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CETIS conference -- grand challenges

Attending the CETIS conference today -- we've all been asked to blog pre-conference on the following issues:

If you were able to plan a 10 year programme of trans-disciplinary research and technology (ICT) development, what challenge would you address and what would your programme look like? What challenges can you see where there are identifiable questions to be answered? What methods could be used to help to answer the questions? How should we deal with complexity? What disciplines should collaborators come from? 

My responses to some of this, as viewed from my corner of the forest, below the fold...

Curriculum design as stage management

Last week I was at the University of Oxford Learning Institute, giving a paper on professional learning.  The session was chaired by Chris Trevitt (my thanks to him), and the SIMPLE project featured largely in it.  Good questions and discussion afterwards – slides at Slideshare here.