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Dr Patrick McAndrew

Dr Patrick McAndrew

Professor of Open Education

The Open University Institute of Educational Technology IET Academic Team


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Profile

Current Work

As Professor of Open Education I take a leading role in the research and development of approaches to open and free learning.The release of open content by The Open University through the launch of OpenLearn underpins the contribution of the Univerity to Open Educational Resources and the practices around them. I directed the research and evaluation within OpenLearn and I am Programme Lead for the Learning in an Open World research area, Director of the Open Learning network (OLnet) and Bridge to Success project.

Active areas

  • Researching and evaluating learner and provider issues in the the use of open content and free educational resources.
  • Projects based in the IET UserLab addressing issues in the development of learning models around learning objects and learning design.
  • Evaluation focused on the gathering of formative data from students and the evolution os course materials.
  • The use of knowledge management as a way to support the sharing of information and development of a Knowledge Network.
  • The reuse of materials and software for learning.
  • The design of web-based courses

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Biography/CV

I joined the Open University in September 1999. Before that I worked at Heriot-Watt University where I was Manager of the Institute for Computer Based Learning within the Learning Technology Centre. I joined Heriot-Watt in 1986 first as a Research Associate and then Lecturer in the Computer Science department. I transferred to ICBL when it was formed in 1991 first as System Manager and then Manager from 1995. I have also worked for British Gas On Line Inspection Centre, ERA Technology, and Marconi Avionics. I have a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University (Brasenose College) and a PhD in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt. Formerly Head of Centre for Information Technology in Education (2002-2005) and Associate Director (Learning and Teaching) (2009-2011), I was promoted to a Chair in Open Education in 2012.

EU related information

Dr Patrick McAndrew is a Professor of Open Education in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at The Open University. He joined The Open University in 1999 from being Manager of the Institute for Computer Based Learning at Heriot-Watt University. He has a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University and a PhD in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. At Heriot-Watt he was involved in a large number of research and development projects including HIPERNET (RACE), LEVERAGE (ACTS) and ASTEP (MMTF action), in ASTEP he led the ICBL team and was work package leader for the requirements and development. As part of his role with the IET UserLab he was workpackage leader within GUARDIANS (IST) and partner leader for the final stages of MOBILearn (FP6). Recent projects have focused on inclusion and accessibility work in EU4ALL (FP6) and working on Open Educational Practices and Resouces within the EU Lifelong Learning Programme (OPAL, OpenSE and OpenEd2.0). His main research interests are in ways to structure material for reuse and approaches to enabling learning and sharing knowledge using networks through the enabling action of openness.

Teaching Interests

Since 1999 I have involved in the MA in Online and Distance Education as part of the team working on the course Applications of Information Technology in Open and Distance Education (H802). This course has an online focus supported by books, video, audio and written resources. In 2001 the course team received an Award for Teaching Excellence for this course from the Open University. Experience from this course fed into work on the current course Innovations in elearning (H807).

Short courses include Managing On-Line Educational Resources and Media and Supporting Students using Course Websites.

At Heriot-Watt University teaching experience includes:

  • Lecturer in Computer Science - 1989-1991.
  • Module in Computers in Teaching and Learning - within MSc in HCI
  • Learning about Learning Online - EU funded PHARE project for 400 educators in Central and Eastern Europe.

Research Interests

Active areas

  • Researching and evaluating learner and provider issues in the the use of open content and free educational resources.
  • Projects based in the IET UserLab addressing issues in the development of learning models around learning objects and learning design.
  • Evaluation focused on the gathering of formative data from students and the evolution os course materials.
  • The use of knowledge management as a way to support the sharing of information and development of a Knowledge Network.
  • The reuse of materials and software for learning.
  • The design of web-based courses

Current Research Projects

OpenLearn

Leading the Research and Evaluation strand for this major two year project. See the main OpenLearn site for more details: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn

Sample previous projects

Evaluation of M301

An online evaluation of M301 (a third level computing course) has been carried out as part of PLUM. A general questionnaire was answered by the students and then for each of the 6 blocks in the course a separate online questionnaire is generated and made available at the end of the block. The process is semi-automated with data stored in databases as students complete each questionnaire and then analysis carried out using Excel templates. A quick report is made to the course team as soon as data is available. Despite relatively low percentage responses this approach to evaluation has enabled very rapid reporting and has helped the course team understand the student experience. It is intended to look for how the approach could be streamlined and applied more widely.

