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October 10, 2008

e-book: Opening Up Education

October 10, 2008

Ian Dolphin just tweeted that "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" Edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar Foreword by John Seely Brown is now freely available as an e-book at ...

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October 06, 2008

e-Framework workshop - 100% attendance

October 06, 2008

To all the projects THANKS, we have a representative from each of the projects at the up coming e-framework workshop. In fact, given the popularity, we've moved to a bigger room so that all of the extra people from the projects who wanted to come can also attend. Venue: the Hatton in London () please plan to be ...

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October 01, 2008

Too shy

October 01, 2008

The sounds Good project have been a little shy coming forward, but for those of you who read the Times Higher, you will have noticed that one of our own U&I Projects, Sounds Good directed by Bob Rotherham, have been nominated for an award - MANY CONGRATULATIONS more details at ...

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August 22, 2008

As we approach the conference season...

August 22, 2008

A few weeks ago I posted a request for ideas about 'surviving conferences' and asked for tips about getting the most out of conferences as a delegate (there is already a plethora of conference organiser material). The response was excellent and I received lots of great ideas. I am looking at a printed version (in a small booklet form) but ...

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August 19, 2008

e-Framework workshop

August 19, 2008

You will be aware that the Programme will be making significant contributions to the e-framework through the work that you are doing, and that you all committed to supporting this activity within your Bids and project plans.   In order to help this process as much as possible we will be providing a workshop on ...

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July 08, 2008

JISC Digitisation Blog: Is academia ready for Web 2.0?

July 08, 2008

A really interesting post from the JISC digitisation team this morning over at: It concludes:Social networking features are perceivedas primarily for pleasure rather than for work Content is still king: to be a truly useful research tool, students and lecturers need to know that a resource has been created for them and has scholarly merit, and reliable and ...

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July 07, 2008

One for your Diary

July 07, 2008

Following a few questions about the e-framework. I've now organised an e-framework workshop for 29th October 2008. This will be a very practical session, focusing on outputs and how to fulfil your commitment to contribute to the e-framework (as agreed in the bids and subsequent T&C of grant). The venue will be London and I hope to have further ...

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March 17, 2008

Is it me?

March 17, 2008

Or did someone switch tag clouds with another site? I rarely post in here, and when I do it's normally boring procedural stuff. However, I do stop by and read your posts at least three or four times a week. I liked the comments that were left in response to Chris Hall's "Benchmarking: good, bad or ugly" a useful ...

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March 03, 2008

Project Documents: Urgent

March 03, 2008

Thanks to all of you who have already got their materials to me. I know you are all very busy and I respect that, however, in terms of documentation, I am still a few projects short of a full programme. The priority documents that I need are:The Web Template: Project Plan: any relevant consortia agreement: latter ...

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February 21, 2008

Showcase your project at the JISC Conference

February 21, 2008

We have three 20 minute slots avaialble for the JISC conference, if you have a 'working prototype' let me know asap and I'll sort something out with JISC ...

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