Bryan Mathers

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

iPhone X

I am supposed to care about this stuff right? That's the deal with the big reveal...

8 years ago

Reinvent

Everyone deserves to be able to re-invent themselves; to decide the person they want to be, and become it; to…

8 years ago

Beyond the Islands of Innovation

I managed to catch the first day of the ALT conference in Liverpool, and thoroughly enjoyed catching up with some…

8 years ago

Openness and Higher Ed.

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…

8 years ago

The LMS…

...there's not much enlightenment at the end of this tunnel. Inspired by This is not the online learning you (or…

8 years ago

The unbundling of Higher Ed

From the opening keynote by Bonnie Stewart at the recent ALT conference, entitled The new norm(al): Confronting what Open means for H.E.

8 years ago

Things

How do you read it? From the opening keynote by Bonnie Stewart at the recent ALT conference, entitled The new norm(al): Confronting what Open means…

8 years ago

Normal

Being outrageously tall, I know what it's like to live in a world designed for the normal - and it's…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

Open Badges from Dialogue

It's one thing to decide how to badge a group of people on your own terms. It's quite another to…

8 years ago

Computing Badges

Desired Experience: Swift Or Objective C, JavaScript, Cordova, Angular... I've always thought that one of the most obvious areas ripe…

8 years ago

Learned Behaviour

The path to learning is paved with good behaviours. It can also be a pretty lucrative path, for some... From Speak…

8 years ago

Creative Constraints

One of my favourite classical works is Franz Liszt's piano remix of Beethoven's nine symphonies (here's Gould playing No 6). He…

8 years ago

Algorithmic secret sauce

"the promise of NGDLE remains fuzzy and inchoate to most of us, a dream of algorithmic secret sauce that will…

8 years ago

Web 2.0 Country

Web2.0—the web of platforms, personalization, clickbait, and filter bubbles—is the only web most students know. That web exists by extracting…

8 years ago

Exit Planet Brexit

If there's one thing I've learned from kids (including my own) is that if you're losing a game of something,…

8 years ago

POSSEE

Doug Belshaw was the first to enlighten me on this self publishing principle, and encourage me to set up my…

8 years ago

A personal API

So in the middle of reading Jim Groom's post on The LMS is dead, and getting my head around next…

8 years ago

NGDLE Perspectives

On the one side, it's good to give a nebulous thing a name - even better if you're first to…

8 years ago

Building a Learning spaceship…

Lego is an interesting metaphor to choose for a next gen learning environment. Let's build a spaceship! If only it…

8 years ago

So what will a NGDLE look like?

According to the Educause report, the emerging needs of a NGDLE are these: "Its principal functional domains are interoperability; personalization;…

8 years ago