Archive for February, 2007

Kane, Beuys and The Hacker Ethic

Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic, just mailed me about a presentation he recently gave at Urban Learning Space called Soulitarian City? Looking for the ‘hacker ethic’ in Glasgow. It’s a fascinating insight into the way the hacker ethic is starting to seep into other cultures through open-source projects (both in the software realm […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 8th of February, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Readings 0 Comments

Creative Waves 2 Launches

The Omnium Research Group (Australia) is pleased to announce its latest ‘Creative Waves’ global e-learning project for 2007 - ‘Visualising Issues of Pharmacy’.

Co-Hosted by: The College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales (Australia) & The School of Pharmacy, The University of Auckland (New Zealand)

We’re very keen to spread the information about this far […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 1st of February, 2007 in Projects 0 Comments

Reflections on Learning Futures 2007

I [mentioned earlier on](http://blogs.omnium.net.au/main/2006/12/18/presentation-at-learning-futures-2007/ ) in January that I was was going to present at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance’s Learning Futures 2007 conference hosted by Gilly Salmon. I spoke on the topic of Converging and Emerging Online Cultures: creative collaboration and a future for learning and really looked at several different converging online cultures and […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 1st of February, 2007 in Presentations 0 Comments