#h808

An album cover commission for H808 Beatz for his bop “Super KYE”. He wanted something cool and 80’s with Princess Peach so I brought some Miami 1984 to it!

On the value of keeping a diary then writing a blog

Fig.1 The final pages of my first Five Year Diary, 1975-1980

(Originally posted on The OU Student Blog platform as part the of their Master of Arts Open and Distance Education – MAODE)

I have in front of me the Five Year Diary I was given age 13 years 5 months. Each entry runs to about the length of a Twitter. I kept this up for 7 years, supplementing these entries with an A4 hard back journal…

E-portfolios in the Netherlands: Stimulus for educational change and life-long learning.

Aalderink and Veugelers.

Focus on competence-oriented education

Emphasis on student development

Fostering academic maturity

Net generation oriented

‘E-portfolios have the potential to offer clarity and flexibility, which various stakeholders in education have a particular need for, both in pedagogic and administrative processes.’

Not convinced of this.

Clarity of what?

A poorly constructed…

In fact any kind.

Coming out of H807 I felt I was ‘reading for a degree’ in the traditional sense of the words.

Entering H808 I found there’d be stuff I’d have to use, no escape.

In both instances I eventually got down to it; read masses in H807 and started to learn or relearn how to take an academic approach to research, reading and writing nad in H808 I tried everything, mastered some, reviewed…

A decade ago creating a commercial website generally required you to buy in the services of a specialist agency; this was certainly the case 15 years ago. Gradually however businesses found they could do it themselves, indeed the development of internal and external communications was so integral to a company’s activities that it had to be in some cases. An internationally successful TV…

Where do I stand academically? Where and what next? And the madness of being.

Master of Arts  in Open and Distance Education (MA ODE) with the Open University, UK (OU)

H800: Technology-enhanced learning: practices and debates

H807: Innovations in eLearning – Learning outcomes

H810: Accessible online learning: supporting disabled students

B822: Creativity, Innovation and Change

H808: The e-learning professional

This completes the Masters Degree. I graduate on Saturday 27th…

This has required a behavioural shift that I find I have carried into my every day life. I am less precious about what I do, open to critique, comment and sharing in a way that is liberating. It may be presumptuous to assume that all around me are as…