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Preparing the Artist of Tomorrow

Teachers’ Academy, ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts), Utretcht and Amsterdam, 24-26th June 2013. Jonathan will be presenting at the Teachers’ Academy over in the Netherlands next week. This session will be a continuation of his collaboration with John Casey, Open Education Project Manager at University of the Arts London. Reimagining the Art College in the 21st century John… Read more →

Taking care of business: OER and the bottom line

Jonathan will be presenting “Taking care of business: OER and the bottom line” alongside John Casey from UAL and Shaun Hides on Wednesday 27th March at OER13, hosted this year by Nottingham University, UK. Details of the paper: This paper reflects on the experience of two Art, Design and Media (ADM) studies based institutions participating in a short project to explore… Read more →

Video and Open Source (M)OOCs

Jonathan is delighted to have been invited to present at Video Vortex #9, Lüneburg. He will be talking about his research into open education [Video and Open Source (M)OOCs] with a particular focus on ideas of hybridity and exploratory practices within higher education. Video Vortex is an international conference series addressing online video for its 9th edition we ask how do… Read more →

21st Century Education and the Connected Classroom

  Last month a film crew from Ericsson took the time to travel over to the UK and film a short video about the ‘Future of Education’. The company have been really interested in our approach and the work that we have been doing across the breadth of my department at Coventry University. Ericsson are seeking to think ahead and as… Read more →

Open Education Conference October 16-18th 2012, Vancouver

Jonathan will be joining his colleagues Shaun Hides, Pete Woodbridge and Matt Johnston to speak about their Open Media work at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver later this month. Jonathan will be talking about ‘Open Media: the Future’ where he will be linking together our recent and future uses of diverse tools and platforms– e.g. Blogs, Vimeo, Flicker, Abode DPS, iBooks,and… Read more →

Global Transmedia MOOCs

This is a lovely summary from the HASTAC website; In this video, virtual community pioneer Howard Rheingold interviews Jonathan Shaw about the groundbreaking experiments in online, collaborative learning in the arts. Here’s a brief blog post from Howard introducing the video (plus, important relevant links): “Nearly two years before Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun shook up educational institutions with their… Read more →

Hurricane sweeping away old landscapes

  This was the piece Jonathan was asked to write for the “Photography as Art” special supplement published for The Times newspaper last week. It was lovely working with the supplement’s editor Sue Steward and many thanks for helping to condense it down into something that is hopefully interesting and informative. “Over the last few years, a hurricane has swept through… Read more →