Teaching for Creativity and Innovation: an educational conundrum
Probably my favourite method of relaxation is to pick up my guitar in the privacy of my own home and pick away at a few chords. I occasionally even produce the ...
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The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education
The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...
The Persistent Fetish: the printed book in the digital age
The book, as we have known and loved it for half a millennium and more, is an object of veneration for many. I am undeniably a bibliophile, and while it is most...
M-Learning Goes Mainstream
Each day, more than half a million new connections are made to the Internet. 500,000 people who were not on the Internet yesterday are today taking their first ...
Schooling: “the pyramid of classified packages”
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can b...
Scottish Open Education Declaration
Open education can promote knowledge transfer while at the same time enhancing quality and sustainability, supporting social inclusion, and creating a culture o...
The Guerrilla Gardener of South Central LA
The funny thing about sustainability? You have to sustain it…. Those who, often with good cause, criticise TED talks for promoting a cult of preening prat...
Dissent and Disloyalty
The great American commentator, Edward Murrow, that country’s voice of integrity through the Second World War and beyond, wrote some words that come to m...