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Write to reply – an interview with Tony Hirst

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:35:03 +0000

Tony Hirst has recently been involved with creating a website dedicated to giving people the tools to respond to official government papers. The website is called writetoreply.org

We spoke to Tony about this.

Link

The future of the internet?

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:22:23 +0000

Recently, John Naughton discussed Jonathan Zittrain’s book ‘The future of the Internet – and how to stop it’ in an OU discussion group. John posted an MP3 of the discussion on his blog, and you can directly link to the blog entry here:

http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2009/03/23/7045

And play the mp3 here:

mp3

The return of Simon Bell

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:53:14 +0000

As some of his colleagues will already know, Dr. Simon Bell (Systems group) has recently returned to the University, after a 2 year sabbatical.

During his time away from the University, Simon has been involved in a number of projects and also took up the role of Director of the Bayswater institute (http://www.bayswaterinst.org/) for a time. On talking to Simon, it is clear that he has benefitted from the opportunity to exercise some of his theoretical work in a practical field – developing new approaches to using Systems thinking and practices.

Simon returns fully refreshed from his experiences and we thought it was a good opportunity to allow Simon to speak about what he got up to in his time away from us. Listen to the interview below for some really useful and interesting insights into Systemic practice.

Listen here.

C&S Away Day – December 2008

rws2 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:16:36 +0000

Rob and Joe of IFEC came along to the Communications and Systems department away day. They took lots of photographs and interviewed various members of the department.

We are pleased to present an audio/visual presentation of the day.

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

Jon Rosewell: Equitability and Dominance in online forums.

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:03:03 +0000

On 13th November 2008, Jon Rosewell presented a talk to the EATING group, which concentrated on research he had been doing into the subject of equitability and dominance in online forums.

The specifics of this talk centre around forum usage in several courses in the Technologies Undergraduate Programme. Jon also presented an argument for analysing forum data through the use of indices that are popular in ecological analysis.

This talk will be of general interest to anyone who makes use of online forums, especially those linked to Open University courses. Additionally, this talk would be of specific interest to anyone interested in statistics.

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

Richard Seaton talks

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:20:27 +0000

Richard Seaton spoke to Bill about a range of subjects, including the new Faculty and Department structures and also Richard’s role as Programme Director of Undergraduate Technologies.

Listen to the interview here.

Ray Ison talks Systems

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:08:09 +0000

Professor Ray Ison talks about his work in the Systems group and his background in Australia.

Listen here.

Composting with Rachel Slater…

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:24:16 +0000

Dr. Rachel Slater is a research fellow in the OU’s Integrated Waste Systems group (IWS). In this interview, Rachel spoke to Bill Thompson about about composting groups, the importance of recycling and her time as a graduate student in the OU… all from the comfort of one of the OU’s very peaceful gardens.

You can listen to the interview here.

Judith Williams on T215

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:28:11 +0000

Joe Mills talks to Judith Williams about her role as a Course Team Chair and the roles of other Course Team members. Judith also talks about development of a new course, T215.

Listen to the article here.

Apple and its iPhone strategy

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:07:55 +0000

Professor John Naughton discusses the iPhone and what it could mean for Apple – and the rest of us.

Listen to the interview here.