I’m in Liverpool this week for the annual ALT Conference. I’m primarily here as part of the UK Open Textbooks project to assist and understand the adoption strategy used by OpenStax. In the opening keynote Bonnie Stewart encouraged us to understand embodied work and embodied perspectives as important as the ‘rational’ perspectives that have traditionally informed […]
Read More Open Cyborgs at #altcThis event took place in the Darwin Building at University College London on the 7th June 2017 and was organised by the Universities programme at UK Parliament Outreach and Engagement Service. These are my personal notes which may be of interest to any researchers who wish to improve the profile of their work among policymakers. […]
Read More Research, Impact and the UK ParliamentOriginally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by The Analogue University[1] From Auditing, Controlling, to Desiring Data The term “neo-liberal university” has become shorthand for a range of contemporary pressures in university life (Burrows 2012; Strathern 2000). However, increasingly we are not only considering specific pressures – such as workload, anxiety, and the reduction of research to…
Here are my slides from yesterday’s presentation at OER17. All feedback welcome. Abstract This presentation explores open education ideologies in light of educational technologies; recent political discourse; and the political philosophy of Karl Popper. Since the latter half of the 20th century, “openness” has developed within stable frameworks of liberal/social democracy, and is now often […]
Read More Rethinking the Open Society #oer17Originally posted on OUseful.Info, the blog…:
Mentioning to a colleague yesterday that the UK Parliamentary library published research briefings and reports on topics of emerging interest, as well as to support legislation, that often provided a handy, informed, and politically neutral overview of a subject area that could make for a useful learning resource,…
Interesting article on the role of big data and psychological profiling in the 2016 USA presidential elections.
Read More Trump Knows You Better Than You Know YourselfOriginally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The third and final reading of the UK’s HE Bill has been scheduled for next Monday, 21 November. If it passes the Commons and then the Lords, it will become law. Thanks in part to the turmoil around Brexit, this Bill has flown under the radar for virtually…
This presentation outlines some key considerations for researchers working in the fields of open education, OER and MOOC. Key lines of debate in the open education movement is described and critically assessed. A reflective overview of the award-winning OER Research Hub project will be used to frame several key considerations around the methodology and purpose […]
Read More Critical issues in contemporary open education research #srheToday I’m in London for the Digital University Network Seminar at the Society for Research into Higher Education. Lesley Gourlay began proceedings by noting that openness is an area which needs to be looked at in the context of the ‘digital university’ series. Here are my notes on the presentations by the other two speakers. […]
Read More #liveblog: Critical Perspectives on ‘Openness’ in Higher Education #srhePreston Davis (aka @LazyPhilosopher) invites us to think about the early days of Western civilisation where philosophers like Plato and Aristotle formed educational institutions on the basis of their own privilege. This kind of system persisted into Roman times, where males with the ability to pay could attend organised schools where they would learn to […]
Read More #opened16 live blog: College Affordability and Social Justice
Dr. Robert Farrow 