I’m actually quite a supporter of iTunes U, even though people don’t like that you have to enter it via the iTunes client. iTunes client is free and the resources are downloadable. I watched a fantastic series on Justice, by Michael Sandel through iTunes U. Even though the client is …

I have been a learning technologist for 10 years and in that time I have seen at least 3 VLE silos being emptied or recycled or replaced. Change is inevitable when it comes to technology, for sure, but is this the type of change we want, especially as we interact …

Just responding to a forum post on the #ocTEL website and though I would write this down as a blog. Sugata Mitra presents of a Self Organising Learning Environment at ALT-C in 2009. There is also a critique of this available at http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/sugata-mitra-slum-chic-7-reasons-for.html Having spoken with Sugata at the 2009…

I have just been to the first webinar of the #octel mooc https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.DE7761F09D9A3D6F03A998E592ED6D, where the chat window was discussing the pedagogy behind moocs, whether it is anything new, whether we can accredit from a MOOC (how can we do the marking) and other things…

To continue this thread I…

Just trying to subscribe to the interesting blogs on #octel. Why is it so difficult to get an RSS feed from WordPress or Blogger? It’s hard just to find the link..

Is RSS going the way of the Google Reader, or is there time left yet?

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Thought I would blog on this one. Please do comment if you have anything to add.

Perusing through the ocTEL mailing lists, I have noticed that a few people are talking about who does the driving in this relationship. The commonly held view is that pedagogy should come first and …

MOOC is a popular word buzzing around universities at the moment, and some people are talking about Udacity, Coursera, FutureLearn like they are going to be the be all and end all for higher education. Much of the content for these platforms is video, and there has been some notable …

I recently presented a lecture on the connections between open source software development and open educational resources. The full lecture is viewable @ http://lancasteruni.adobeconnect.com/p1n8dhcmfhp/ (link working 12/4/12).

I thought I would expand this in a blog post (we don’t all have multimedia capable browsers or connections!) as I think their …

In Uruguay, every schoolkid has a laptop. A hard cased plastic laptop with wifi and a webcam. Costs a couple of hundred dollars, probably a lot less. Kids can use these laptops for whatever they like, not just schoolwork. What do you think happens – they spend all day on …

Back to ancient Greece again.

Protagoras was a sophist who lived around the same time as Socrates. Essentially he disagreed with the Socratic notion that there are ‘forms’ that exist outside ourselves, such as virtue and justice, and it is the goal of the philosopher to teach people the ‘external’ …

Why Sophistry Blog’?

This blog is primarily about education, learning, pedagogy, technology, futures, but the word ‘sophistry’ takes us right back to the start of Western Philosophy – Socrates, Plato and early definitions of scholarship. Today the word ‘sophistry’ takes on a negative meaning – “a specious argument used for deceiving someone” …