Here’s one for politicians, leaders and project/programme managers of all types everywhere. Success is ephemeral but the possibility of chaos is eternal (paraphrased from Niall Ferguson’s High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg, 2010, Allen Lane). One of the great “benefits” of accumulating years is that you get to be a participant in, [...]
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Ebooks in the ‘e-filling station’?
May 20th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 20 May 2010 Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. Today’s posting is an addition to my de facto segue on ebooks, words and techno-anxiety a topic I’ve addressed at [...]
Quote: Television reaches parts that other media cannot reach?
May 3rd, 2010
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Television did it. It remains an enormously powerful medium. It brings human beings — their eyes and faces and thought patterns and personal effects — into your very living room. It shakes up existing feelings. It floods the frontal cortex not with policy but with personality. Whether I always agree with him or not does [...]
Technology to Enhance Learning in 2015?
April 26th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 26 April 2010 (updated 30 April 2010) Any views expressed in this posting are those of this author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing those of any other individual or organisation. I recently gave a presentation on the future uses of technology to enhance students’ learning experiences at a [...]
Road testing ‘Tales of Things’ and QR Codes
April 17th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 17 April 2010 So what’s are those strange objects embedded in this posting? Why are they there? The Tales of Things web site went live yesterday and so I’m using this posting to try it out. Tales of Things is part of the EPSRC funded TOTeM project which is exploring aspects of [...]
BBC World Service – a reference model … for the BBC?
April 10th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 10 April 2010 The following posting reflects the perspectives and opinions of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In my short essay ELESIG puts head (or toe) in the Clouds (Auricle, 23 March 2010) I reflected on some of [...]
The Collapse of Complex Business Models
April 8th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 8 April 2010 Clay Shirky’s online essay The Collapse of Complex Business Models (1 April 2010) should perhaps give all leaders of all types of organisation serious pause for thought. The key message of Shirky’s piece appears to be that leaderships and elites are comforted by organisational and bureaucratic complexity but that [...]
Where’s our Forum Network?
April 6th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 6 April 2010 The following posting reflects the perspectives and opinions of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In an earlier posting Are you digital natives paying attention? (Auricle, 6 February 2010) I highlighted the excellent US PBS Digital [...]
LSE Public Lecture Podcasts
April 2nd, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 2 April 2010 I’m always interested in sources of good quality material particularly those which wouldn’t normally be the first port of call for those seeking material related to learning and teaching in a digital world. The London School of Economics’ Podcasts archive is one such source. LSE is building a sizeable [...]
