Bryan Mathers

Pathways

Gold, Silver, Bronze, yawn... This (standard) approach prevents the issuing organisation from having to think too deeply about how learners might interact with…

8 years ago

The Seven Co-operative Principles

You may not know that there are Seven Co-operative Principles. Yesterday, I was at Mozfest, hosted by Ravensbourne College in Greenwich,…

8 years ago

ZeroNet – the rabbit hole…

Doug Belshaw has been experimenting recently with ZeroNet, a way of hosting a website, distributed amongst peers (using BitTorrent and…

8 years ago

Curiosity

What if I just tweak it a little? Change the colours slightly, or make it into a repeating pattern? Or a…

8 years ago

Eye

It's a two way deal. Once you've seen something, you can't unsee it. Equally, the interpretation of what you see…

8 years ago

Self Portrait

If self expression affords you a sideways glimpse at your own self, then a self portrait allows you to briefly hold…

8 years ago

Artificial Intelligence…

So I've been meeting with Kin Lane recently (aka API Evangelist) trying to get a deeper hold on all things…

8 years ago

Being a leader

There are a grazillion lists of leadership qualities compiled by those who seem to be able to exactly define what it…

8 years ago

The future of testing

I read this guardian article recently where a woman asked Tinder for all her personal information. They sent her 800…

8 years ago

Academic failures – got any previous?

We carry around our academic failures like previous convictions. If pressed, we might even blame something: but I'd never even been…

8 years ago

Student Debt

I find this insight from Noam Chomsky about student debt utterly profound - and equally depressing. How can we have let…

8 years ago

New Project? Every time…

The biggest waste of time is the time spent not getting started. Why do I allow myself to be held captive by…

8 years ago