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JISC 09 Aftermath
This week I attended the JISC Conference in Edinburgh for the first time as a delegate instead as a member of the organising team. The JISC Conference was a big annual landmark for me throughout my time at JISC and it was never exactly what you would call a fun experience for me – its…
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University of the People
In a pretty amazing PR coup an Israeli entrepreneur, Shai Resef, managed to get worldwide publicity including notably in the New York Times, for his new education based start-up the University of the People. The article makes some grand claims and glosses over the fact that the plans are mainly speculative at the moment as…
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Been Blogging @ Bettr
My smooth piece of alliteration in the title (and anyone with a superohero habit like me loves a bit of alliteration) is mainly to point out that I have been doing a bit of blogging over at http://bettr.org and that has slowed things down a bit here. Most of the content over there that is…
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One Laptop Per Child Project Struggling
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) was (is) a noble project originally based at MIT that aimed to create a cheap, durable laptop that could be used by children and educators in developing countries. Despite these admirable goals the project has been dogged by issues almost since day one and the founder Nicholas Negroponte has seemingly…
