Today I'm in Leeds where I'm one of the speakers at the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) event Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century. I'm here with Brian Kelly, one of my colleagues from UKOLN, which is also based at the University of Bath. Brian holds the […]
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Times Higher – “By the blog …” plus
October 21st, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 21 October 2008 Zoe Corbyn’s article By the blog: academics tread carefully (Times Higher Education, 9 October 2008) was a good broad sweep of scholarly blogging and has generated some interesting commentary. Brian Kelly from JISC/MLA’s Web Focus service had referred Zoe to me as one example of a long term HE […]
Weblog scalability and automation
September 28th, 2004
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As editor of Auricle you would expect me to be quite a fan of blogs, and I am; but their personal publishing heritage tends to get the in the way of scaling up their widespread use in education. For example, what if an article has multiple authors? What if we want every student and faculty […]
e-Learning: Opportunities and Threats in the 21st Century
June 16th, 2006
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I’m playing catch-up here but I did promise the University of Chester that I would add some further narrative to my image rich (but text poor) slides supporting the keynote ‘e-Learning: Opportunities and Threats in the 21st Century’ I gave at their recent annual staff conference (25 May 2006). Here, therefore, is my ‘value added’. […]
Shock of the Old 2005
April 8th, 2005
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I gave the opening keynote yesterday (7 Apr 2005) at this year's Shock of the Old conference at Oxford University's Said Business School. It was a really good, informative event with the theme of implementing innovation. It had first rate inputs from other speakers from both the higher and further education sectors. Shock of the […]
Open source enterprise weblogging
January 20th, 2005
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Last October, in BlogBuilder Highlights I was singing the praises of the University of Warwick's enterprise weblog system whilst making the case for JISC involvement in facilitating the availability of such facilities for other institutions. There's been some interesting developments on the open-source front. Over on James Farmer's blog we find Open source enterprise blogging […]
Reflections on 'e' services, tools and strategies
September 29th, 2004
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Whilst waxing lyrical about the issues related to scaling up weblog use within higher education institutions yesterday I put forward a couple of refreshing alternatives to the 'e-learning=proprietary VLE' furrow now being ploughed by many institutions. I think we have a lot to learn from institutions that have opted for an eTools and services model […]