Others involved: Josie Taylor, Simon Rae, Linda Carswell

Knowledge Network/UNLOCK

The UNLOCK project has provided £198,000 of infrastructure to support the creation of a Knowledge Network for IET. The intention is to enable the dissemination of information from IET to the OU in the form of documents, guide, discussion and courses. Some of the technology is now on site and once initial platform decisions are finalised work will start to build a pilot system.

Others involved: Josie Taylor, James Aczel, Doug Clow, Mary Thorpe, Gill Kirkup.

Design of web sites for courses

A study looked at the process of creating web sites for courses. This has so far concentrated on two examples from within the OU of courses highly dependent on the web (T171 and H802). It is intended to report on those and then extend the study to a wider range of courses and work towards advice and guidance. A one day workshop building from the knowledge gained has already been presented for the School of Education.

Others involved: Agnes Kukulska-Hulme.

CURVE project

I was the IET academic consultant on this project which involves two project officers in IET and others working within Publishing Systems (now part of LTS). The project has some practical aims to develop further systems that help people identify and reuse material archived within the OU. It also has more general aims to identify best practice and characterise how the work of building new courses can draw on existing courses. A part of this work has been to consider the metadata needs for describing OU materials and as part of the Metadata Working Group a list of recommended elements have been produced. Those elements draw on the set used within the standard that is being promoted by IMS (Instructional Management System) project.

Others involved: Mary Thorpe, (Cate Thomas, Garry Hammond), Keir Thorpe, Chris Kubiak.

SoURCE project

The SoURCE project is a TLTP project directed from the School of Education. Its overall aims are to promote reuse of educational software. The involvement of IET has so far concentrated on examining the reuse of the Elicitation Engine (initially designed within IET) and overseeing the evaluation. While work on the Elicitation Engine is nearly complete the project also examines ways to store and disseminate information about case studies and software. These approaches have relevance to other areas of IET work.

