Best Urban Learning Space Podcasts (2024)

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Vital Signs: Marks, Codes and the Future, part 1 1:19:24

16y ago1:19:24

1:19:24

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 at reading signs and why does it matter so much?Signs dominate everyday life: they can be natural signs, for example a rumble in the sky gives advance…

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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 2) 39:58

16+ y ago39:58

39:58

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 street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…

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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 2) 39:58

16+ y ago39:58

39:58

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 street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…

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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 1) 1:16:18

16+ y ago1:16:18

1:16:18

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 street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…

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Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest For A New Business Model In The Age Of Networks (part 1) 1:16:18

16+ y ago1:16:18

1:16:18

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 street, what will they pay for? Recorded music is tending towards being ubiquitous and free(ish), but live music is tending towards high prices for a unique…

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Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 2) 49:49

16+ y ago49:49

49:49

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 organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to designs for schools to inform their transformation. A…

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Learning Spaces, Working Places (part 1) 1:10:53

16+ y ago1:10:53

1:10:53

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 organisations and move away from their training rooms and training culture they're increasing looking to designs for schools to inform their transformation. A…

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Understanding the Peer to Peer Revolution 1:49:43

16+ y ago1:49:43

1:49:43

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 life which combine re-localised production with global open design communities.How can we move away from a world that is based on a false notion that the…

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Understanding the Peer to Peer Revolution 1:49:43

16+ y ago1:49:43

1:49:43

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 life which combine re-localised production with global open design communities.How can we move away from a world that is based on a false notion that the…

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The EUREKA! Process and Pathways to Creativity 1:25:48

16+ y ago1:25:48

1:25:48

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 seems that the very act of scientifically researching creativity makes it evaporate like Daphne. Could it be that we are looking in the wrong place?If ho…

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The EUREKA! Process and Pathways to Creativity 1:25:48

16+ y ago1:25:48

1:25:48

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 seems that the very act of scientifically researching creativity makes it evaporate like Daphne. Could it be that we are looking in the wrong place?If ho…

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Assessment 2.0: Modernising Assessment for the 21st Century 1:06:17

16+ y ago1:06:17

1:06:17

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 has a professional and personal interest in assessment (particularly e-assessment) and digital technologies (Web 2.0)...hence the blending of the two into …

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Assessment 2.0: Modernising Assessment for the 21st Century 1:06:16

16+ y ago1:06:16

1:06:16

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 has a professional and personal interest in assessment (particularly e-assessment) and digital technologies (Web 2.0)...hence the blending of the two into …

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Everybody Get Loud: Consumer Generated Content Monitoring 1:32:26

16+ y ago1:32:26

1:32:26

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 what is happening online in social networking spaces. But when MySpace has 200 million users, and Facebook 55 million, YouTube has around 57 million video…

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Everybody Get Loud: Consumer Generated Content Monitoring 1:32:26

16+ y ago1:32:26

1:32:26

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 what is happening online in social networking spaces. But when MySpace has 200 million users, and Facebook 55 million, YouTube has around 57 million video…

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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 3) 41:05

17y ago41:05

41:05

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 session. We listen to each of the presentations and discuss how we think each one would work in the real world. Everybody is encouraged to join in.…

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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 3) 41:05

17y ago41:05

41:05

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 session. We listen to each of the presentations and discuss how we think each one would work in the real world. Everybody is encouraged to join in.…

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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 2) 26:33

17y ago26:33

26:33

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 of a marketing campaign for Innocent Drinks. Group two were planning to use podcasting in internal communications for East Lothian Council. The third gro…

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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 2) 26:33

17y ago26:33

26:33

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 of a marketing campaign for Innocent Drinks. Group two were planning to use podcasting in internal communications for East Lothian Council. The third gro…

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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 1) 1:10:21

17y ago1:10:21

1:10:21

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, online communities and blogging. Examples are drawn from the three areas Inner Ear cover in the course of this seminar: external marketing, internal commun…

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Podcasting in Creative Business Development (part 1) 1:10:21

17y ago1:10:21

1:10:21

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, online communities and blogging. Examples are drawn from the three areas Inner Ear cover in the course of this seminar: external marketing, internal commun…

