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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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Visualizing Philosophy

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Partly stemming from my recent exploration of OER visualization, I’ve started to take more of an interest in ways that philosophical ideas have been expressed visually.  Now, obviously many artworks are themselves the expression of philosophical or religious sentiment, and … Continue reading →

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H808 Diversity in e-Learning (5.2)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Rob Farrow

For this assignment we have been asked to get a sense of the diversity of those involved in the profession of elearning by looking at job opportunities in the field via jobs.ac.uk and conference announcements on ALT-C. At the time … Continue reading →

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Badiou, Art, Philosophy

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Rob Farrow

I recently attended Alain Badiou’s mini-course on The Relationship Between Art and Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at The University of Essex. I did something I wouldn’t normally do afterwards; making my notes publicly available.  They’re available on academia.edu and … Continue reading →

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Debating OER

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Rob Farrow

I’m taking place in a public debate this July about the value and future of Open Educational Resources (OER).  I’ll be taking the ‘anti’ side against Martin Weller, even though we’re both effectively advocates of OER in our day jobs. … Continue reading →

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