Dick Sblog

Sometimes I’m just amazed at the ideas people have. Today I went to two events that had innovation at their hearts. At one, I met Matthew Thurling who has, single handedly and with almost no support, set up science.tv If you are interested in science, as I am, this is a great site – a [...]

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I do so like a nice bit of irony.
Here am I, quietly banging on to noone in particular about the need to develop skills of collaboration amongst our students, particularly in distributed working environments., when along comes Peter Kingston in the Guardian with a piece about an unpublished report on the Learning and Skills Council.
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I recently applied for money to fund a project addressing the issue of work related learning. Predictably,  my approach was focused on distributed working. The growth in flexible/home based and distributed working is one of the most significant changes to working practice in recent years and with the pressure on to reduce travel costs and [...]

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