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Build Your Own World: User Generated Content, Second Life and Creative Commons 1:51:25

17y ago1:51:25

1:51:25

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 2.0 phenomenon. He delivered a presentation in which he looked at the creation of urban spaces within so-called virtual worlds, such as the popular envi…

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Innovation: a Personal View (part 2) 1:15:50

17y ago1:15:50

1:15:50

Dr. Chris Yapp's Futures thinking seminar, part two, a group discussion.By Dr. Chris Yapp

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Innovation: a Personal View (part 1) 1:06:30

17y ago1:06:30

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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 are, whether they would recognise innovation and what part technology plays in innovation.By Dr. Chris Yapp

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New Literacies for the 21st Century Citizen 1:13:42

17y ago1:13:42

1:13:42

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 have been brought up their entire life with the world-wide-web. What opportunities lie in store for business, government and those who choose to create th…

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Computer Games in the Classroom: Frivolous Folk Devils or Powerful Learning Tools? 47:48

17y ago47:48

47:48

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 as to why games based learning has a vital role to play in creating contexts for learning that resonate with and motivate the digital native that we no…

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What Makes Me Me? Part 9: The Way Forward by Professor Nigel Osborne, OBE 12:28

17y ago12:28

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In part nine Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE concludes the What Makes Me Me? conference.By Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE

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What Makes Me Me? Part 8: Questions from the conference to Robert Winston and Michael O'Neill 18:00

17y ago18:00

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Part eight is a group discussion question and answer session hosted by Robert Winston, Michael O'Neil and Keir Bloomer.By Robert Winston, Michael O'Neil and Keir Bloomer

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What Makes Me Me? Part 7: The Learning Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston 33:56

17y ago33:56

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Part seven is the second of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.By Professor Lord Robert Winston

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What Makes Me Me? Part 6: Discussion with Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer 12:52

17y ago12:52

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Part six is a discussion between Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer.By Robert Winston and Keir Bloomer

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What Makes Me Me? Part 5: The Amazing Mind by Professor Lord Robert Winston 54:45

17y ago54:45

54:45

Part five is the first of two lectures by Sir Robert Winston.Lord Winston is Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College and Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. His research, which has produced over 300 publications, is known worldwide.Robert Winston is committed to scientific education and his many TV series on different asp…

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What Makes Me Me? Part 2: Ministerial Address by Fiona Hyslop 10:08

17y ago10:08

10:08

Part two of the What Makes Me Me? event. An address by Scottish minister for Education, Fiona Hyslop.By Fiona Hyslop

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What Makes Me Me? Part 3: Education at the "Heart" of the Economy with Stuart Patrick 8:32

17y ago8:32

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Part three is a presentation by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow's Operations Director Stuart Patrick.By Stuart Patrick

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What Makes Me Me? Part 4: Hungry for Success: Attitudes Values and Beliefs by Michael O'Neill OBE 37:38

17y ago37:38

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Part four is presented by Michael O’Neill.A graduate of Glasgow University (Economics/History) he began as an Economist/Town Planner before switching to teaching. He spent 15 years at the chalkface as a teacher, principal teacher and assistant head, followed by posts of adviser in social subjects, senior adviser and education officer in 2 divisions…

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What Makes Me Me? Part 1: Introduction from Keir Bloomer 4:12

17y ago4:12

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This National Conference was hosted by the Tapestry Partnership and supported by Urban Learning Space. The event is framed in the context of education in Scotland in its widest sense. It had as its focus the importance of the brain in learning for young people and adults. Lord Winston requires no introduction; he is a world renowned scientist who i…

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Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education part 2 1:07:00

17y ago1:07:00

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This is the second part of the recording from the Creative Collaboration seminar by Andy Polaine. In this part he hosts a question and answer session with the audience.By Andy Polaine, Omnium Project

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Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education part 1 50:01

17y ago50:01

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The past few years have been a buzz with terms such as the Creative Economy, social networks and Web 2.0. Yet many industries and institutions are struggling to adapt to this rapidly changing landscape, often mistakenly focus on the technological rather than the cultural shifts that make this change so fundamental. Collaboration and creativity have…

