Aim for success, not perfection.

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Melissa Highton

I am spending the day at the New Strategies for Digital Content Conference in London, at the charmingly named Goodenough College. The RunCoCo project has presented about the support they give to community collection digitisation projects. There are many questions … Continue reading →

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institutional strategy

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Melissa Highton

If you want to hear me go on a bit again the Open University are hosting an event in Nottingham next Friday (11 March) titled ‘Institutional Strategies for OER’ at which I am speaking. The event seeks to explore the … Continue reading →

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transparent stars

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Melissa Highton

In his keynote at ICTD2010 Sir Tim Berners-Lee promoted his five star plan for deploying open linked data.  Apparently you can get mugs and badges. I had a very odd conversation about badges for accreditation at the Mozilla Drumbeat Learning … Continue reading →

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development for development

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Melissa Highton

At ICTD2010 ( that’s Information and Communications Technology for Development) at RHUL ( that’s Royal Holloway University of London) this week I attended fascinating papers on mobile learning for maternal health in Rwanda, increased social standing for kiosk operators in … Continue reading →

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research data discipline

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Melissa Highton

At our researchers’ event this morning we  invited participants to vote for the topics they would most like to hear about.  The winners were, in order: “Getting your voice heard, your name known and your work cited” “Planning a research … Continue reading →

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funny is a graduate skill?

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Melissa Highton

On Monday evening the finest entrepreneurial minds of Silicon Valley gathered in Oxford as part of the ten year anniversary of Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford. The Oxford MBA students are building new businesses faster than the naked eye can … Continue reading →

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it’s on the internet so it must be true

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Melissa Highton

Any suggestion that Oxford University does not pay attention to  new pedagogy is surely contradicted by the fabulous range of evening seminars I am enjoying this week. Dr Neil Morris on Tuesday, Dr Martin Oliver on Wednesday and  Professor Miriam … Continue reading →

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3.86 tonnes of CO2

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Melissa Highton

3.86 tonnes of CO2  for two return flights to Malaysia, not to mention the speaker fees, the hotel and the opportunity cost to OUCS…. Rather than make that kind of impact, Stuart Lee and I presented at a conference in … Continue reading →

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conferencing is not working

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Melissa Highton

Last month I attened a conference  organised by Oxford Internet Institute at which Arthur Lupia discussed getting and retaining attention for political action : in order to successfully persuade others (in any benign meaning of course) he posits three necessary … Continue reading →

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jungle drums

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Melissa Highton

The Mozilla Drumbeat Festival claims to be all about learning things by making things, which sounds very similar to Constructionism 2010. The delegates look different though…. I engaged a young revolutionary in a conversation about turtle logos, but i suspect … Continue reading →

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