Teaching
PhD Supervision
The OU part of my teaching is apprenticing PhD students of whom I’m very proud!
- Clara Mancini (2003, now Lecturer in Computing, Open University)
- Bertrand Sereno (2005, now Senior Faculty, Center for Creative Leadership, Brussels)
- Alexandra Okada (2006, now Research Associate, KMi)
- Anna De Liddo (2008, now Research Associate, KMi)
- Neil Benn (2009, now Researcher, Fujitsu Labs Europe)
- Joanna Kwiat (2009, now Northampton Borough Council)
- Al Selvin (2011, now Director, User Experience & Knowledge Management, Verizon USA)
- Duygu Simsek (2013—)
- Simon Knight (2013—)
Many of KMi’s technologies have application to e-PhDs, that is, part-time doctoral research conducted at a distance from the student’s supervisor and lab.
I regularly give tutorial introductions for professional development and doctoral summer schools, e.g.
- SoLAR Storm – a Distributed Research Lab providing doctoral training for Learning Analytics students
- 10th ICO International Research School – workshop leader for educational doctoral students
- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and online webinars: several invitational seminars delivered online on Learning Analytics
- Research as Hypermedia Discourse, “Nuts & Bolts” Research Methods Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes
- Visual Sensemaking for Contested Collective Intelligence, UK Visual Analytics PhD Summer School, Middlesex University
MBA course: Managing Knowledge
In 1999 the Open University Business School launched the first MBA level course on the hot topic of Managing Knowledge. I’ve been a course team member from the start, and contributed:
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Knowledge Technologies in Context (Course Unit): Conceptual foundations for the relationships between knowledge forms and technologies. -
The Cost of Knowledge (Course Unit): The costs of obtaining information and turning it into useful knowledge? Put it into practice in a collaborative sensemaking exercise in an internet team.
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Sensemaking in an Internet Team (Assignment): A novel internet-based assignment to reflect on the sensemaking and team processes involved in analyzing diverse information resources on the Web.
Managing Knowledge: An Essential Reader. Tried and tested OU selection of readings on the thorny issue of managing knowledge. The very idea…
Schools Work
We have to catch the next generation young if they’re to build the new literacies of the 21st Century. As Chair of Governors at Bushfield School in my home town of Wolverton, we’re exploring how we can introduce innovation and creativity in a very crammed national curriculum driven by exams. I blog on this under the Future Schools tag. Occasionally I run sessions introducing the work I do with NASA: “Mission to Mars!“…
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