Vir-ed. Viral education and the edgeless university

Net Neutrality

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:12:00 +0000

When Jon Snow came to Coventry

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:13:00 +0000

Shirky on the Journalistic ecosystem

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:35:00 +0000

Clay Shirkey argues that the public role of 'journalism as a watchdog' is at risk.

UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Building Knowledge Societies @ Cambridge ODL Conference 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Building Knowledge Societies @ Cambridge ODL Conference 2009

View more presentations from Catriona Savage.

Future of Technology in Education FOTE 09

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Just a few reflections from Future of Technology in Education FOTE 09 on Friday:

I was particularly interested in Dougald Hine's talk about unbundling the University. Dougald talked about stripping the university right back to its component parts, arguing that the university itself has become somewhat ordained in a mission where it has lost its connection to learners. He illustrated this with an example of a bunch of folk who, dissatisfied with the offerings of Media Arts MA courses, went and set up their own network of practitioners.

He talked about a number of grassroots initiatives that are springing up as a rejection to this including some of the findings he helped on in the edgeless university by JISC. This included Pippa Buchanon doing a DIY masters by creating a a network of people and content to help her learn, the smart work company who are rethinking managing practices for the 21st century, alterfutures who are a network of alternative design futurists as well as the School of Everything which is described as an ebay for learning to name just a few.

Add to this a number of other current experiments such as the P2P University, University of the People, Openlearn Learning Clubs, Lisa Chamberlain's Open PhD and the plethora of grassroots education initiatives that are surfacing around the uk and beyond at the moment and the statement that "This seminar feels a bit like sitting with

a group of record industry executives in 1999" couldn't have felt more appropriate.

I was also very interested to hear about David Jennings ideas around Progressive Austerity and how if we thought about optimising the use of slack spaces for example, we could make the world of education more open (most university equipment for example is unused for 90% of the time). Seems simple as an idea, but in an educational world motivated by profit rather than serving the educational needs of the people it becomes rather, unneccessarily, complex.

The future of education could indeed be at a radical price. And it could be an even more radical price for our Universities.

The videos from FOTE 09 are available here

Media Education Summit - Some great resources

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:35:00 +0000

If you are interested in thinking about the way that the digital (r)evolution is impacting on teaching and learning in HE then I recommend listening to these podcasts from the CEMP Media Education Summit.

Talks include Michael Wesch (Kansas State Uni) on Mediated Culture, Tom Loosemore (4ip) on New Media New Institutions, Andrew Chitty (Illumina) on A new kind of Network and a very interesting presentation from Jeff Jarvis (City University New York) on Distributed Education in the Google Age.

the Future of the 'University'? - David Parry Lecture

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Great talk by David Parry posted from Academhack about the nature of the governing ideologies of knowledge production and its potential impact on education

This talk gets really interesting at around 17 minutes where David Parry starts talking about how Universities are going wrong by choosing to protect a business model with digital facelifts, as opposed to preserving their social function (much as newspapers/music did in the way they handled the internet). After this he also goes on to discuss the transition from a 'book-based' model of knowledge towards a non-linear model.

random acts of web kindness

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain suggests the web is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

The Open Future of Education- keynote from David Wiley

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:14:00 +0000

more stuff from the did you know folk

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:08:00 +0000

Social Media Everywhere

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:03:00 +0000

Another video pulling together social media data, this time from socialnomics

The Pirate's Dilemma

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:42:00 +0000

The Pirates Dilemma

View more presentations from mattjamesmason.

Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan about google books

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:51:00 +0000

Untitled from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Remix Manifesto

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:17:00 +0000

This is an oldie, but i still like it

University Youtube Channels in the UK

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:57:00 +0000

Liz Azyan, a social media researcher, has just put together this fairly comprehensive list of UK University YouTube channels.

It is nice to see so many UK universities on there, it's even nicer to see that our Coventry University's channel ranks so highly (second to the Open University in terms of channel views and by far the biggest in terms of number of videos).

I suspect that most of the content will be marketing led, as opposed to teaching led, (something I'm trying to move away from on our channel) but at least it is a start.

No Surprises

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:53:00 +0000

It's that time of year again. The time when the education system steps into focus in the national press and phrases like 'dumbing down' become part of national vocabulary for a day or two. Every year it is the same old story. 'It must be getting easier' we here the news cry.

But lets step back a moment. Lets consider the other side of the coin. Perhaps teachers are getting better at teaching, perhaps students of today are working harder because they realise the value of their education. Perhaps we should be congratulating the students and the education system. But we wont do that will we.

Yes we do need to question areas of state apparatuses like the school system and ways we test intellectual ability. But lets do it in an intelligent way instead of regurgitating the same old discourses that we see year on year. Apologies for the generalisation but if anyone is dumbing down it's the journalists.

Political Implications of Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:46:00 +0000

Interesting new project funded by the AHRC to explore the political implications of Facebook and Twitter

Libraries of the Future - JISC

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:16:00 +0000

This video is from jisc digital media

Photographic Mediations now on iTunes U

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:14:00 +0000

Just uploaded the one day symposium called Photographic Mediations: Exploring the boundaries of photographic theory and practice,

art and commerce, critique and creativity.

Click here to open Photographic Mediations in iTunes

Time for iTunes U

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:40:00 +0000

A useful presentation from Barry Cornelius from Oxford University Computing Services about how they manage their itunes u infrastructure

Time for iTunes U

View more documents from Barry Cornelius.

The Future of Universities - Professor Lord Anthony Giddens

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:32:00 +0000

What The F**K is Social Media?

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

What The F**K is Social Media?

View more documents from Marta Kagan.

Obama makes commitment to access in education

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:30:00 +0000

creativity is needed

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:54:00 +0000

Andy Hobspawn asks for a call to arms for creativity in this 3 minute TEDtalk

Vir-ed. Viral education and the edgeless university

Net Neutrality

When Jon Snow came to Coventry

Shirky on the Journalistic ecosystem

UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Building Knowledge Societies @ Cambridge ODL Conference 2009

Future of Technology in Education FOTE 09

Media Education Summit - Some great resources

the Future of the 'University'? - David Parry Lecture

random acts of web kindness

The Open Future of Education- keynote from David Wiley

more stuff from the did you know folk

Social Media Everywhere

The Pirate's Dilemma

Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan about google books

Remix Manifesto

University Youtube Channels in the UK

No Surprises

Political Implications of Facebook

Libraries of the Future - JISC

More useful documents for social media in the academy

Photographic Mediations now on iTunes U

Time for iTunes U

The Future of Universities - Professor Lord Anthony Giddens

What The F**K is Social Media?

Obama makes commitment to access in education

creativity is needed