottingham at OER13, where I presented yesterday on the OERRH project and about some of the issues surrounding research synthesis.  Here are my slides: The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research … 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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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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OERHub: Looking Forward

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rob Farrow

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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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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The Teacher’s Apple

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Tess Pajaron sent me the following infographic which attempts to substantiate the claim that Apple is winning the battle for tech presence in the classroom and for use by educators.  You can see the full page at http://newsroom.opencolleges.edu.au/features/the-teachers-apple/.

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