by Derek Morrison, 26 September 2010 I’ve been catching up on my podcast listening and came across this one from NPR’s Morning Edition titled Stanford Ushers in the Age of Bookless Libraries. A transcript is available but the story is still well worth a listen. With the increasing use of mobile devices, ebook readers, and […]
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Ebooks what ebooks?
February 21st, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 21 February 2010 (updated 24 February 2010) Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. In a fairly detached way I’ve been interested in the trajectory of the ebook concept and […]
iPhone, iTouch, iTunes, iNewsagent, iNfinity?
January 3rd, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 3 January 2010 N.B. The following online essay represents the views of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In my posting Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars? (Auricle, 6 December 2009) I wasn’t convinced that the […]
Technology Impeded Learning (TIL)?
September 29th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 25 September 2009 There! … Even in the title of this posting I’ve added my six pence (cents) worth to the concerns of those becoming exercised by the unchallenged assumption that “technologies + learning = good thing” In my posting J.G.Ballard on the dangers of “inner space†(Auricle, 27 September 2009) I […]
They’re coming to take your content away!
August 21st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
Indiscrete addressability (a Third Life addendum)
September 4th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 4 September 2008 Following on from yesterday’s posting Third Life – Auricle: the next generation (Auricle, 3 September 2008) here’s a few more reflections on blogs as information object repositories. I believe the issues addressed yesterday and in today’s posting are relevant to any context where unique and persistent object identities matter, […]
Further reflections on the Personal Learning Environment
July 3rd, 2006
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I’m authoring this short article from a small town in Malaysia which is many miles from many of the main cities and which doesn’t enjoy, currently, the level of broadband connectivity many of us in large parts of the West have come to consider normal. It has been back to using a modem from a […]
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’. […]
Whose PLE is it anyway?
June 2nd, 2006
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I assume it’s because I’ve waxed lyrical about related matters in Auricle and various conference presentations that I’ve been asked by the CETIS Personal Learning Environment Experts Group to contribute my ‘position’ on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Although I’m wary of accepting the mantle of ‘expert’ – there are none in this area – I […]
Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials - drivers and challenges
October 5th, 2005
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I presented an opening keynote at the Open University Business School on Friday (23 September 2005) for the Cambridge-MIT Institute�s conference Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Enabling Communities of Practice. I had my Higher Education Academy hat on, but given the conference theme and the aim of the keynote to stimulate reflection […]
