September 2013 – Open Learning space

Seven Habits of the Professor of the Future | Contact North

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Seven Habits of the Professor of the Future | Contact North.

Oxford Mathematics and Mathematicians

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This is the text of a lecture by the late I. W. Busbridge, who was appointed to a lecturership in mathematics at St Hugh's College in 1938, and who was a fellow of the College from 1945 to 1970. She died in 1988. It is reproduced here without revision, as…

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Twenty Questions about Mathematical Reasoning

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Lynn Arthur Steen, St. Olaf College The concluding chapter in NCTM's 1999 Yearbook which is devoted to mathematical reasoning: Developing Mathematical Reasoning in Grades K-12. Lee Stiff, Editor. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1999, pp. 270-285 We begin with two warm-up questions. First, why is mathematics an integral part of…

I Am, Therefore I Think

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I Am, Therefore I Think

Teacher Education in Finland

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Teacher Education in Finland.

Open Resources

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Open Resources Open Books

Download Active Calculus

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Download Active Calculus. An interesting tool a discovered in Matt Boelkins blog

Mathematics Education Forum

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Mathematics Education ForumOnline forum on Mathematics Education hosted by the London Mathematical Society

Isaac Asimov predicted the Internet of today 20 years ago

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http://youtu.be/8ZmFEFO72gA MInute 5 is very relevant for the idea of Personalized Learning Environment

A more accurate way of measuring the effect of computer games – podcast November 24, 2020 Presented by Alex Hern and produced by David Waters
From the archive: an interview with Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose (part 2) - podcast November 19, 2020 Presented by Ian Sample and produced by Max Sanderson
From the archive: an interview with Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose (part 1) - podcast November 17, 2020 Presented by Ian Sample and produced by Max Sanderson
Covid-19: what can we learn from the London blitz? – podcast November 12, 2020 Presented by Ian Sample and produced by David Waters
Covid-19: what's up with the coronavirus cough? – podcast November 10, 2020 Presented by Linda Geddesand produced by David Waters and Madeleine Finlay

Nicolas Bourbaki
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force […]
Hardy and Ramanujan
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force […]
Henri Poincare
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force […]
Georg Cantor
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force […]
The Mathematicians Who Helped Einstein
This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the present day, reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force […]

Fears, hopes and reimaginings: learning and teaching within, through and beyond the pandemic (#SOLSTICE2020)
For many years I have had the privilege of attending and presenting at a number of the annual SOLSTICE technology-enhanced learning conferences run by Edge Hill University, presenting in latter years in my role as a Visiting Professor in education within the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Edge Hill University. Due to the COVID-19 […]
Overview and thanks – ‘Digital Learning: The Key Concepts (Second Edition)’
In my first blog posts of 2019, back in March, I was sharing news of the book ‘Conceptualising the Digital University: The intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice’ which myself and my good friends and colleagues Bill Johnston and Sheila MacNeill had just had published. Our book was a labour of love, informed by several […]
Conceptualising the digitally distributed curriculum at #SOLSTICE19
On Wednesday 5th June this week I’m presenting at the annual SOLSTICE 2019 e-learning conference at Edge Hill University, which is organised and run as a joint conference by Edge Hill’s SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (@SolsticeCETL) and the Centre for Learning and Teaching at EDU (@CLTatEHU). The joint SOLSTICE and CLT […]
Coming full (culture) circle at #OER19 – Part 1
This is the first of two blogs posts that accompany the session “Unpacking the geopolitics of open for the strategic development of (HE) institutions and communities – what is a university for?” that Sheila MacNeill, Bill Johnston and myself ran on day one of #OER19 on 10th April. Sheila will post Part 2, reflecting on […]
My inspirational women #IWD2019
For International Women’s Day 2019, the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands are running our second annual #InternationalWomensDay event. Our #IWD2019 organisers Alex Walker and Ann Tilbury, two inspiring women, asked everyone who is participating today to share in advance their own inspirational women. This is who I chose […]
Thanks and acknowledgements for ‘Conceptualising the Digital University’
Long before we got to the point of having an opportunity to write the book that became ‘Conceptualising the Digital University: The Intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice’, Bill Johnston, Sheila MacNeill and myself benefited from early discussions and dialogue about the idea and implications of the ‘digital university’ with a great many colleagues across the […]
Recently published – Conceptualising the Digital University: The intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice
Well, it’s almost exactly a year since my last blog post. I blog sporadically, so it’s likely no one has noticed! It’s not good practice to blog so infrequently, although I have a good reason. Around this time last year, my friends and colleagues Bill Johnston, Sheila MacNeill and myself were undertaking, in earnest, the writing […]
Open practice and praxis in the context of the Digital University. #OER18
This week saw the latest in a small series of writing workshops for Bill Johnston, Sheila MacNeill and myself for our forthcoming book Conceptualising the Digital University: Intersecting policy, pedagogy and practice (Palgrave). Our work on this book has been a very enjoyable slow-burn, originating five or so years ago with the application of Sheila and […]
Student transitions to, within and beyond Higher Education. Special Issue of JPAAP.
Over the last few months I have been working with Lorraine Anderson (University of Dundee) and Roni Bamber (Queen Margaret University) to co-edit a new Special Issue of the online, open access Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (JPAAP). The theme of the Special Issue is Student Transitions and the issue has been published in partnership […]
Situating digital space and place within the Porous University
Over the 5th and 6th of June I am at the joint SOLSTICE and CLT Conference 2017 at Edge Hill University. The programme is a rich and interesting one, as it always is at this event, and features a range of speakers from across and beyond the UK. On day two I will be presenting a […]