I just logged in to FirstClass to see what was going on and in the vague hope that I would have received a message from my unhelpful gatekeeper. No such luck. However, logging on reminded me that while the gatekeeper claimed to have had no time in the past three months to OK a couple of letters I had written, they had found time to exclude me from a whole series of relevant FirstClass conferences.
It’s bad enough to have a gatekeeper who is wasting hours of my time, disrupting my research and stressing me out. That’s their prerogative. They’re not paid to help me. But being deliberately obstructive? hat sort of educator does that? My opinion of this gatekeeper has fallen very, very low.
That’s a bit of a shocker. Went to the CALRG meeting today and found it very interesting, if extremely crowded. Patrick gave an interesting, fairly unstructured, talk on OpenLearn. They set up lot of forums and conferences associated with the open courses. Initially there were responses along the lines of “anybody out there” but these fell off. They’re just about to think a bit more about how to get these forums moving, whether to employ people to moderate them and/or seed them/get them going. They’re open to research suggestions. Could this provide you with some data do you think?