Deborah Arnold

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PhD in education and ICT, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Interested in digital educational, third space and higher education leadership
Senior Fellow of EDEN Digital Learning Europe and Chair of the Fellows Council Board
https://eden-europe.eu/eden-fellows-council/

@ZekuZelalem There is a famous quote that always gets twisted. "My country. Right or wrong."

The full quote goes on: "If right, to be kept right. If wrong, to be made right."

edit: It seems this is not Japanese at all, please see replies for corrections!

It looks like it is time to leave the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. But I will miss it. Here's why ...

https://acreelman.blogspot.com/2023/07/farewell-twitter-breaking-up-is-hard-to.html

Farewell Twitter - breaking up is hard to do

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash It looks like it is time to leave the sinking ship of the app formerly known as Twitter after almost ...

I'm not one for new year's resolutions, but just maybe I'll be able to keep this up for a while, as I work through a backlog of recommended papers from my various alerts. Today's article of interest is this one, which addresses the research question
"how to redefine university governance structures and
methods while maintaining traditional academic norms and values" https://gnpje.sgh.waw.pl/-Hard-vs-Soft-Managerialism-How-to-Reform-Universities-and-Let-Them-Remain-Universities,154834,0,2.html
#OpenAccess #HigherEducation #Governance #AcademicValues
“Hard” vs. “Soft” Managerialism: How to Reform Universities and Let Them Remain Universities

The transformation of academic institutions inspired by the ideas of New Public Management introduces a new paradigm of university governance. The essence of the new university model is the transfer of corporate authority structures and managerial practices to the academic institutional...

Here's the full presentation page for my talk 'Universities at the Crossroads:Technologies, values and the role of the institution' with slides, audio, video and transcript: https://www.downes.ca/presentation/568

Sorry about all the messages around this; this is the last one

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

I mostly use mobile/tablet
60.3%
It's within a margin of error of an even split
19.2%
I mostly use desktop/laptop
19.9%
don't want to vote, but want to see poll results
0.7%
Poll ended at .

The LSE Digital Ethnography Collective Reading List is a *profound* resource for scholars in STS, media studies, digital sociology, and the like.

Kudos to @ZoeGlatt for managing it! ✨

#STS #commodon #DigitalSociology #Ethnography

https://zoeglatt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LSE-Digital-Ethnography-Collective-Reading-List-June-2022.pdf

I wrote about being a teen in the 1980s, reading a social and political history of Malls, and what it made me think about social media platforms and the public sphere https://www.donnalanclos.com/meet-me-by-the-fountain/
Meet me by the Fountain | Donna Lanclos

The slides from my presentation "Digital Education Leadership: from challenging times towards preferred futures" at the 2022 International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change https://www.slideshare.net/DeborahArnold/digital-education-leadership-from-troubled-times-towards-preferred-futures
Digital Education Leadership: from troubled times towards preferred f…

Presentation given at the 2022 International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change, Universitat Oberta de Cataluyna, 17th …

Great seminar at UOC yesterday, in which the excellent Jill Jameson also presented findings from this important systematic review. We have our work cut out if we want to reach a higher level of research maturity in this area https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/37922/
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University of Greenwich
Book arrived just in time for my train journey to Barcelona and looks like a perfect complement to what we’ll be discussing in tomorrow’s #DigitalEducation #Leadership research seminar #ReadingList @jaross