Final report submitted to JISC in January 2012 for the EXPLORER project to enhance and embed DORA within DMU systems.

This article scopes some of the key political elements in the higher educational use of the read/write web, or Web2.0 as it is commonly known. It investigates ways in which these tools can be used to enhance deliberative ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to concentrate on establishments that are known as the "built heritage", often described as "historic houses". Many operate in a similar vein to small businesses and often have a more ...

Minutes from the EXPLORER board meeting April 2011. Includes update on the project

Teaching information literacy is about empowering users, not following a sterile curriculum. To be effective, we need to provide a mixture of teaching and learning activities to accommodate diversity.

The read/write web, or Web 2.0, offers ways for users to personalise their online existence, and to develop their own critical identities though their control of a range of tools. Exerting control enables those users to ...

A traditional deficit approach to supporting learning, that is reactive, remedial and specialist, is costly, and limited in its impact. (Cottrell, 2001; Wolfendale, 1996; Peelo and Wareham, 2002;Tinto, 1997). The result ...