Digital by Default

Digital by Default

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…

January 28, 2009
Bristwestival

I briefly mentioned Bristwestival in an earlier post but I think its a big enough to justify a whole post of its own! I have purchased my ticket (along with about 25 others at this point) and was especially pleased to see the venue is the Lanes, a new bowling alley/diner/night club hybrid in the…

January 25, 2009
NMC 2009 Horizon Report

This years Horizon report from the New Media Consortium and Educause Learning Initiative is online now. I haven’t read it cover to cover as it were yet but first impressions are its not the most ground breaking set of emerging technologies to focus on- I mean focusing on cloud computing and mobile technologies is a…

January 25, 2009
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…

January 21, 2009
Events update

A few quick events related updates today while I have a spare 10 minutes 🙂 Well I survived Bettr and all in all it went pretty well I think. There were a few dodgy patches and my Chief Exec managed to to get the back up of the BBC folks pretty much immediately with an…

January 19, 2009