video – Open Learning spaces

February 22, 2015

The 21st century enlightenment

Matthew Taylor explaining it!

February 18, 2014

The solar system

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU&w=560&h=315]
A pretty interesting model of our solar system. Worth watching and thinking about it. Vortex was a thing that Descartes already thought about
Part 2
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4V-ooITrws&w=560&h=315]

January 15, 2014

The full story of maths. Marcus de Sautoy – BBC four

Chapter 1: The language of the universe
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBdT1Dl_QY&w=560&h=315]
Chapter 2: The genius of the east
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax4s-4tQga8&w=560&h=315]
Chapter 3: The forntiers of space
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYXj515RhiM&w=560&h=315]
Chapter 4: To infinity and beyond
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKGIY54s1E&w=560&h=315]

December 14, 2013

21st Century Enlightenment

BBC Radio 4: A brief history of math

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

Henri Poincare

Georg Cantor

The Mathematicians Who Helped Einstein

3E education–> Keyth Smith

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 […]