Urban Learning Space Seminars
This podcast series features inspirational talks by some of the most innovative educational consultants and developers in the world. They have been recorded at the Urban Learning Space in The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland.
Urban Learning Space is a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of 21st century life.
Urban Learning Space was established with core funding from Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. We are working with people around Scotland to address real life challenges. Our network of experts are using transformational design practice to promote individuals’ capacities for change. Nurturing an innate capacity for learning by using collaborative design processes, we create new approaches. These range from the building of creativity tools to support innovation, transforming public spaces into learning landscapes, and harnessing emerging technologies to explore new learning contexts.
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2008
Vital Signs: Marks, Codes and the Future, part 1
Knowing what is the 'next big thing' is a factor in success and survival: no surprise then that the study of signs is known as 'semiotics' from the greek word for oracle. But how does one become good…
01:19:24 |
Fri 15 Aug 2008
Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 2)
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high stree…
00:39:58 |
Wed 23 Jul 2008
Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 1)
The music business is in meltdown - and professional musicians are having to re-assess everything about how they sustain their livelihoods. If people simply won't pay £15 for a CD from the high stree…
01:16:18 |
Wed 09 Jul 2008
Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 2)
There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organis…
00:49:49 |
Tue 13 May 2008
Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 1)
There is a revolution in the design of learning spaces all round the world and inevitably this is now impacting on the design of corporate space too. As corporations aspire to become learning organis…
01:10:53 |
Tue 13 May 2008
Understanding the Peer to Peer Revolution
Because of the increased distributed nature of production technology, not just for immaterial production but for physical production as well, it is increasingly possible to imagine modes of social li…
01:49:43 |
Tue 22 Apr 2008
The EUREKA! Process and Pathways to Creativity
Creativity is a highly valuable and desirable quality, which appears to defy our attempts at understanding it. Despite much scientific research effort, creativity remains infuriatingly elusive. It se…
01:25:48 |
Mon 07 Apr 2008
Assessment 2.0: Modernising Assessment for the 21st Century
This talk challenged orthodoxy in assessment. The speaker, Bobby Elliot, has overall responsibility for all vocational (ICT) assessment within the college and workplace sectors in Scotland.
Bobby ha…
01:06:17 |
Wed 19 Mar 2008
Everybody Get Loud: Consumer Generated Content Monitoring
In an age where a blog post or a video on YouTube is challenging mainstream media as a source for global attention, it becomes increasingly important for business and the community to be aware of wha…
01:32:26 |
Wed 05 Mar 2008
Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 3)
The third part of the Podcasting in Creative Business seminar recording is the presentation by each of the three groups to everybody participating of the plans they devised during the afternoon sessi…
00:41:05 |
Wed 06 Feb 2008
Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 2)
The second recording from the Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contains extracts from the three group discussions.
Group one was discussing how to create a podcast series as part …
00:26:33 |
Wed 06 Feb 2008
Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 1)
Part one of the recording from new media production company Inner Ear's Podcasting in Creative Business Development seminar contextualises the medium, showing how it fits within social networks, onli…
01:10:21 |
Wed 06 Feb 2008
Build Your Own World: User Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons
Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership implications of new technologies; in particular he researches intellectual property issues in User Generated Content and the so-called Web 2…
01:51:25 |
Tue 27 Nov 2007
Innovation: a Personal View (part 2)
Dr. Chris Yapp's Futures thinking seminar, part two, a group discussion.
01:15:50 |
Tue 20 Nov 2007
Innovation: a Personal View (part 1)
This event was a three-hour interactive workshop on futures thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. As a much abused term, the seminar helped attendees understand and measure how innovative they a…
01:06:30 |
Tue 20 Nov 2007
New Literacies for the 21st Century Citizen
The vast majority of those with whom we work, live and play are probably more digital immigrants than digital natives. Yet 2007 marks the first time that 16 year olds entering the work place will hav…
01:13:42 |
Tue 06 Nov 2007
Computer Games in the Classroom: Frivolous Folk Devils or Powerful Learning Tools?
Derek Robertson discussed a number of games based pilots that he has initiated and supported in Scottish schools over the past year. He also delivered an impassioned and informed series of arguments …
00:47:48 |
Thu 11 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 9: The Way Forward by Professor Nigel Osborne, OBE
In part nine Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE concludes the What Makes Me Me? conference.
00:12:28 |
Fri 05 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 8: Questions from the conference to Robert Winston and Michael O'Neill
Part eight is a group discussion question and answer session hosted by Robert Winston, Michael O'Neil and Keir Bloomer.
00:18:00 |
Fri 05 Oct 2007
What Makes Me Me? Part 7: The Learning Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston
Part seven is the second of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.
00:33:56 |
Fri 05 Oct 2007
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