Publications

Authored Book
Twining, P.; Evans, D.; Cook, D.; Ralston, J.; Selwood, I.; Jones, A.; Underwood, J.; Dillon, G.; Scanlon, E.; Heppell, S.; Kukulska-Hulme, A.; McAndrew, P. and Sheehy, K. (2005). Tablet PCs in schools: Case study report: A report for Becta by the Open University. Coventry, UK: Becta.
Book Chapter
Mendonca, Murilo Matos; McAndrew, Patrick and Santos, Andreia (2011). Freeing up access to learning: the role for Open Educational Resources. In: Baldazzi, Anna; Ricci, Laura and Baros, Valentina Valle eds. E-Learning quality assurance: a multi-perspective approach. GUIDE Association. Rome, Italy: Gangemi Editore spa, pp. 121–138.
Conole, Grainne; McAndrew, Patrick and Dimitriadis, Yannis (2011). The role of CSCL pedagogical patterns as mediating artefacts for repurposing Open Educational Resources. In: Pozzi, Francesca and Persico, Donatella eds. Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Hershey, USA: IGI Global.
Lane, Andrew; Connolly, Teresa; Ferreira, Giselle; McAndrew, Patrick and Wilson, Tina (2010). Reusing, reworking and remixing open educational resources. In: Marshall, Stewart and Kinuthia, Wanjira eds. Cases 'n' Places: Global Cases in Educational and Performance Technology. Educational Design and Technology in the Knowledge Society. Charlotte, NC: IAP - Information Age Publishing.
McAndrew, Patrick (2009). What is needed for global e-learning in higher education? In: Zajda, Joseph and Gibbs, Donna eds. Comparative information Technology: Languages, Societies and the Internet. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 4. Springer, pp. 49–64.
Clough, Gill; Jones, Ann; McAndrew, Patrick and Scanlon, Eileen (2009). Informal learning evidence in online communities of mobile device enthusiasts. In: Ally, Mohamed ed. Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training. Issues in Distance Education. Athabasca University Press, pp. 99–112.
McAndrew, Patrick; Godwin, Stephen and Santos, Andreia (2009). Research 2.0: How do we know about the users that do not tell us anything? In: Vavoula, Giasemi; Pachler, Norbert and Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes eds. Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, Tools and Research Designs. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, pp. 277–288.
Wilson, Tina and McAndrew, Patrick (2007). From Africa through Germany to the UK and back again: The potential of Open Educational resources. In: McAndrew, Patrick and Watts, Jo eds. Researching open content in education. Milton Keynes: OpenLearn, Open University, pp. 67–70.
Brasher, Andrew and McAndrew, Patrick (2004). Human-Generated Learning Object Metadata. In: Meersman, R; Zahir, Tari and Corsaro, A eds. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3292. Berlin: Springer, pp. 723–730.
McAndrew, Patrick and Laurillard, Diana (2003). Reusable educational software: a basis for generic e-learning tasks’. In: Littlejohn, Alison ed. Reusing online resources: a sustainable approach to eLearning. London, UK: Kogan Page.
Conference Item
De Liddo, Anna; Buckingham Shum, Simon; McAndrew, Patrick and Farrow, Robert (2012). The open education evidence hub: a collective intelligence tool for evidence based policy. In: Cambridge 2012: Joint OER12 and OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2012 Conference, 16 - 18 April 2012, Cambridge, UK (forthcoming).
Wilson, Tina; McAndrew, Patrick and Meiszner, Andreas (2011). Sharing software engineering resources and open source software across entities. In: 12th Annual Conference of Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Science, 23rd -25th August 2011, Belfast UK.
Aczel, James; Cross, Simon; Meiszner, Andreas; Hardy, Pascale; McAndrew, Patrick and Clow, Doug (2011). Some issues affecting the sustainability of open learning courses. In: EDEN 2011 Annual Conference: Learning and Sustainability: The New Ecosystem of Innovation and Knowledge, 19-22 June 2011, Dublin, Ireland.
McAndrew, Patrick; Makriyanni, Elpida; Casserly, Cathy and Vollmer, Timothy (2011). Planning the OER landscape. In: OCWC Global 2011: Celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare, 04–06 May 2011, Cambridge, MA, USA.
McAndrew, Patrick and Cropper, Karen (2010). Open Learning Network: the evidence of OER impact. In: Open Ed 2010: The Seventh Annual Open Education Conference, 2-4 November 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
Kursun, Engin; Wilson, Tina; McAndrew, Patrick and Cagiltay, Kursat (2010). Evaluating three different Open Educational Resource models provided to enable Learning in Our Connected World. In: Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2010 AECT convention, 26-30 October 2010., Anaheim, California, USA .
Santos, Andreia; McAndrew, Patrick and Mendonça, Murilo (2010). Cultural imperialism or multicultural mix? Promoting OER reuse through collaboration. In: Open Educational Resources 2010 (OER10), 22-24 Mar 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Santos, Andreia and McAndrew, Patrick (2010). Do I have the right to reuse? The institutional acculturation process of open practices into producing, sharing and repurposing OER. In: E-learning Africa 2010, 25-28 May 2010, Lusaka, Zambia.
