Comments for Paul Hollins http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1 Cetis Blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 Comment on A New Future for CETIS by My Redundancy Letter Arrived Today « UK Web Focus http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2012/12/20/a-new-future-for-cetis/#comment-61 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:58:01 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=85#comment-61 […] vaguely worded announcements appeared today on the UKOLN and CETIS websites. As cited by Brian Kelly, “In response to the Wilson review of Jisc, the […]

]]> Comment on A New Future for CETIS by Announcement: UKOLN – Looking Ahead « UK Web Focus http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2012/12/20/a-new-future-for-cetis/#comment-60 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:55:29 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=85#comment-60 […] that a similar announcement has been published by CETIS. I think it is clear that 2013 will provide interesting […]

]]> Comment on Education is about compromise, a negotiated social contract by The purpose of education must be to nurture optimism. « The Blog of Yog http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2012/05/08/education-is-about-compromise-a-negotiated-social-contract/#comment-59 Mon, 14 May 2012 00:02:02 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=74#comment-59 […] cuts are biting and schools are expected to do more for less. There will inevitably be some compromises and I am less optimistic that students at comprehensive schools will get the chance to be a judge […]

]]> Comment on Education is about compromise, a negotiated social contract by Doug Belshaw http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2012/05/08/education-is-about-compromise-a-negotiated-social-contract/#comment-57 Wed, 09 May 2012 18:02:41 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=74#comment-57 Thanks for the contribution, Paul! What an interesting approach – noting that education (as opposed to learning) will always be a compromise due to having to satisfy diverse stakeholders.

]]> Comment on The ICT Dilemma facing Senior Management in FE by Paul Richardson http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2010/02/28/the-ict-dilema-facing-senior-management-in-fe/#comment-56 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:45:48 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=60#comment-56 This is a very useful posting, which helps towards explaining some of the complexities involved, and may help to depolarise the argument (eventually). It is very possible to argue cogently for the teaching/learning benefits of social networking, and the evidence is starting to build on this one (see e.g. Gloucester College (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8299050.stm). However, there is another side to this story, and this posting is a timely reminder that there are multiple stakeholders here, all with potentially radically different perspectives. It is essentially a risk management issue, which may be distorted to ‘rik minimisation’ by people with strong concerns. This is not healthy, and may well be accentuated by the Ofsted weighting of criteria. No easy answers, but good to discuss this! There is sometimes too much emphasis on the ‘impact’ side of risk management, and not enough recognition that blocking is not the only way to reduce the likelihood of bad things happening.

]]> Comment on Higher Ambitions The Future of Universities in the Knowledge Economy by Higher Ambitions: The Future of Universities in a Knowledge Economy | Digital Fingerprint http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2009/11/06/higher-ambitions-the-future-of-universities-in-the-knowledge-economy/#comment-44 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:11:15 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=38#comment-44 […] Read the full report (115 pages), or Executive Summary (20 pages) published by the Department for Business, Information and Skills (PDF), and also an interesting blog in response. […]

]]> Comment on Digital Inclusion what is the message ? by asimong http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2009/10/13/digital-inclusion-what-is-the-message/#comment-39 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:08:17 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=36#comment-39 Paul, this strikes me as sound stuff. Perhaps we could try to shift the term used from “digital inclusion” — prisons want to include people as well — to “digital invitation” along with “digital motivation”, which would emphasise the centrality of giving people the informed choice you are writing about.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on the Amazon “Kindle” by Matthew Buckett http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2008/01/31/thoughts-of-the-amazon-kindle/#comment-8 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:24:39 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2008/01/31/thoughts-of-the-amazon-kindle/#comment-8 A friend was saying how Amazon seems a little confused, allowing downloads of DRM free content with one hand (MP3s) and then creating a big DRM solution for Kindle. Part of this is probably due to trying to take on iTunes with music whereas there isn’t a dominant player in the downloadable books space yet.

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]]> Comment on Reflections on the Ten Competence Conference Manchester by Alexewec http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2007/01/18/reflections-on-the-ten-competence-conference-manchester/#comment-6 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:22:56 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2007/01/18/reflections-on-the-ten-competence-conference-manchester/#comment-6 Hello, my name is Alex, i’m a newbie here. I really do like your resource and really interested in things you discuss here, also would like to enter your community, hope it is possible:-) Cya around, best regards, Alex!

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