Well that was an interesting week. I awoke Monday morning to a Twitter stream full of rumors about the imminent closure of Becta and significant worries about the future of HEFCE and by implication JISC. Lovely way to start the week. As it happened the rumors regarding Becta were correct and while it is fair…

A big part of the focus of this week was on OER matters again – which is good as I am finding myself more and more interested in this area of activity. I wrote a couple of blogposts; one on my work blog outlining some issues and achievements on the technical side of our OER…

God this felt like a long week! Have just tracked through my email a bit as I’m struggling a bit remember the beginning of the week. I know I spent some time arranging to get some publicity for a report we commissioned via some USA based partners – I’ve been a bit slow in making…

Short week again due to the Bank Holiday plus Friday was a little blurry due to getting sucked in to the election coverage til far too late (and early). Spent alot of this week thinking, talking and writing about ‘synthesis’…..now I have long since given up trying to define what the hell we mean by…

So last week I was 1/3 of the way through this little experiment with weeknotes. The main thing that happened was that I realised that I was in danger of completely losing the plot as far as managing my work load. One of the defining elements of life as a JISC Programme Manager is that…