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Sceptics & social media: 5 stages of grief 1 Aug 2013 | 06:19 pm
I’ve long been an observer of the way newspaper, radio and TV journalists have dealt with social media. Many simply snipe away. We’ve heard the weary tones of TV pundits who have been forced by their ...
Wikipedia Zero – mobile as lifeline to learning 26 Jul 2013 | 05:41 pm
It jars when I hear people say online learning isn’t used. Don’t you use Google, Wikipedia and lots of other online services to learn? I know you do, because the stats are overwhelming. In fact billio...
Good, bad and ugly: 7 critics of social media 11 Jul 2013 | 03:28 pm
I’m of an age (56) where lots of my contemporaries show contempt towards social media. It’s rarely a reasoned argument, simply a sneer accompanied by a ‘I’m too good for that sort of thing’ attitude. ...
Cambodia: what do you do when all teachers are killed? 2 Jul 2013 | 10:34 pm
Teachers annihilated Cambodia all but wiped out its teachers in the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge genocide. In a curious twist of fate, many of the senior cadres and architects of the revolution had been teach...
MOOCSs: 20 ways to monetise 25 Jun 2013 | 10:46 pm
MOOCs aren’t all about money but when it comes to their future, money does matter. Calls for the monetisation of MOOCs are reasonable, although a little at odds with the failure in the past to look fo...
Latin – The Big Debate at British Museum 16 Jun 2013 | 07:04 am
The venerable Mary Beard, whom I love, not only for her books but also her television programmes, and the fact that all that bullshit about presenters having to be groomed clones, is beneath her, invi...
African MOOCs: unlocking a billion more brains 13 Jun 2013 | 11:42 pm
“Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of poverty — by providing them an affordable education to get a job or improve in the job they have. Nothing has more potential to unlock a billion ...
E-learning Africa – 7 new narratives 12 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
Amazing event - 1500 people from all over Africa, to discuss, debate, dance, sing and celebrate. I’ve never been to a conference like it, and believe me I’ve been to a few. I was there to give a keyno...
E-learning Africa – 7 new narratives 12 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
Amazing event - 1500 people from all over Africa, to discuss, debate, dance, sing and celebrate. I’ve never been to a conference like it, and believe me I’ve been to a few. I was there to give a keyno...
Negroponte hacks off Africa 6 Jun 2013 | 12:39 am
“Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.” Well, no, the only idiot in this story is Negroponte, as the hack...
