Archives: March 2012

Text mining: removing the red flag

“It’s a complete no-brainer,” said Sir Mark Walport. The director of the Wellcome Trust was responding to JISC’s Digital Infrastructure Directions report into the value and benefits of text and data mining, which recommends that the UK should create a … Read more

Why “open education” matters

The first thing that has struck me about Open Education Week is how genuinely global it is. Scroll through the list of events and webinars and you’ll spot Brazil, Mexico, China, Korea, Africa, Spain, Europe. The big brand US universities … Read more

Open Education: becoming mainstream?

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” Writing in Simulacra and Simulation in 1981, Jean Baudrillard could scarcely have predicted the way in which the growth of a global network … Read more

St David’s Day: Researching Wales or Welsh history? / Dydd Gŵyl Dewi: Ymchwilio i Gymru neu hanes Cymru?

One of the most enduring miracles attributed to St David is that while he was preaching, he caused the ground to rise under him so that his audience could see and hear him, according to the Museum of Wales. There … Read more

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