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Digital Storytelling 42:01

17y ago42:01

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We all have many stories to tell. Stories represent who we are, portray our life experiences and when presented to others, help connect us to others through common shared experience. By starting to tell these stories and hearing those of others, we can start to shift our perspective on who we are, explore the ways in which we are attached to the co…

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Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys? Group discussion part 2 24:24

17y ago24:24

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In part two of the recording from Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys?, Jemima hosts a question and answer session with the audience.By Jemima Gibbons

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Digital Media - Jobs for the Boys? Group discussion part 1 54:00

17+ y ago54:00

54:00

Since 2005, Jemima has run Women in Film and Television’s Technical Change mentoring scheme, backed by ESF EQUAL and UIP, which provides mentors for women in technical areas.This seminar, based around the findings/conclusions from Technical Change, proposed what might be holding women back in technical areas and asked how we can encourage more wome…

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Designing the Learning Experience, part 2 30:09

17+ y ago30:09

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Sean referenced schools located in the middle of shopping centres, robotics, interactive fountains, new ways of learning and different approaches to risk management. He argued that other countries have made a crucial distinction between places of learning and ways of learning. He believed that there is a fantastic opportunity to develop, in the UK,…

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Designing the Learning Experience, part 1 55:54

17+ y ago55:54

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The seminar opened our minds to the disjointedness of the physical space where children currently learn versus the content of what they are actually learning. Sean looked at how other countries are approaching the renewal (and, in some case, replacement) of their educational models in preparation for the challenges posed by globalization and the em…

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Learning To Work, Working To Learn – Design in Educational Transformation 1:29:54

17+ y ago1:29:54

1:29:54

The Workplace Forum lecture, by Andrew Harrison, explored the impact of educational transformation on the university and school estate, the workplace and the community. A response was given by Gordon Davies.Education at every level in the UK is undergoing radical transformation. Universities are responding to changing demographics and economic pres…

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Glasgow 2020 - the Dreaming City Glasgow 2020 - the Dreaming City Glasgow 2020 – The Dreaming City 53:05

17+ y ago53:05

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Glasgow 2020 has been a two year project of events facilitated by the UK think tank Demos. It has looked at how people in the city of Glasgow look at the future, using a variety of creative and imaginative processes in a mass imagination exercise. Just before Glasgow 2020 unveils its findings and resulting publication, join Gerry Hassan (who create…

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Creative Cities: the role of creative industries in regeneration 53:25

17+ y ago53:25

53:25

Professor O'Connor presented a case for the role of creative industries in the future of towns and cities, operating in a complex ecosystem that involves not only artists and business people, but people from every area of urban life. Taking Manchester as a prime example, he looked at the relationship between the cultural economy and the wider image…

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Collaborating Online, part 2 22:58

17+ y ago22:58

22:58

Online tools such as Blogs, Wikis, email, Instant chat and First Class communities can all be used to enhance the learning experience. This seminar included examples from some of Ultralab’s recent projects such as: (1) Ultraversity: a content-free on-line degree for full time workers. (2) Heads Together: how groups of professionals (in this case He…

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Collaborating Online, part 1 57:02

17+ y ago57:02

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This presentation looked at general trends in the use of technologies in learning environments and showed how collaboration in learning is key. It focused on how on-line learning is changing to become more participative than receptive - collaborative rather than content-based - and how the Internet can maximize opportunities for education to groups…

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Designing Mobile and Social Learning Experiences, part 2 50:18

17+ y ago50:18

50:18

Joanne Jacobs demonstrated exemplary projects in mobile and social learning undertaken by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) and provided useful guidelines on how we can potentially implement these concepts within a Scottish context.By Joanne Jacobs, ACID

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Designing Mobile and Social Learning Experiences, part 1 41:32

17+ y ago41:32

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This workshop focused on the importance of interaction design in the creation of effective mobile and social learning experiences. Such experiences help to create a "social identity". Additionally, central to a successful learning experience using emerging technologies is the need to involve the end user at every stage.…

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Designing Technology for Social Change, part 3 36:22

17+ y ago36:22

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Currently Assistant Professor in the University of California’s Department of Visual Arts, Natalie was previously Lecturer Convertible in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, Consultant to the Advanced Computer Graphics Center, NYU, and Distinguished Critic in the Department of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. One of A…

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