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Achieving the impossible

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: August 17, 2010
Increasingly austere times are upon us, and despite a degree of ring-fencing of the education budget after the 2010 election, the future for education in the UK looks increasingly grim. Today we see further confirmation of a rumour in HE circles, that there looks likely to be a large cut in Higher Education funding in [...]
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CS60171

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: September 23, 2009
I teach a post-graduate course, Interactive System Design, at the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science. Over the next five weeks may post slides I use here. Don’t expect to see too many slide sets appear here, the module is mostly an experiential learning based course that provides an authentic project enactment experience for [...]
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Sounds of the Bazaar

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: March 15, 2009
I had fun chatting about PLEs with Graham Attwell on his Sounds of the Bazaar Internet radio show, including thinking on my feet as he threw questions at me just to see how I would field them.
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David Workman joins us

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: March 15, 2009
Dave Workman has joined us as on the technical side of the company. Dave was formerly one of my Interactive System Design (CS60171) students at the University of Manchester, and then went to work for EMCC Consultants, a company specialising in mobile phone software. Some of Dave’s software is incorporated in the Symbian code running [...]
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Marion Samler leaves ALT

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: March 5, 2009
Sadly for those of us in the UK elearning community, Marion Samler has left her post as Director of Operations at the Association of Learning Technology to take up a new role at Abingdon and Whitney College. I had the good fortune to work besides Marion as ALT’s Director of Development, and, in a show [...]
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Mark meets Darq

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: March 1, 2009
I met the guys from Darq at Dev8D, and a fine bunch of people they are, running a networking company in Shoreditch, with a sound and deep *nix and networking knowledge. Two of Darq appear with friends; in the background Andy McGregor and David Flanders of JISC. Darq and I subsequently had fun making a [...]
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