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learning design long tail metaedtech journal metaphor monthly roundup mooc music oep oer oerhub oerresearchhub onlinepivot open access open content open courses open degree open education open models open textbooks openness ou ouedtech parody patents pedagogy personal photos ple podcast politics portal post ou powerpoint presentation privacy publications publishing reciprocity ref research resilience retirement review rss rules running shiny social media social objects sociallearn socialmediawatch spurs television travel twitter uncategorized unenlightenment vle web 2 0 web tech weblogs weekly writing wrongness yofl zombify music vinyl of the year yes it s time for the least anticipated post of the year i ve been doing this daily countdown over on instagram pity my followers so here it is all gathered into read more december 22 2022 monthly roundup writing january round up despite being 27 weeks into the year it is still only january apparently i gave a keynote at an informative event organised by the open university in wales pictured with read more january 29 2024 ai edtech slanty ed tech some of you may remember the slanty toilet seat that came out in 2019 it was a toilet seat that sloped downwards at a 13 degree angle the idea was read more february 16 2026 book writing fiction writing horror publication day august 21 2026 my new horror novel the h index is coming out on the 1st september as an indie horror writer all of the promotion comes down to you but luckily there are so many services willing to take my money to do it also some of these are better than others here s what i ve tried amazon ads mixed results probably broke even on what i spent and what i got back on my last book will try again with more refinement for this one bookbub you can set up campaigns in here discounted and promoted it didn t really produce any noticeable upturn last time but i think i may have read more mweller 2 comments higher ed the death of an academic august 18 2026 like most people working in higher ed i was horrified by the treatment and death of professor jason arday it was naked racism purely and obviously as a white man i don t have the voice to speak to that pain so here are some black writers who put it more eloquently than i ever could sneha krishnan writing for al jazeera correctly highlights the underlying motivation behind the campaign against arday saying there was no ambiguity from the beginning that this so called revelation of plagiarism was a cudgel it was a way to make a point that equality diversity and inclusion edi initiatives are supposedly academically dishonest she goes on read more mweller 4 comments ai slop will eat itself then us august 17 2026 many of you will have seen the story about anthropic and other ai companies buying books and destroying them in the process of digitising the reasons for destroying as opposed to just scanning them seems to be a mixture of cost and avoidance of copyright issues the need for this large scale process is because as was pointed out some time ago llms will suffer from model collapse that is they start to train themselves on their own content this undermines the argument often put forward by ai enthusiasts that it is only going to get better there is a real possibility that it is going to get worse as read more mweller 0 comments book writing books film monthly roundup music july 26 monthly round up july 29 2026 a busy month with my daughter having her cardiff masters graduation our purchase of our first electric vehicle a trip to newcastle and finalising my second book publication i also went to see the odyssey twice once with maren and once the way nolan intended in imax it s been interesting to see the online discussion about it i must admit i hadn t appreciated hitherto how many experts in ancient greece walked amongst us i also can t recall a film where so many people have opinions my insightful view is i quite enjoyed it as a piece of cinema i will note that many who criticise nolan s version seem to have read more mweller 0 comments book writing books horror new book cover reveal july 22 2026 my new horror novel the h index is coming out in september with morfa press here is the cover designed by roderick brydon i love it the cover builds off the style of the first book the recluse rules i m writing a series of novels all set on the welsh coast the books in this cursed coast series are all stand alone but they exist within the same universe a bit like stephen king s derry novels there s even an easter egg or two in them here is the cover the back cover blurb reads publish or perish just got real an isolated writing retreat on the welsh coast brings together read more mweller 3 comments asides unsubscribe me july 21 2026 when i left the ou i went through a process of unsubscribing from all the lists and circulars that had my work email listed these could be research bulletins newsletters products platform updates etc it was cathartic i try to do this periodically on my gmail account also but what i hadn t done was a real back catalog clear out i had around 90 000 emails which gmail placed in the updates folder and a similar number in the forums and promotions categories i ve used gmail as my main account since about 2008 i generally try to delete stuff as it comes in but even so it accumulates at one point read more mweller 0 comments book writing books monthly roundup music monthly round up june 26 july 1 2026 featured image we saw the cure perform an amazing set on the scorchingly hottest day of the year a month that almost resembled the old days of working i gave a keynote online had an external examiner meeting the end of my tenure for the fabulous warwick iatl courses and went to a conference i need a month off now i may blog this in more detail later but this month made me reflect that when i first left the ou i was quite focused on creating distance between my old identity of ed tech and open ed because i wanted to carve a new path but after a read more mweller 0 comments conference open education open phase x june 24 2026 as i mentioned in my previous post i went to oer26 this week back at the open university huge congrats to rob and beck for chairing such a great conference like all good conferences it helped crystallise some existing thoughts and prompted fresh ones so i ll probably do a couple of related posts from it the theme of the conference was looking back and looking forwards the conference started with an engaging keynote form my colleague eileen scanlon looking back over her career in open education and citizen science there was also a 20 years of openlearn panel and 30 years of jime retrospective this chimed with something i ve been read more mweller 6 comments conference go gn oer ahoy june 15 2026 i m off to milton keynes next week for oer26 it s my first time attending a conference just as joe public i even paid with my own cash they are celebrating 30 years of jime and 20 years of openlearn of course i know all of this is merely a ruse for the real celebration two years to the day since i left the ou there is a strong go gn presence there as you d expect so i m looking forward to catching up with all of those people i ve been back to the ou a few times since i departed and it combines a bit of a nostalgia hit along with read more mweller 0 comments ai metaphor tales from the riverbank june 8 2026 i was invited to give an online keynote to the pedaforum conference in finland last week their theme was sustainability of practice so i decided to lean into that idea of sustainability and draw on metaphors from ecology this came with my usual caveat of metaphors being drawn from nature being potentially dangerous i used three resilience invasive species and rewilding the main point i wanted to make however was not the metaphors themselves which were of course mindblowing but rather that as educators we need conceptual tools to make our practice sustainable the first question to ask in terms of sustainability of practice is sustainability of what the read more mweller 2 comments older posts ashe theme by wp royal