JISC

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David Wiley's "Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education"

In 1998 my enthusiasm for openness was given a boost (or started?) by David Wiley and the Open Content license that he developed. At that time the use of such licenses, which have been superseded and absorbed by Creative Commons,...

Sleep apnoea and road accidents - our memorandum of evidence to the Transport Select Committee

[This post is tagged "nothing to do with e-learning...]Earlier this year the Transport Select Committee began an Inquiry on Road Safety. The then Chair of the Committee, Gwyneth Dunwoody MP, who sadly died in April of this year, helpfully agreed...

Mick Waters on personalisation: "unless pressed, I never use the word"

In previous posts I've been sceptical about personalisation (April 2006; October 2006; January 2007 ; March 2007). On 17 November the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee took oral evidence from Mick Waters and Teresa Bergin (respectively Director...

Dan Hill on the new State Library of Queensland

Two impressive posts by Dan Hill about the State Library of Queensland, one from the perspectives of a user - "The best public library I’ve seen anywhere. Certainly superior to the Bibliothèque National de France, far superior to the British...

European debut for OLPC XO1 laptop

Updated 09.10 17/11/2008 According the BBC, OLPC is planning to sell XO1 laptops in Europe via Amazon from 17 November. (If you search Amazon for OLPC you get a related result [124 kB PDF], dominated by a competitor's product.) Although...

Could the UK become a world leader in e-learning?

The UK's Department for Innovation Universities and Skills has launched a public discussion on a report commissioned from Sir Ron Cooke [300 kB PDF], about how the UK might become a world-leader in higher education e-learning1. DIUS is eager to...