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!

@marendeepwell Thanks for sharing and for your exemplary leadership of ALT! Wishing you every success in your next endeavour and of course a nice holiday first!

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...

@aeshaw sorry to hear this happened again. You will get there, and don’t be too hard on yourself. I always find you so eloquent and thoughtful (and hope this helps in its own tiny way)

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

@Ammienoot Yours in solidarity

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