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Video Open Education: Condition Critical Now Online

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To coincide with the publication of Open Education: A Study in Disruption, we organised a panel discussion on Open Education: Condition Critical, last October. The video recording of this panel is now online, and you can find it on our YouTube channel or embedded underneath. The video includes presentations by Sean Dockray, Pauline van Mourik…

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Open Education book now available open access

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Following on from the recent Open Education: Critical Condition event, the book on Open Education by Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Gary Hall et al (and published by Rowman and Littlefield International), is now available for free, open access, here: http://bit.ly/open-ed-reader [site can be slow to load, so please be patient] Co-authored by Coventry University’s Open…

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Open Education: Condition Critical

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Open Education: Condition Critical A panel exploring opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of what the university and education can be Thursday November 20th 4:30-6:30pm Coventry University Disruptive Media Learning Lab 3rd floor Frederick Lanchester Library Panellists: Sean Dockray (The Public School) – via Skype Richard Hall (De Montfort University Leicester) Shaun…

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Disruptive Media Learning Lab Now Open

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The Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), a new innovative teaching, learning and study space, is a cross-university experimental unit comprising of academics, learning technologists, subject librarians, educational developers and researchers. The Lab is based in the heart of Coventry Uiversity’s campus in a newly refurbished space on the top floor of the Frederick Lanchester Library,…

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Facebook: Why beheadings … and not breasts?

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Facebook’s decision to allow the uploading and sharing of extreme/graphic content — including beheadings — but to censor ‘offensive’ images of the naked female body makes no sense in a conventional media setting. More seriously perhaps, we all need to question what it means that so pivotal a social media platform is re-defining social precedents and norms…

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