Pop stars or supporting acts?

August 17th, 2009 No Comments

by Derek Morrison, 17 August 2009

Any views expressed in this Auricle posting are the author’s and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation.

The catalyst for this post was the article PhD students claim they are ‘cheap labour’ in yesterday’s Sunday Times (16 August 2009). As is so often the case, the online version of this same article has a different headline, i.e. Universities face revolt over ‘cheap labour’. The reader comments in the online version add further value to the original piece. So why is Auricle interested in this press article?

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NPfIT or not?

August 14th, 2009 No Comments

by Derek Morrison, originally posted 10 July 2009, updated 14 August 2009

It may sound like the name of a trendy gym but NPfIT is the acronym for the somewhat beleaguered multibillion NHS National Programme for IT, the biggest programme of its type anywhere in the world. As such it makes a fine ongoing case study of the pitfalls, tragedies and sometimes triumphs of major centralised IT initiatives. The latest polemics are focusing on the impact of viruses/trojans et al on what is expected to be, and needs to be seen to be, an absolute bastion of security and confidentiality.

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UK Parliamentary report on Students and Universities

August 14th, 2009 No Comments

The UK Parliament’s Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee report on Students and Universities was released on 20 July 2009. Section 4 on teaching and learning makes specific comment on the research-teaching synergies, the QAA, the Higher Education Academy, and teaching qualifications in HE. A PDF version of the report is also available. For the time poor I offer a few “power extracts” and one distinctly “low power” technology reference.

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The World Technology podcast – (e)book oriented edition

July 18th, 2009 No Comments

by Derek Morrison, 18 July 2009

The first 16 minutes or so of the The World’s Technology podcast 241 (MP3, 1 May 2009) is worth a listen for all of those interested in the future of books in all their paper and digital forms. The World is a one hour radio programme broadcast in the US and is a joint production of the BBC,PRI, and WGBH Boston. The technology podcasts are produced by Clark Boyd, The World’s technology correspondent. He usually assembles interesting material not found in other podcasts of this type.

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Auricle gets new coat

July 17th, 2009 2 Comments

by Derek Morrison, 17 July 2009

I’ve adjusted Auricle’s appearance and functionality a little. The main changes have been to use RSS feeds to highlight information and news being published by thought leaders, ‘e’-oriented organisations, or researchers/rsearch teams elsewhere on the web. Each RSS feed I have chosen displays a set of four items within Auricle. These are tasters for many more items available on the sites publishing their feed so the idea is that you go there as well as Auricle.

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Auricle now tweets

July 11th, 2009 No Comments

by Derek Morrison, 11 July 2009

This is just a bit of an experiment but I’ve added a plugin to this blog that will automatically tweet the latest links to a Twitter account. So if anyone is interested you can follow @auricledotorg or go to http://www.twitter.com/auricledotorg. Another twitter account of possible interest is the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) – to follow @elesig or go to http://www.twitter.com/elesig.

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Auricle has an updated blog po…

July 11th, 2009 No Comments

Auricle has an updated blog post: Auricle now tweets ( http://www.auricle.org/auriclewp/?p=1951 )

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Created Twitter account to not…

July 11th, 2009 No Comments

Created Twitter account to notify followers of new http://www.auricle.org postings.

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Chrome plating Windows?

July 9th, 2009 No Comments

by Derek Morrison, 9 July 2009

Normally I wouldn’t want to contribute to the already excessive publicity regarding the Google Chrome OS; this is after all currently only vapourware, but since Auricle is a place for recording reflections this is probably the most appropriate time to do so. Google headquarter’s staff must be ecstatic that Tuesday’s announcement (7 July 2009) became a news item of note in the world’s broadcast and print media. So what’s of potential interest for online learning mavens in such an announcement?

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Oxford Internet Institute’s “The Internet in Britain 2009”

July 8th, 2009 No Comments

by Derek Morrison, 8 July 2009

A good starting point before reading the OII’s report The Internet in Britain 2009 (PDF, 2MB) would be Seb Schmoller’s commentary in his recent fornightly mailing. I commented on the government’s Digital Britain report referred to in the OII’s study in my recent Digital Britain report published – read carefully posting (Auricle 18 and 21 June 2009) but in this posting I wanted to focus on one particular aspect of The Internet in Britain 2009, i.e. “ex-users” of the internet.

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