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Does a University need a Chief Experience Officer?

I spend a lot of time reading business publications and blogs. If you put in a day digesting Seth Godin, Tom Peters, ChangeThis and then throw in IDEO, Diego Rodriguez and for good measure Mark Hurst you not only have a very sound reading list on business, creativity and leadership but also a question on your [...]

Media Education for yesterday not tomorrow!

I am a very lucky academic in that I am today teaching in a program at Zayed University that has thrown out what we are doing and totally reinvented not only what bit how we will teach. The what we will teach was the easy part, the how is still to come. The big words [...]

What do students really want.

You may be asking why have my last couple of posts been very pointedly about education? The obvious answer is that I spend a portion of my day in the classroom, at the university level, and deal 1st hand with the education realities of the day. I am also part of a group of educators [...]

Bring on the mobile media!

I have been doing some experimentation with mobile media and breaking my own rules! The main rule I live by with mobile media is keep it short! I have been recording my classes at the university and formatting them for an iPhone! The lectures are about 60 minutes and they actually seem to have a [...]

du CEO Osman Sultan where are we going?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Osman Sultan, the ceo of du int he UAE, talk about his vision of how a content delivery provider can and will play a role in the future of Arab media. The real issues comes down to what is media today and what will media be [...]

apps are the future.

The 4th screen (your mobile/cellular phone) holds the key to your information world. And are we teaching app creation, management, imagination in our schools? I suspect many teachers/professors have only a passing knowledge about apps given that they are not using phones that easily take on board advanced applications. My advice to students, anyone really, [...]

The whatif of Gadgets and Education!

The latest installment of GADGET LAB from Wired Magazine has really got me thinking. The issue is how the iPhone might reboot ENGAGEMENT in education, and in this case we are talking about University education. The goal was simple! The initiative’s goal was to explore how the always-connected iPhone might revolutionize the classroom experience with [...]

Journalists need retraining, sort of!

Today more than ever journalists need to be retrained on how to connect their stories to their multiple audiences. The problem faced by journalists today is very simply that their occupation is transforming and they do not know how to transform along with it. When we academics talk about the changes taking place to journalism [...]

Thinking About The Purpose of the University Today.

It has been a while since I sat down and put mind to keyboard here at JamesEd, sorry about that, I am back. I was reading today in the TimesOnline that 6th form students in the UK are facing the very real prospect of not being able to enter a University to continue their education, [...]

Talking TED @ Zayed University

Tuesday, today @ exactly 12:00, I played the end of ONE STEP CLOSER by U2 and started the slide show of the TED images from Long Beech! The stage had a chair and 2 lamps, one red, and a giant screen… I was doing my own version of TED talking about TED. Imagine, I forgot [...]

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