I was at the OSS Watch conference on Thursday and very interesting if at times above my head it was. David Plans Casal who is a part of the Apache Foundation gave an illuminating presentation on Open Source Software. David’s experience dated back to at least the mid 1990’s and as [...]
I was browsing through my iPhoto and it brought back loads of memories. These two examples were from Cornwall a couple of years ago when I vistied Ian Tindal with Pete Bradshaw. Ian introduced us to beach stone sculpting. I wonder if the images help me to remeber the experience better than [...]
What do we mean by criticality? This is a much used term in Higher Education and it could be argued that it is at the heart of the ‘University Experience’, that is teaching students how to be critically reflective thinkers or developing ‘criticality’. But what does it mean?
It is certainly the case that undergraduates can [...]
Bob Fryer’s (new role as NHS National Director for Widening Participation in Learning) take on the e-learning agenda came from a slightly different perspective from other delegates. His passion was located in the notion of citizenship and identifying the implications for what might be called an ‘e-social agenda’! That is how can we [...]
Tom Reeves from The University of Georgia presented on the focus of digital libraries (repositories for digital content such as online library databases, museum artefacts, science focussed resources such as those produced by C4) but his ideas were in fact much broader than that and encompassed ideas around e-Learning pedagogies. The starting point was [...]
Interdisciplinary, Inquiry-based Learning Project
Coeducate Project
Building Capacity@Bolton Project
