Digital by Default

Digital by Default

What does the ‘Revolution’ mean for me?

Yesterday saw the launch of Martha Lane Fox‘s report into the future of Directgov, Revolution Not Evolution, though as she admits in introducing the report it took a far wider remit than that. In fact it offers a vision for a radically changed digital landscape for the public sector – something that is considerably more…

November 24, 2010
Closing the door on open education..

..for a while anyway. Even before I returned to JISC for a year I had become extremely interested in the whole open education movement. At JISC I was lucky enough to work on the OER programme a little which meant meeting a whole army of incredibly intelligent and committed people working in the area. I…

November 23, 2010
Feeling better about [#bebettr] ?

Well not really 😦 When I decided to take on running Be Bettr this time and make it something much larger scale and a little bit more formal I thought I would either still be working for JISC or maybe freelancing – either way I would have had available headspace for Bettr. As it happens…

November 15, 2010
Back to school(ish)

Many years ago (1997) I was pretty competent writing HTML from scratch in Notepad. The sites were basic but I kept up with the standards and was pretty proud to have taught myself how to contribute to the web. A couple of years later I added some basic CSS knowledge to the mix and some…

November 14, 2010
[#drumbeat] reflections

I’ve had a week to reflect on my Drumbeat experience now and am feeling more able to report on it in a more balanced manner. I did have a great time and found the event inspiring in places and never less than interesting but it wasn’t without its problems as well. I really struggled with…

November 14, 2010