When introducing this event on Learning Metrics last week, Roger Broadie, Chief Executive of the European Education Partnership, suggested that academic researchers have been unwilling to draw together a common base of learning theory on which to build measures of learning. Meanwhile practitioners have a job to do and have to get stuck in and […]
Month: December 2004
Christian Marclay at Tate Modern
Here are a couple of grainy longshots taken with my so-last-year’s-model camera phone at last night’s Christian Marclay gig at the Tate Modern. The gig was tied into Marclay’s Sounds of Christmas project, which is showing at the Tate until Christmas. Marclay is another example of an artist who presents his collections as art: in […]
The limitations of search for supporting learning
Search engines have a high profile on the web, and understandably so. The web changes faster than any human attempt to catalogue it. For most people’s purposes in answering specific questions, Google works most of the time — which is a recipe for success. But the kind of success Google has enjoyed, and the way […]
Jim Griffin on paying for music
At this Playlouder/Music Ally event last night, Jim Griffin from Cherry Lane Digital presented a very concise and simple argument for change in the way music is paid for. This is how it went, based on my notes, with editorial comments in [square brackets].
Content vanishes from BBC web sites
At the end of last week the redesigned BBC 6 Music web site was launched. In the process of its revamp, the site has lost much of the specialist content that made it unique. For example, the Kings of the Wild Frontier pages that I wrote about here have gone, as have all the interviews […]
UK Lifelong Learner Profile (UKLeaP): draft for comment
The draft of this British Standard (BS 8788) is now available from BSI for public comment. I’m not sure of the deadline for comments, but it is usually two or three months from publication. Depending on the comments received, the final standard (which includes guidance, a code of practice and a specification) will be published […]
Back-of-a-fag-packet prescription for the music industry
In preparation for this afternoon’s event, here are my notes of the main points I’m planning to make. I reserve my right to change my mind in the light of how the discussion evolves! The good news for the music industry from recent experience is that people’s demand for music is showing no signs of […]