learning, teaching and research (archive)

As I mentioned in the last post, I am much taken with David Cormier’s ideas on community as the curriculum.   In a number of posts in his blog, listed below, he first develops his ideas on learning communities and then extends this into what it means for open education. After reviewing and summarising (my understanding) […]

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I have spent a  little time thinking about who the open learners are that will want to engage with open learning resources and content. In the discussions of open learning content within the formal education sector the emphasis seems to be mainly on how to encourage the release of formally written teaching materials (my own […]

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There has been a growing critique of the way Universities have been changing over the last 20 years or so and the current economic crisis and the funding cuts have served to highlight even more some of the things that have been causing concern. In a nut shell these are the ‘marketisation’ of universities, the […]

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Josie Fraser has outlined three different forms of identity individuals can have on-line in a recent post Personal – Professional – Organisational: three basic online identities. Josie acknowledges that these categories are somewhat provisional and the comments on the blog usefully develop aspects of the idea. It would be interesting, in the light of this […]

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One reason I started blogging nearly 4 years ago was to keep a sort of scratch pad of ideas, quotes, etc. that are useful and thought provoking. On the whole I haven’t done this but its never too late! Interesting article on how MIT have discovered that small group collaborative work by students has improved learning […]

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Last Tuesday I went to the latest event in the excellent Talking about Teaching series put on by SDDU at the University of Leeds – Challenging or conforming: the art of blended learning presented by Allison Littlejohn, Chair of Learning Technology at Glasgow Caledonian University. I found this extremely useful and got a number of ideas […]

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