The Auricle

I’ve been a bit silent on the Auricle front lately but I normally try and take a long break from normal life around Christmas and New Year. Anyway, to kick off my first contribution of the New Year let’s consider what Shop Talk has to offer the grey matter. Download article as PDF

I’ve been trying to record an interview with Oleg Liber, Director of CETIS for some months and we finally managed to get together on the 14 December at one of the events in the Higher Education Academy’s new Innovation Academy series; the event being entitled Open Source VLEs: The Next Generation. So this podcast interview […]

Collective intelligence. What’s that? An abstraction for sure, but it manifests itself more concretely when communities of users voluntarily engage with a site and system because they feel a sense of ownership and value in taking part. As a result such a site and system grows organically. The ‘product’ become the collective activity of the […]

In a previous Auricle post BBC TV goes broadband (18 July 2005) I considered the implications of the BBC video download trial which provided providing pre-broadcast access, via broadband, to its second series of the comedy The Mighty Boosh. Even bigger plans are afoot because on Thursday (24 November 2005) the BBC announced that the […]

Contemplate this statement: Media has taken over some of the teaching that normally society would have provided. And technology has driven that; it has been the conduit. Download article as PDF

Following on from my first post on this topic here are a couple of additions to the knowledge base. I’m not saying they are necessarily relevant, just that here’s as good a place as any to deposit them. Download article as PDF

Here’s a different type of Auricle post from my normal offering. As well as being a repository of information I’ve started to gather, the post is also a kind of thought lab I’m using to articulate and test out ideas, issues, and concerns related to benchmarking and e-learning. The post is a work-in-progress and so […]

Sorry … couldn’t resist this. A BlackCT or Bored Web of course. For a more considered opinion read on. Download article as PDF

Still catching up on my podcast backlog. The BBC In Business program for 30 June 2005 Do it like Deming is a worthy listen to any contemplating what’s necessary to achieve high quality in any sphere, including e-learning, or enhancing the teaching and learning environment generally. Ironically, it was the post-war Japanese who listened and […]

The JISC/Higher Education Academy regional workshop series flying under the banner of Planning and Evaluating Effective Practice with e-Learning signals, perhaps, a growing recognition that the main challenges of the future are not technical or technological at all. It’s a people and organisation thing really. Download article as PDF