Counting down to ECEl 2011 at Brighton

The conference website is showing 2 days, 18 hours and 48 minutes to go before Mithras House in Brighton Business School welcomes 200 delegates to ECEL 2011. With three great keynotes and over a hundred academic papers plus a doctoral symposium, we are going to be busy. We have mini-tracks on accessibility awareness in e-learning [...]

Rhodes sunshine and genuine community learning at ICICTE

This year’s ICICTE conference, my second visit but it’s been a while, was a good learning experience. The link here to the conference website shows the visual evidence, photos from every day of the conference and a great way to remember the names of new friends. here are Antonis and Olga from Greece, Andrea and [...]

Keynote at Estonian conference on e-learning

Link to Conference website where the video of this keynote can be seen along with other interesting takes on e-learning http://www.ut.ee/547971

CAL 09 Brighton March 2009

Great conference in the Hilton Metropole, Brighton, ably hosted by Chairman Avril Loveless in Education and Sport. http://www.cal-conference.elsevier.com/ is conference website. Wonderful to hear Diana Laurillard, Josie Taylor, Roger Saljo, Dave Cliffe, Grainne Conole and so many more VIPs in the elearning world. A few byte-size bits of info from the conference: Dave Cliffe talked [...]

Estonia: school from education to learning space euni09tartu

Conference in Tartu from 2-3 April 09. http://conference2009.e-uni.ee/index.php?n=en&do=20 is website for conference. Estonian teachers in vocational and higher education gathered in Tartu for a conference with international speakers. So many shared problems, so many worries and fears around online learning, so many varying definitions. My papers on the changing teacher role and the plasticity of [...]

metaphors for education institutions

Managerial metaphors? seems we are all moving towards them, not just because I work in a business school. At ALT C there was talk of managing change, strategies needed, policies, targets, objectives. Just intrusive common language I suppose, yet I wonder if we are letting this metaphor take over? Universities as learning communities – to [...]