by Derek Morrison (originally posted 18 June 2009, updated 21 June, and 8 July 2009) The UK government’s Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) published the final version of its Digital Britain report yesterday (16 June 2009). Under normal circumstances it would perhaps merit some passing interest from media watchers but I think recent […]
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Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience – Final report released
May 12th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 12 May 2009 The Committee’s final report plus associated resources was published today. It is a sensibly cogent report. For me, para 98 summarises things very nicely (my emphasis). “… This does not necessarily mean wholesale incorporation of ICT into teaching and learning. To assume that would be to mistake the issue. […]
Open opportunities, open threats?
April 30th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 30 April 2009 N.B. The following online essay represents the personal views of the author and should not be construed as necessarily representative of any other individual or organisation. I would prefer to think that technological developments and experience would have, by this time, made the debate about what Virtual Learning Environment […]
Total personalisation = total surveillance?
March 27th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 27 March 2009 Seth Finkelstein’s column in the Guardian always makes for an interesting read. Yesterday’s print version was titled Google’s would-be watchdogs are distracted by its chew-toys but in the online version the same article was called Google’s surveillance is taking us further down the road to hell (Guardian, 26 March […]
Flexible working, flexible learning?
February 13th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 13 February 2009 There was an interesting set of articles on flexible working in The Independent’s SustainIT section (10 February 2009). Ok, this Independent pull-out was in association with BT so we have to be alert to implicit product placement but, nevertheless, there was some interesting stuff that I think could be […]
Digital Britain? Going beyond the digital dirt track?
January 30th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 30 January 2009 (updated 14 February 2009 The UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport published the Digital Britain – Interim report yesterday (29 January 2009). It’s notable that the “white heat of technology” ethos still reigns supreme in this report, e.g. Download article as PDF
Wiring the NHS – echoes of another?
December 5th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 5 December 2008 BBC Radio 4 transmitted a programme called Wiring the NHS on 25 October 2007. A second follow-up programme was transmitted on 1 December 2008. While I was listening to the second programme I found myself reflecting on some of the similarities with a much smaller, but yet still major […]
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 […]
UCISA 2008 Technology enhanced learning survey
October 1st, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 1 October 2008 The CETIS team offer us a rich menu of blogs to choose from. For example, Rowin Young’s blog offers us the insight below from his reading of the 2008 UCISA survey into Technology Enhanced Learning. “The statistics for VLE use within institutions are of particular interest. In response to […]
You take the high road …
September 24th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 24 September 2008 Reflecting Education Vol 4, No 1 (2008) ‘From Pedagogic Research to Embedded E-Learning’, contains articles by three Pathfinder projects, i.e. Leicester, Hertfordshire, and the Institute of Education plus a context-setting article by Terry Mayes and myself. Download article as PDF
