Author archives: David Kernohan

David Kernohan

About David Kernohan

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I am responsible for the JISC/Academy OER programme, and other work around the domain of learning resources and activities. I also input into work around strategy and policy.

Open Practice: University College Falmouth see the big picture

David Kernohan, 12 April 2012 Add a comment

The temptation within an innovative organisation like JISC is to concentrate on talking about what is new. But a chance conversation on twitter with Alex Di Savoia at University College Falmouth (UCF), holder of one of our early JISC/Higher Education … Read more

Open Education: becoming mainstream?

David Kernohan, 5 March 2012 3 comments

“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

OER in the field: institutions solving problems openly

David Kernohan, 28 October 2011 Add a comment

Is your institution ‘open’? Open education resources are becoming an essential component of academic practice. With the uncertainties of a new funding model to deal with, it is becoming harder than ever to convince institutional managers to support nice-to-have projects. … Read more

Online Distance Learning: whose future?

David Kernohan, 16 December 2010 8 comments

To me, one of the enormous surprises regarding the Browne review of Higher Education funding was the complete absence of any mention of online or blended delivery. Here was a report about the future of the delivery of education at … Read more

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