Kursun, Engin; Wilson, Tina; McAndrew, Patrick and Cagiltay, Kursat (2010). Evaluating the current status of OpenCourseWare in Turkish Tertiary Education: Benefits, barriers and incentives. In: Open Educational Resources 2010 (OER10), 22-24 March 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Wilson, Tina; Schuwer, Robert and McAndrew, Patrick (2010). Collating global evidence of the design, use, reuse and redesign of open educational content. In: Open Educational Resources 2010 (OER10), 22-24 March 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Kozinska, K.; Kursun, E.; Wilson, T.; McAndrew, P.; Scanlon, E. and Jones, A. (2010). Are open educational resources the future of e-learning? In: 3rd International Future-Learning Conference: Innovations in Learning for the Future, 10-14 May 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
Alevizou, Panagiota; Wilson, Tina and McAndrew, Patrick (2010). Conceptualising collaborative participation and engagement for learning and creativity in OER communities. In: OER10 Conference, 22-24 March 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Dimitriadis, Yannis; McAndrew, Patrick; Conole, Grainne and Makriyannis, Elpida (2009). New design approaches to repurposing open educational resources for collaborative learning using mediating artefacts. In: ascilite 2009: Same places, different spaces, 6-9 Dec 2009, Auckland, New Zealand.
Wilson, Tina; McAndrew, Patrick; Miles, Richard and Conole, Grainne (2009). Contributing evidence of choice and change when using Open Educational Resources. In: ALT-C 2009: "In dreams begins responsibility" - Choice, evidence, and change, 8-10 September 2009, Manchester, UK.
McAndrew, P.; Wilson, T.; Darley, S.; Malone, S. and O'Hare, D. (2009). Improving methods and procedures for reuse and exchange of open educational resources. In: CAL ’09: Learning in Digital Worlds, 23-25 March 2009, Brighton, UK.
Wilson, Tina and McAndrew, Patrick (2009). Evaluating how five Higher Education Institutions worldwide plan to use and adapt Open Educational Resources. In: International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2009), 9-11 March 2009, Valencia, Spain.
Wilson, Tina and McAndrew, Patrick (2009). Successfully exchanging methods and processes between institutions to create Open Educational Resources. In: International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2009), 9-11 March 2009, Valencia, Spain.
Lane, Andrew; McAndrew, Patrick and Santos, Andreia (2009). The networking effects of OER. In: 23rd ICDE World Conference 2009, 7-10 June 2009, The Netherlands.
Wilson, Tina; McAndrew, Patrick and Schuwer, Robert (2009). Gathering evidence of the design, use, reuse and redesign of open educational content. In: ALT-C 2009: In dreams begins responsibility - Choice, evidence, and change, 8-10 September 2009, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Conole, Grainne; Wilson, Tina; McAndrew, Patrick; Culver, Juliette; Brasher, Andrew and Cross, Simon (2009). New methods and approaches to the design and evaluation of open educational resources. In: EDEN Annual Conference 2009, 10-13 June 2009, Gdansk, Poland.
Mwanza-Simwami, Daisy; McAndrew, Patrick and Madiba, Matete (2008). Fostering Open Educational Practices in cross-cultural contexts. In: IST-Africa 2008 Conference Proceedings, 7 - 9 May 2008, Windhoek, Namibia.
McAndrew, Patrick; Wilson, Tina; Malone, Sarah and O’Hare, Dave (2008). Repurposing resources as open content: studying the experiences of new providers. In: ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide, 9-11 September 2008, University of Leeds, UK.
McAndrew, Patrick; Wilson, Tina; O'Hare, Dave and Malone, Sarah (2008). Turning educational content into open content: a workshop. In: ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide, 9-11 September 2008, University of Leeds, UK.
McAndrew, Patrick and Wilson, Tina (2008). Pocketing the difference: Joint development of open educational resources. In: ICALT 2008: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning, Technologies. Learning technologies in the Information society, 1-5 July 2008, Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
Godwin, Stephen and McAndrew, Patrick (2008). Exploring user types and what users seek in an open content based educational resource. In: ED-MEDIA 2008 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 30 Jun - 04 Jul 2008, Vienna, Austria.
Wilson, Tina and McAndrew, Patrick (2007). Adapting, adopting and analysing the potential of open educational resources. In: CAL ’07 Development, disruption and debate conference, 26-28 March 2007, Dublin, Ireland.
McAndrew, Patrick; Santos, Andreia and Godwin, Stephen (2007). Opening up for OpenLearn: issues in providing open educational resources. In: CAL07: Development, Disruption and Debate - D3, 26-28 March, Dublin, Ireland.
