Sheila MacNeill
Here are the notes and the slides from what is (I hope) my last talk of 2014. I gave this this evening to University of Mary Washington, and then turned around and presented it again (online) to Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt's class EC&I 831.
Before there was mansplaining, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction. Image from Flickr via Ed Yourdon By Rebecca Solnit By arrangement with Tom Dispatch One evening over dinner, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called "Men Explain Things to Me."
Here are the transcript and slides from the talk I gave this morning at OpenCon 2014. I was a little nervous as to how well this would be received -- nothing like challenging the meaning of a word that makes up the title of the conference.
Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was "useful idiots" and it applied to a good many people who should have known better.
This Thursday - November 6th at 1:30pm - I'm a guest in George Veletsianos' #scholar14 open course, talking about networks as places of care and vulnerability. It's a Google hangout, so the talk will be an informal back and forth, open (I hope?) to multiple voices if folks want to join in.
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""in open networks, a networked identity is the price of admission."**
What's the difference between a MOOC and a "traditional" online course? It sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but trying to find a reasonable answer to this question is no joke. Take the following quote from an end of 2014 article about MOOCs as an example.
Look up mainstream in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
This is the first report from ALT's new Annual Survey launched in December 2014. This survey was primarily for ALT members (individual or at an organisation which is an organisational member) it could however also be filled in by others, perhaps those interested in taking out membership.
Having got my promotion case through the sub-Faculty level committee (with support and encouragement from senior departmental colleagues), it's time for another complete rewrite to try to get it though the Faculty committee. Guidance suggests that it is not inappropriate - and may even be encouraged - for a candidate to include something about their...
I should state before I even get started on this post, that I am a big advocate of openness; I have managed a JISC-funded project on OER and am currently researching aspects of the 'movement'. However, this is the first post in a series that I'm calling 'Sceptic Week' (a few posts that will critically reflect upon and question movements that I fully support).
Open Educational Practices and Digital Skills for a Digital European Union The recent Digital Agenda's following the Stakeholder Forum on Europe's new digital priorities provided plenty of strategic links and action bridges to Education in the Digital Era discussion conference .
The other day I took part in my first 'Twitter Journal Club' (#TJC15) facilitated by Laura Gogia from Virginia Commonwealth University's AltLab. The experience was exciting, disruptive, thoughtful. Lots of things. You can see the various streams here. This TJC event occurred at a moment when I am re-thinking my sense of being an...
Open source simply isn't open source without a proper license. Unless you've explicitly told others that they can modify and reuse your work, you've only showed others your code; you haven't shared it.
There have been a number of responses to my decision to introduce a 5th R - " Retain" - to my 4Rs framework. Bill, Darren, and Mike have responded, among others. Some parts of the responses lead me to believe that I wasn't entirely clear in my initial statement, so let me try to clear a few things up.
