by Derek Morrison, 24 June 2009 (updated 25 June 2009) N.B. The views expressed in this posting are the author’s own and should not be construed as representative of any other individual or organisation. Coincidence or convergence? Synthesis or accidential synergy? Putative zeitgeist? There has been a recent set of announcements and reports that I […]
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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 […]
See! … there is life after UKeU
April 11th, 2005
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John Beaumont former Chief Executive of UK eUniversities Worldwide (UKeU) seems to have risen Phoenix-like from the ashes. Despite the recent highly critical UK Parliamentary select committee report on UKeU, on 4 April 2005 he became Chief Executive of QA plc, a company with a blended learning in management focus. According to the Money.am site […]
UKeU: The Final Curtain?
March 4th, 2005
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And so the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee report into UKeU deals the final death blow to a wasted opportunity. We're left with a sense of 'snouts in the trough' and a flawed attempt to build a better mousetrap for mice who didn't exist. The leadership at all levels was apparently flawed but, […]
UKeU inquiry draws to a close? - some reflections and a challenge
January 31st, 2005
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What may be last of the UK House of Commons Education and Skills Committee sessions investigating the demise of UKeU was held on 12 January 2005. First up in the hot seats this time were Sun Microsystems' Leslie Stretch, Vice President, Sun Microsystems UK Ltd, and David Beagle, Account Manager of UKeU project, Sun Microsystems […]
UKeU: Peeling the Onion (continued)
November 9th, 2004
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Just when everyone thought this had gone away. Full marks to the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee for tenacity. Yesterday (8 November 2004) they had Dr Kim Howells, Minister for Higher Education, in the hot seat answering questions on the rise and fall of UK eUniversities Worldwide. Parliamentlive.tv only provides us with an […]
ALT-C 2004 - Comments on 'What can we learn from the UKeU experience?'
September 20th, 2004
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I attended the Elearning for remote adult learners - What can we learn from the UKeU experience? post conference workshop at ALT-C 2004 wondering if I would be alone with the presenters. After three days of sitting through many presentations this could be one workshop too far! I need not have been concerned, the room […]
Comments on the e-University (aka UKeU) Compendium
September 17th, 2004
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The UK's Higher Education Academy is beginning to crank up its resource production capability and with the release of The e-University Compendium it has given e-learning 'historians' and policy wonks something meaty to get their teeth into. And if you look really carefully … You will find my name buried in there somewhere as one […]
UkeU- the extent of the financial fallout
August 2nd, 2004
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Don McLeod, over at the Guardian, is still keeping up with the in's and out's at UkeU. In E-university creditors make net loss he reports that universities owed monies will receive just less than a fifth of what they are owed in an agreement with the auditors winding up the company. In a related article, […]
UKeU: the financial fallout
July 29th, 2004
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Another Donald MacLeod polemic in the online Education Guardian article 'UK Universities owed 2.8 million in e-uni debacle' (26 July 2004). The article content is fair comment but for one thing … The Education Guardian article was based on documents 'leaked' to Computing magazine by which I think they mean the copy of the documents […]
