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Our Vice Chancellor gave a talk on Digital Scholarship the
other day, a topic that is often on my mind (read: trying to legitimise all
this messing around I do). Scholarship, or rather ‘having your scholarship
recognised’ which is what people really mean, is all about reputation.

My research group spent a successful day this week brainstorming and developing projects together.
We began by considering what we enjoy about research, and found that social and affective factors are hugely important to us. We wanted to carry out joyful research - visionary research - research that would engage us and make a difference to the world.

On the Couches for Learning 2.008 by cogdogblog

Below is the summary for a new project called Open Learning Network that I’m working on with OU colleagues Patrick McAndrew, Gráinne Conole and Andy Lane, and Candace Thille at Carnegie Mellon University. The objective is to build a distributed, open sensemaking community that pools collective intelligence on the impact that OERs are having.
At the [...]

... knew as soon as it happened that Britain had won a gold in the Olympics... without having a TV or hearing it on the radio

... joked with colleagues without seeing them face to face

... arranged to talk through an assignment without doing any talking

... read the news without ever picking up a newspaper

From Ross Anderson:

Found out this morning that the OU are going to be trialling unified messaging with MS Office Communicator. Up until now we’ve basically used email (and occasionally the phone!) to get in touch with colleagues, but we’ve never had any actual presence information alongside this  - so you’re not sure if someone is actually in [...]

If anything, as a blogger I find it insulting that Twitter is even considered to be in the same field as blogs or even micro-blogs.

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If anything, as a blogger I find it insulting that Twitter is even considered to be in the same field as blogs or even micro-blogs.

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