The following is posted on behalf of Mark Ormesher, Unitu.  On Saturday 8th November our very first UnituHack took place in central London. We brought university developers, students and staff together for a one-day hackathon to create solutions for the problems they saw in their universities. The results were far beyond what we had expected. […]

The following is posted on behalf of Ignacio Willats & Leon Achilleos who took part in the FOTE14 pitchfest. Unituhack: The Hackers That Want Source Codes, Not Sort Codes! Try to imagine a hacker hacking. The notion might conjure up images of an anonymous cyber-criminal, sitting in a dark room, typing lines of green code with […]

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Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at Plymouth University, outlines what he sees as the key human issues that will impact upon the design of future learning environments.   In the concluding keynote of FOTE14, Steve Wheeler argued that we need to be vigilant when there are gaps: generational gaps, gaps in understanding, expectation...

Keith Martin, Director, Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, provides an update on recent government initiatives relating to academia and cyber security.   Keith Martin worries that too many people think that the data within universities is not considered to be important. There has been a lot of cyber security fuss in the press in […]

James Clay, Group Director of IT at Activate Learning, asks how we can fight the powers of evil, those who have succumbed to the darkness, and those who endeavour to block and stop enlightenment, innovation and creativity.   James Clay treated us to a Star Wars introduction leading to the Death Star support desk. Unfortunately, […]