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		<title>Reforming the university: evolution or revolution? &#8211; A Response</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/09/08/reforming-the-university-evolution-or-revolution-a-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a ‘disenfranchised insider’ I really enjoyed reading Tony Bates’blog post ‘Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?’. In it Dr Bates discusses change in universities from a stakeholder point of view and considers Faculty, Students, Government and the Economy. He concludes by saying: My view is that universities do need to change quite radically, and


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		<title>Selling Solar Panels to Oil Sheiks</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/08/22/selling-solar-panels-to-oil-sheiks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a reflective mood on my Friday evening commute home I tweeted that: .bbpBox21648760374 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1281028705/images/themes/theme14/bg.gif) #131516;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:48px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Being an advocate of #elearning and #edtech in universities is a bit like trying to


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		<title>Response to: &#8216;Anatomy of a PLE&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/07/11/response-to-anatomy-of-a-ple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/07/11/response-to-anatomy-of-a-ple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a response to a blog post by Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth). I tried to post it as a comment but it was too large so here it is instead. Hi Steve, I like your diagrams. For what it&#8217;s worth I firmly believe that the PLE is a combination of tools that are wholly


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		<title>The PLE as a Single Tool and the Issue of Institutional Lock-in</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/07/08/the-ple-as-a-tool-and-institutional-lock-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a very enjoyable evening listening/watching the livestream of the opening unkeynote address at The PLE Conference facilitated by @courosa and @grahamattwell. The format was great, particularly for the tight buggers who didn’t pay the conference fees but were attending remotely from all over the world. Basically they presented a series of questions about


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		<title>Spoken Like a True Non-Academic</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/30/spoken-like-a-true-non-academic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting experience last month, I was asked to participate in focus groups to help a university IT services department develop its IT strategy for the next 5 years. The brief was to help generate ideas for what might be required to inform a five year strategy but we were also asked to


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		<title>A Draft Educational Technology Landscape Map</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/28/a-draft-educational-technology-landscape-map/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/06/28/a-draft-educational-technology-landscape-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a &#8216;map&#8217;. There are a number of such maps around already. Some of these are


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		<title>A Silly Game?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/05/22/a-silly-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 09:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday lunch time the hastag meme #lesserbooks started flowing into my Twitter stream. The aim of this game was to think of a book title that was a lesser version of a famous original. For example ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be posted as ‘The Modest Gatsby’, you get the picture. Similar memes go around from


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		<title>The Problem with MOPPs</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/05/16/the-problem-with-mopps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 06:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your university have a minimum online presence policy (MOPP)? Is it successful? I have a bit of a problem with MOPPs. I don’t think they work and, in fact, I think they are counterproductive. Here are my reasons: 1. Command and control Let’s face it universities aren’t corporations and never have been despite what


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		<title>Goodbye to eportfolios for a fee?</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/13/goodbye-to-eportfolios-for-a-fee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve argued for a while that, whilst I agree with the idea of eportfolios as a way of demonstrating student learning, I have a few concerns about the way that some universities have implemented eportfolios. I have always believed that an eportfolio should ‘belong’ to the student user and should be independant of the university.


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		<title>The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/01/03/the-decade-ahead-in-higher-edtech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s the end of the decade and the new one has just started. I thought that, in the name of a harmless bit of fun, I would stick my neck out and make a few predictions about where we might be going with edtech in universities over the next decade.  I&#8217;ve kept it brief


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