INSIDE/OUT is the blog of MoMA and P.S.1

Museum Motion and Emotion in the City article is interesting in that it challenges our assumptions of museum as place and suggests musem as presence as a preferable aim.

I think this is only the first page of the article but if you want to see the whole thing I have a copy I can show you.

TED Talks In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

A practical guide to evaluation methods for lecturers, for browsing online. A publication from LTDI

this you tube video is a very simplifed explanation of John Biggs' idea of contructive alignment in teaching and learning. One of the 'novel' aspects of this theory is that it is learner focussed.

Presentation by Helene Illeris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture The Danish University of Education, at The Museum Council of Iceland's symposium on the educational role of museums, October 21, 2005, at the National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland. NB It will be better to start looking at some of the other material first.

interesting ideas become more interesting in the last couple of pages - I think. Might be best to have a listen to Anna Cutler podcast 1st.

That was odd - it did that for me too just then. But whn I hit the 'download OK' button it downloaded fine.

This recording is part of: Education Practice at Tate 1970-present Programme A Monday 23 February - Friday 27 February 2009 In considering how museums have significantly reconfigured their relationships with audiences over the last decade and given how Learning as a department carries a notable responsibility in developing audiences, this series of interviews with present and past members of Tate staff aims to create an understanding and account of how Education practice within Tate has historically evolved from information and explanation to interpretation, engagement to participation, informal knowledge to professional research. Questions to be considered in this programme in relation to Education practice are: * Since its inception what are the historical legacies of the original Education Department within the operation of Tate and more recently Tate Britain? * Where has Education been historically positioned and now? * What kind of agency does Education hold within the production and reproduction of knowledge within Tate? * What is its relationship to a research practice? * How does it configure its publics?

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the interview is way too long but there are some good bits. She doesn't really offer any instruction about quality and accessibility not being mutually exclusive but just champions the cause. In fact there's a lot of cause championing and she says she has a fabulous team who help her out and do everything. She seems to be embedding scholarship in their discipline which seems like a good thing to me.