We carry around our academic failures like previous convictions. If pressed, we might even blame something: but I'd never even been…
I find this insight from Noam Chomsky about student debt utterly profound - and equally depressing. How can we have let…
The biggest waste of time is the time spent not getting started. Why do I allow myself to be held captive by…
I am supposed to care about this stuff right? That's the deal with the big reveal...
Everyone deserves to be able to re-invent themselves; to decide the person they want to be, and become it; to…
I managed to catch the first day of the ALT conference in Liverpool, and thoroughly enjoyed catching up with some…
This thought is by Martin Weller, via the opening keynote by Bonnie Stewart at the recent ALT conference, entitled The new norm(al): Confronting what Open means…
From the opening keynote by Bonnie Stewart at the recent ALT conference, entitled The new norm(al): Confronting what Open means for H.E.
I thoroughly enjoyed the opening keynote by Bonnie Stewart at the recent ALT conference, entitled The new norm(al): Confronting what Open…
It's one thing to decide how to badge a group of people on your own terms. It's quite another to…
Desired Experience: Swift Or Objective C, JavaScript, Cordova, Angular... I've always thought that one of the most obvious areas ripe…
The path to learning is paved with good behaviours. It can also be a pretty lucrative path, for some... From Speak…
One of my favourite classical works is Franz Liszt's piano remix of Beethoven's nine symphonies (here's Gould playing No 6). He…
"the promise of NGDLE remains fuzzy and inchoate to most of us, a dream of algorithmic secret sauce that will…
Web2.0—the web of platforms, personalization, clickbait, and filter bubbles—is the only web most students know. That web exists by extracting…
If there's one thing I've learned from kids (including my own) is that if you're losing a game of something,…
So in the middle of reading Jim Groom's post on The LMS is dead, and getting my head around next…
On the one side, it's good to give a nebulous thing a name - even better if you're first to…
Lego is an interesting metaphor to choose for a next gen learning environment. Let's build a spaceship! If only it…
According to the Educause report, the emerging needs of a NGDLE are these: "Its principal functional domains are interoperability; personalization;…