How Open is Open Access
Sep
17
2023
Open Access (OA) has always been thought about as a way to throw open the doors of reading and publishing academic work. To encourage anyone and everyone to read expert peer reviewed knowledge from a wide range of subject areas, and that academics,…
/ Read MoreOil of the 21st Century
Apr
30
2023
Back in 2007, a movement sprang up and immediately gained prominent attention, known as 'the Oil of the 21st Century' (aka Oil21). Their message was that intellectual property would become the most valuable…
/ Read MoreThe Challenges of Peer Review
May
06
2022
This post is about dealing with difficult peer review, particularly reviewers who are rude and patronising. It’s made up of three posts shared in Facebook and I reproduce largely intact.
Dealing with negative peer review is always interesting.…
/ Read MoreSmart Learning really is a thing
Dec
10
2020
Catching up on current happenings in smart urban creative and learning initiatives using digital interactions to engage with place and the city
I’m following up again on my continuing academic assertion that situated digitally mediated creativity,…
/ Read MoreA pedagogical landscape of information
Dec
23
2018
Google Lens will soon become standard Android camera technology, permitting the smart retrieval of knowledge content associated with stuff we view through our smartphone camera. For some further context, I… / Read More
The Art and Science of Survival
Sep
10
2013
I like Blurb books. I’ve made a few, but my favourite is a collection of poems created to match images initially grouped only because they ‘looked good together’. The idea was to start with the image, then think of a matching title, then write the…
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