I thought it was dead. No, it’s spluttered back to life, and let’s hope it keeps breathing, for Open Praxis should be part of our open and distance learning landscape. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2013
“The Internet is the under-recognized revolution of our time”: you’ve got to be kidding!
Under-recognized? Surely not! Permit me to repeat that and state it fully in context:
“An argument can be made, and so I will make it here, that the invention of the Internet is the under-recognized revolution of our time [italics added]. Continue reading
Guest post*: Study tools to make the most of distance learning courses
If you’re working towards an online degree or taking some other kind of distance learning course, that doesn’t mean that you don’t have to put in the same kind of work and studying that you would for a regular class if you hope to do as well. Continue reading
On reviewing: a diversion to another old book
In an earlier post on reviewing, I noted the claimed contribution to the death of Keats by the savage review of his poetry by one John Wilson Croker. It appeared in the Quarterly Review, of which I now own a copy of Volume LXIV (1839), a most welcome and expected (as I chose it in an antiques shop in Tetsworth) Christmas present. Continue reading