Objects and Dramaturgical Perspectives

All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts… (Shakespeare, 1623, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7) Introduction The above well-known and oft-used quote from Shakepeare’s As You Like It is perhaps a fitting […]

Return to The Chamber of Fear

The Conference This year’s Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conference took place on the 8th – 10th September 2015 at the University of Manchester. The theme of the conference was “Shaping the Future of Learning Together” and focused upon the following areas: Harnessing the power of the crowd – collaboration and connectivist learning; Social media […]

When Ideas Sing

But the good ways of reading today succeed in treating a book as you would treat a record you listen to, a film or TV programme you watch … There is no question of difficulty or understanding: concepts are exactly like sounds, colours or images, they are intensities which suit you or not, which are […]

Learning in Limbo #blimage

Preamble The gauntlet was thrown down by David Hopkins, to participate in a game or challenge if you will. David had responded to a similar challenge passed on to him by Steve Wheeler, who, in turn, was enlisted in the original challenge offered by that High Priestess of EduPunkery, Amy Burvall. This is the aim […]

Epistemic Fireflies

As mentioned in my previous post, I had arranged a Supervisory Meeting on Friday 19 June 2015 to meet up with my two supervisors, Dr Simon Hayhoe and Dr Darren Ambrose, to discuss moving the project forward in terms of the ethics application and looking at ways of working together. About the research study At […]

A Pilgrim’s Progress Report #1

But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange (Shakespeare, 1610, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2) I was originally going to call this blog post Xenophobia, as in an irrational fear or dislike of the unknown. Unfortunately, it has since become a highly emotive word to describe certain discriminatory practices and inflammatory language. […]

The Character of Academic Teaching Staff

It’s been a while since I have written anything about my Doctorate in Education (EdD) work. I’m going to leave that particular post until next week after I have had my meeting with my supervisors. I do, however, like to write about something that is related to it. To recap, my research will focus around […]

ICT in Primary Education MOOC

Here I go again, I have only just signed myself up for yet another MOOC with Coursera whilst still doing the EdD (Doctorate in Education), especially as I have hit a crucial stage in terms of putting the ethics application form together along with supporting documents and my research instruments – these being the questionnaire […]

The Flexing of Flexibility

Background Over the last few weeks I have been posting on the team blog regarding the work undertaken by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) on flexible learning, which has now become a major research theme. The seeds for this theme were sown in 2003 when the UK Government published its’ Higher Education White Paper (DfES, […]