Summer Fruitfulness in Academia?
Great piece on the joys of academic pressure: It’s not true, of course, that September is entirely grim. Being back at work means colliding with cheery colleagues in the corridor, Continue Reading →
View ArticleSpeaking Up Required in Higher Education…
A really interesting piece about the place of ‘introverts’ in higher education where action learning means not speaking up is no longer an option: However, university students are no longer allowed to...
View ArticleWhat is ‘Intellectual Cowardice’?
Always interesting to read from those who are public about their ‘fears’ – once fears have been named, they can be faced, right? Anxiety about being a fraud does seem Continue Reading →
View ArticleOverwork = Less Creativity? Milking the academic cow dry?
A fascinating piece on the culture of overwork within academia, finishes: We need coalitions of the sane to lead discussions about what can reasonably be expected of academics, to recruit Continue...
View Article“Good Works” = “Academic Citizenship”
The realities of academic life – more than research and teaching … and incredibly difficult with short-term funding/contracts For Mary Evans, centennial professor at LSE’s Gender Institute, the rewards...
View ArticleFacebook hubs may influence grades
Useful thinking about university course Facebook groups, which students typically set up themselves: At the start of term there is “a big rush” to create the most popular Facebook site Continue Reading →
View ArticleKeeping distractions to the minimum?
Learning and teaching in a digital age … remove the digital distractions? To help create such a place, I keep distractions to a minimum. Everything about the interior is designed Continue Reading →
View ArticleMOOCS need more interaction? (@timeshighered)
Currently undertaking three variants of online courses or MOOCs, and largely listening, taking notes, sharing some notes, with the occasional bit of conversation. Ironically the one with most...
View Article[BOOK REVIEW] Sharing our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media,...
Another book to add to the wishlist, particularly related to my interests on identity (online): In Sharing our Lives Online, journalism scholar David Brake explores many of the potential harms from...
View Article[Book Review] Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left,...
This looks interesting: Howard P. Segal on an examination of the accelerating pace of life whose scope extends beyond fast food and computers In our high-tech culture, speed is all Continue Reading →
View Article[Book Review] The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a...
Also looks interesting: Now that digitisation has revolutionised the media, what are we watching – and how? By Sharon Wheeler S o I’m sitting on the sofa, surfing rapidly through Continue Reading →
View ArticleGoogleGlass in the Classroom
We’ve had a GoogleGlass in CODEC since the summer, but it’s not been used to much acclaim by the team, but this is an interesting experiment where it seems to Continue Reading →
View Article[BOOK REVIEW] Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
Now, here’s an interesting looking book, and this first couple of paragraphs sums up a lot: The relationship between academics and Wikipedia is a complex one. At one level we Continue Reading →
View ArticleBook Review: Pressed for Time by Judy Wajcman
Well, this looks interesting: Pressed for Time – Judy Wajcman’s clearly, interestingly and highly accessibly written investigation into the many facets of the acceleration of time in our increasingly...
View Article#FollowFriday: Using Twitter in Learning
Interesting story in THE, with Rosie Miles, who I heard from at Winchester in the past: Dr Miles used Twitter, she said, as a kind of “ludic learning” tool, allowing Continue Reading →
View Article"Born into a second life"
Some interesting thoughts here re ‘digital natives‘: In my field, we are accustomed to rehearsing all the usual anxieties about threats to material book culture: we lament the loss of Continue Reading →
View Article[Book Review] Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the...
This looks worth a read … had many discussions about the use of Wikipedia within academic life … and let’s face it, many of us use it as a first Continue Reading →
View ArticleInternet Addiction Impacting Studies?
Curious about this piece of research: Internet addicts were less motivated to study, according to responses given in the survey. Students with mild or worse internet addiction were judged to Continue...
View Article[BOOK REVIEW] This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (re online trolling)
This looks really interesting: Why do trolls exist? How can such hostile online behaviour be understood intellectually, culturally and socially? Put another way: is the notorious Pedobear character...
View ArticleVideo in the Classroom
One of the activities that I was involved in at the University of Winchester was looking at the possibility of lecture capture in the classroom, accompanied by many questions of cost, intellectual...
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