Amber Thomas, JISC. ALT-C September 2012
When ideals meet reality:lessons from open source, open
standards and open access
polar- -isation
VLEs are dead
MOOCstake over
The End of the university
I hate badges
“The use of technology seems to divide people into strong pro- and anti-camps
or perhaps utopian and dystopian perspectives”
Martin Weller, The Digital Scholar
key messages
We are all unique in our encounters with new things. Polarisation often masks the real questions. There is often a dialectic around open and free. Often it’s not just one model that comes to dominate. Sometimes when mainstreaming happens we don’t recognise it. Change can take a lot longer than we hope
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