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		<title>Dropping out and dropping in &#8211; Steve Jobs and higher education</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/10/08/dropping-out-and-dropping-in-steve-jobs-and-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People that know me know that I didn&#8217;t always agree with Steve Jobs but I have no doubt of his creative skill and vision and his impact on modern life. I also think he had a huge impact on education and not always in the ways you might expect. I&#8217;ve been watching the Stanford University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud as a disruptor of educational technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2011/06/06/the-cloud-as-a-disruptor-of-educational-technologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of higher education institutions (HEIs) moving their student email (and, in many cases, staff email) to a cloud solution continues to grow. Every other day there is a new report one one HEI or other adopting either Google or Microsoft. Intrinsically I am not against this although I do find it interesting how [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/09/08/reforming-the-university-evolution-or-revolution-a-response/#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2010/08/22/selling-solar-panels-to-oil-sheiks/#comments</comments>
		<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: Being an advocate of #elearning and #edtech in universities is a bit like trying to sell solar panels to oil sheiksless than a minute ago via SeesmicMark Smithersmarksmithers That tweet seemed to strike a chord with some people and I can understand [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.masmithers.com/?p=378</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.masmithers.com/?p=347</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Ways Universities Will Change Over Ten Years</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/08/03/some-ways-universities-will-change-over-ten-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/08/03/some-ways-universities-will-change-over-ten-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I am currently working on a roadmap for educational technology in my university over the next ten years. Of course when looking over such a period it becomes crucial to try and anticipate the changing roles and functions of universities over that period so that we can think about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Technology Leadership in Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/07/16/information-technology-leadership-in-universities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/07/16/information-technology-leadership-in-universities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts on information technology leadership in universities.]]></description>
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		<title>A Strategy for Migrating Existing Course Content to Online Delivery</title>
		<link>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/06/10/a-strategy-for-migrating-existing-course-content-to-online-delivery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masmithers.com/2009/06/10/a-strategy-for-migrating-existing-course-content-to-online-delivery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two years, whilst working at La Trobe University’s Division of Nursing and Midwifery, we developed a strategy that would enable academic staff to leverage their existing lecture materials in such a way as to allow them to move into flexible, online delivery relatively easily. I have called it a strategy; it is actually such a simple approach that it barely deserves the term strategy.]]></description>
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