Richard Millwood

Knowing my interest in delight in learning, colleague Derek Wenmoth pointed me to a post on Steve Denning’s blog, from which Derek quoted this: “…management in the 20th Century was about achieving a finite goal: delivering goods and services, to make money. Management in the 21st Century by contrast is about the infinite goal of [...]

I have been working part-time in the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) at the University of Bolton for the last two years, after seventeen years at Ultralab. IEC houses three major projects: •    the JISC Innovation Support Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Studies (CETIS); •    the Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry-Based Learning project creating innovative higher degree [...]

Almost five years to the day that Ultraversity was validated at Anglia Ruskin University, we have received conditional approval for a new scheme based on the same philosophies of learner-centred, work-focussed, community-supported, action-inquiry and innovative assessment. This IDIBL course framework validated at the University of Bolton is more ambitious in scope, more refined in character [...]

I have been speaking on the issues surrounding Social Software in learning here at the Heads of eLearning Forum meeting in Coventry. Here are my slides as a pdf

In my spare time , I am transcribing the interviews with Ultraversity graduates at the graduation ceremony in Chelmsford on November 24th 2006. Greta has done the mass of the transcribing, I am editing and very nearly finished. It is compelling stuff: “I just could never envisage myself here, with the degree because I always [...]