Head of Knowledge Media at IRISS. Particularly interested in social media and how we can get better access to it in the workplace.
I’ll be running a workshop on the social dimensions of learning at Learning Essentials, the Elearning Alliance conference on Friday 31 October at West Lothian College, Livingston. In a recent… Read More »Learning: the social dimension
Debbie Lucas is a staff development officer in a local authority social work department. She took part in the IRISS Personal Learning Network Challenge to learn more about using social… Read More »Personal learning networks: feedback from the IRISS Challenge
In a recent blog post marking the 25th anniversary of the Web, Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, observed that our social… Read More »Introducing Kristina and her personal learning network
In the LinkedIn Digital Leaders group I posted the story about a local authority banning its staff from participating in work related discussions on a Yammer network (see previous… Read More »Let’s educate rather than regulate
… everybody who wishes to access the internet should be able to and … it is the role of government to ensure that everybody in our… Read More »Yammer? Not here you don’t.
About 30 people from the public, private and third sectors along with some from academia and NGOs gathered at last week’s Digital Leaders Scotland Salon which looked at how… Read More »Participation in the workplace: it does work
What, asks Steph Gray in his Postbureaucrat blog, holds people back from using digital tools and techniques at work? Do they need someone to tell them what… Read More »What’s holding us back?
The Royal Society of Edinburgh this week published the results of its inquiry into digital participation. According to the report, Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation,… Read More »Shhh! There’s an elephant in the room
In mid 2012 the Finch Report heralded the ‘’the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet‘. By 2014 all publicly… Read More »Research Unbound: the future of research dissemination
The interim report of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s inquiry into spreading the benefit of digital participation in Scotland – published on 4 December 2013 –… Read More »An undeniable right to digital inclusion?