Taylor, Josie; Minocha, Shailey; McAndrew, Patrick; Brasher, Andrew and Joinson, Adam (2006). Smart labs and social practice: social tools for pervasive laboratory workspaces: a position paper. In: Designing for e-Science: Interrogating New Scientific Practice for Usability, in the Lab and Beyond, 26-27 January 2006, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK.
Twining, P.; Cook, D.; Dillon, P.; Evans, G.; Heppell, A.; Jones, A.; Kukulska-Hulme, A.; McAndrew, P.; Ralston, J.; Scanlon, E.; Selwood, A.; Sheehy, K. and Underwood, J. (2005). Tablet PCs in schools. In: CALRG-TRLG Seminar, 15 June 2005, Milton Keynes, UK.
McAndrew, Patrick; Brasher, Andrew and Hardy, Pascale (2004). Determining Research Questions in e-learning. In: Networked Learning Conference 2004, April 5-7 2004, Lancaster University, UK.
Journal Article
McAndrew, Patrick (2011). Inspiring creativity in organisations, teachers and learners through Open Educational Resources. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning (EURODL)
McAndrew, Patrick (2011). Fostering open educational practices. eLearning Papers(23),
Wilson, Tina and McAndrew, Patrick (2011). Using new tools to support creative community engagement with open educational resources. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 7(4), pp. 442–462.
Lane, Andy and McAndrew, Patrick (2010). Are open educational resources systematic or systemic change agents for teaching practice? British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(6), pp. 952–962.
McAndrew, Patrick; Scanlon, Eileen and Clow, Doug (2010). An Open Future for Higher Education. Educause Quarterly, 33(1),
McAndrew, Patrick; Taylor, Josie and Clow, Doug (2010). Facing the challenge in evaluating technology use in mobile environments. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(3), pp. 233–249.
McAndrew, Patrick (2010). Defining openness: updating the concept of "open" for a connected world. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2010(10), pp. 1–13.
Brasher, Andrew and McAndrew, Patrick (2009). Automatic generation of audio content for open learning resources. Journal of Interactive Media in Education(5),
San Diego, Jonathan P. and McAndrew, Patrick (2009). The feasibility of capturing learner interactions based on logs informed by eye-tracking and remote observation studies. Journal of Interactive Media in Education(4),
Godwin, Stephen; McAndrew, Patrick and Santos, Andreia (2008). Behind the Scenes with OpenLearn: the Challenges of Researching the Provision of Open Educational Resources. Electronic Journal of E-Learning, 6(2), pp. 139–148.
Santos, Andreia; McAndrew, Patrick and Godwin, Steve (2008). Open educational resources - new directions for technology-enhanced distance learning in the third millennium. Formamente, 1-2, pp. 111–124.
Santos, Andreia; McAndrew, Patrick and Godwin, Stephen (2008). Open educational resources: new directions for technology-enhanced distance learning in the third millenium. Formamente(1-2), pp. 111–126.
Clough, G.; Jones, A. C; McAndrew, P. and Scanlon, E. (2007). Informal learning with PDAs and smartphones. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 24(5), pp. 359–371.
McAndrew, Patrick; Weller, Martin and Barret-Baxendale, Mark (2006). Learning Design and Service Oriented Architectures:a mutual dependency? Journal of Learning Design, 1(3), pp. 51–60.
McAndrew, Patrick; Goodyear, Peter and Dalziel, James (2006). Patterns, designs and activities: unifying descriptions of learning structures. International Journal of Learning Technology, 2(2-3), pp. 216–242.
Weller, Martin; Little, Alex; McAndrew, Patrick and Woods, Will (2006). Learning Design, generic service descriptions and universal acid. Educational Technology and Society, 9(1), pp. 138–145.
Twining, Peter; Evans, Diane; Cook, Deirdre; Ralston, John; Selwood, Ian; Jones, Ann; Underwood, Jean; Scanlon, Eileen; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Dillon, Gayle; McAndrew, Patrick and Sheehy, Kieron (2005). Should there be a future for Tablet PCs in schools? Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Brasher, Andrew and McAndrew, Patrick (2005). A model for the creation of human-generated metadata within communities. Learning, Media and Technology, 30(2), pp. 219–240.
McAndrew, Patrick; Clow, Doug; Taylor, Josie and Aczel, James (2004). The evolutionary design of a Knowledge Network to support knowledge management and sharing for lifelong learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 35(6), pp. 739–746.
Brasher, Andrew and McAndrew, Patrick (2003). Metadata vocabularies for describing learning objects: implementation and exploitation issues. Learning Technology, 5(1),
McAndrew, Patrick; Mackinnon, Lachlan and Rist, Roger (2002). A framework for work-based networked learning. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 13(1), pp. 149–166.
Other
McAndrew, Patrick and Cropper, Karen (2011). Open Educational Resources and Intellectual Property Rights. UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, Moscow, Russia.
McAndrew, P.; Santos, A.; Lane, A.; Godwin, S.; Okada, A.; Wilson, T.; Connolly, T.; Ferreira, G.; Buckingham Shum, S.; Bretts, J. and Webb, R. (2009). OpenLearn Research Report 2006-2008. The Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

