Universities and Public Goods
Siva Vaidhyanathan is an interesting and thoughtful scholar who often writes on copyright issues affecting higher education. His recent article summarising the outcome of legal battles between US...
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Trying to sustain 3000 words a day is clearly crazy. That said I did manage to write 2,500 words yesterday for my book outline and a further 500 words or so for the blog this morning so who knows....
View ArticlePeople Formally Known as Students
People Formally Known as Students Alison Byerly posts on an Inside Higher Ed blog the interesting issue of what we call people engaging with MOOCs, are they really students? "If we allow the word...
View ArticleLeadership
A colleague at the University drew my attention to a recent article on being a PhD student in computer science, describing how to lead from below. Its a good article, filled with useful advice to PhD...
View ArticleOn the road - Murdoch University Perth
I'm in Perth/Freemantle this week attending the ACODE 60 Meeting at Murdoch University. Right now I'm sitting in their Library cafē (haven't Libraries really learnt to move with the times) looking out...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Staying Wired on the Road...
Travelling once again reminds me of the entirely broken network infrastructure we are forced to pound our heads against. Hotels know this and have a great little earner in place charging people like me...
View ArticleACODE 60: Learning Analytics
ACODE 60's workshop was today and focused on the area of Learning Analytics. Although MOOCs seem to have overtaken analytics as the issue of greatest interest in e-learning there is a case to be made...
View ArticleA Taxonomy of MOOCs
One of the nice things about being an IT professional and an academic is the opportunity to draw together vast assemblages of letters (mostly in caps) and use them in ways that help insiders...
View ArticleWriting update...
So, how's that 50,000 word goal working out for you Stephen? We're at the half way point and you should have written 25,000 words so far, yes? Truth be told, no. I have done about 10,000 words on a...
View ArticleWriting, writing, writing
Managed to write about 4000 words or so since last Friday which takes me to around 14,000 for the actual month of November or around 1000 words per day. The good news is that I have a week of writing...
View ArticleFurther Evidence of Complete Stupidity in the US Patent Office
US Patent 7,805,252 "Systems and methods for designing and ordering polynucleotides" is without doubt the stupidest patent I have seen in a long time. This company has patented any and every use of a...
View ArticleOpen eBook Tests
A question from a colleague sparked this posting. What happens when the traditional paper books used in such exams or tests become eBooks? This is not a trivial question. Read more...
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