Digital literacies - LiT meets TEL?
Just been reading Robin Goodfellow's post about the seminar last Friday at the University of Edinburgh on Literacy in the Digital University. He makes some good points about the clash of the...
View ArticleRethinking Learning for a Digital Age
How Routledge do love these hubristic titles (not the editors' choice, I should mention). It has been a busy last two weeks, and Rhona has worked heroically to get the manuscript off on time. More...
View ArticleOpen everything
Putting together a workshop proposal for the Open Educational Resources (10) conference in Cambridge next March, based on work I'm doing with Allison Littlejohn and Lou McGill in support of the JISC...
View ArticleLearners' needs and expectations
Working on a keynote for the JISC Online Conference I've been reflecting on the assumption that learners' needs and expectations are closely related (theme one, question: can institutions meet the...
View ArticleDesign distance
This is an idea that came to me during a recent meeting with Cluster C of the JISC Curriculum Design programme. I have been reviewing their baseline reports and we were discussing both how...
View Articlewhy talk about texts?
This was blogged in response to Robin Goodfellow's post on the Literacies in the Digital University site and I hope can also be read there. I agree with Andy that new technologies bring forward new...
View ArticleFour questions about learners' needs and expectations
Ahead of my keynote with Rhona at the JISC e-learning conference, here are four questions I think are relevant to addressing learners' needs and expectations - and thinking about why needs and...
View ArticleThinking the future with/and/of/as technology
This post is in response/dialogue with Richard Hall's post Educational Futures, Educational Technology, and Digital Social Media. I was lucky enough to be involved in the Beyond Current Horizons work...
View ArticleWhere's the critical literacy?
Spotlight has a recent comment on critical media literacy which I like because it emphasises the need for education in critical reading - of all kinds - as well as functional access to information. I...
View ArticleThoughts on OER
A summary of reflections from the interim meeting of the UK OER II programme. Warning - it's a bit long (lots to say).p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }Financial constraints mean institutions are less...
View ArticleArticle 5
I noticed this quote in a Guardian report on digital animators"A lot of the animators here don't have a degree. It's all about your showreel.'Obviously the creative digital industry is ahead of others...
View ArticleDigital visitors and residents - some thoughts
I took part in an online seminar on the Digital visitors and residents project at a Collaborate seminar organised by the JISC last week. I think this is a useful metaphor to have in play, and the...
View ArticleDesign or be designed for
In the new digital literacy campaign from Michael Gove's office (as reported here in the Guardian) there are a few things to celebrate but perhaps more to regret.1. Yes, at the classroom level we...
View ArticleGuardian 'Digital Literacies in HE' live chat
It's always great to be on a panel with Josie Fraser and David White, not to mention the other excellent bloggers whose fingers will be racing over the pages of the Guardian's live web chat tomorrow....
View Articlee-learning futures: live writing for 'Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age'
Tomorrow I'm meeting with some old friends/collaborators (and a few new) to collaboratively write a final chapter for the second edition of Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age. I'm slightly nervous...
View Article'Learning technology' - an outmoded term?
In an email conversation with Lawrie Phipps and David Baume from SEDA's Digital Literacy project, we were looking at the term 'learning technology'.I suggested that the term comes from a time when...
View ArticleOcTEL task on 'readiness' to learn online.
As I'm leading a webinar on the subject of 'learners' this week i thought it was time to engage with some of the content and comments in the ongoing OcTEL MOOC.Week two's activities start with...
View ArticleDoesn't live here any more
Please note that I am no longer maintaining this blog. Look out for my new one at www.helenbeetham.com.
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'Post-digital' provocation #1: mode of production
I've been asked to provide a 'flipped keynote' for the SEDA conference 2014, which this year is called 'Academic Development in a Post-Digital Age'. You can find the abstract for my keynote and more...
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Post-digital provocations #2: 'in the wake of' the digital
In this post I introduce the first of three sets of slides that would have been the backdrop to my keynote, had I been doing a standard keynote at the SEDA conference. However, as this is a flipped...
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