Category: Reflections

Yesterday was my first day at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) where I am now employed as a Reader in Inquiry-base Learning. IEC is an evolution of Jisc/CETIS and also pulls together a number of other …

This BBC report on Gordon Brown’s focus for secondary education explains…

England’s secondary curriculum is being overhauled to “focus on getting the basics right”, the government says.”

Subjects such as personal finance and cookery are likely to be included - plus …

This music video comes with a warning as the lyrics contain a lot of colourful and potentially offensive language. However, if you have ever suffered the worst excesses of public transport in either London or Wellington and …

For those of us who couldn’t face the prospect of installing X11 as a requirement for running OpenOffice on your Mac OS X, NeoOffice has produced a viable alternative (in my opinion) to Microsft for word processing and possibly …

Richard talking briefly about the past, but mostly about the future…

I finally managed to get my CMALT (recognition and accreditation for individuals working in the filed of e-learning) application in to what I hope will be an acceptable standard. Rather than submit a word document and supporting appendices, …

Much is written about the changing way in which emergent Internet technologies will offer opportunities for personalisation of learning. The experience of the Ultraversity project over its 4 year duration illustrates both the challenges faced and some …

Below is a response to a thread in the ITTE mail list confirming the closure of Ultralab at Anglia Ruskin University, UK - written by the acting director Richard Millwood.

Personally, I am in the moving on to pastures new camp. …

Browsing through You Tube brought home to me just how much things have changed for the better in the world of technology and new media over the past 5 years. Throughout the Tesco Schoolnet2000 project (1998-2000) there …

I came across this learning object via Tom Smith’s blog. It reminded me of a previous life when we used to get kids to think about what indicators best illustrated the relative changes …