Blog posts


16Mar

Starting out with MITx 6.002x

I have finally become a student again! What is more I am now enrolled with MIT(x) and it did not take a huge fee or any tough entry requirements. I am one of the 90,000 people who clicked the enroll button and signed in. For me there are several motivations: I work on Open Educational [...]

20Jan

iBook Author – is it OER incompatible?

Important update (20 February 2012): Apple acted to change the End User License Agreement on 3 February 2012 with release 1.0.1 of iBook Author. This modified the restriction on commercial use to say “and includes files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author” so it only applies to the iBook version of the text. As [...]

03Oct

How to (do) AVOID planning

I have long been a fan of the GTD approach and have recently been rereading David Allen’s book on Getting Things Done. Indeed I bought 10 copies and passed them out to colleagues working on the OLnet project as I believe his ideas and methods can only help people. BUT in reading his book I [...]

03Oct

No thank you for iPad

Recently at work we bought a couple of iPads. These are in the hands of Martin Weller and Karen Cropper both of whom are now keen users. Last week Karen let me have her iPad to use for a week and I expected it to hook me as well. There certainly are some nice things [...]

10Feb

Higher Education Leadership Summit 2010

I am attending the Higher Education Leadership Summit in London tomorrow (11 February 2010) which should be an interesting experience in many ways. Not least because I have been asked to provide some “live blogging” along with 3 other people working across the different strands of the conference. Cloudworks is being used to provide a [...]

10Feb

European activity – opense and oer in sweden

I attended a couple of different events in the last few days. I was at a meeting of the OpenSE project in Oxford. Blogged on olnet.org at http://olnet.org/node/252 And I attended an OER in Sweden conference. Blogged on olnet.org at http://olnet.org/node/253 One further comment – I stayed overnight when I went to Oxford (40 miles [...]

12Oct

Poor neglected blog

Nearly coming up on an anniversary of my last post to this blog has made me reflect on why I seem to have drifted away from the process of getting ideas out through my own blog. Certainly part of it is sheer lack of time (and possibly ideas!) but it also reflects the choice of [...]

19Nov

Future of homework with Xtranormal

My colleague Martin Weller put a little movie that he made over lunch with Xtranormal on his blog. Martin always picks up on the latest tools and applies them to his work in really interesting an insightful ways. Whereas I delegate! So last night when my daughter for her Year 4 homework had to write [...]

10May

Trying out alternatives

This started as a comment on Martin’s post about problems with Vista but grew a bit too long so I have put it here. I have too many machines (can you have too many ) the one I use most is the MacBook (especially now I have discovered it is Unix really), then the little [...]

02May

Drupal on a Mac – not quite as easy as I hoped

For a couple of reasons I decided to install Drupal on my Macbook: it seems to have become the prototyping tool of choice in the OU; I am thinking about using the ejournal module for the journal I edit JIME; and, I had too much real work to do so a distraction was in order. [...]

last updated 14-May-2012