Talis launches Talis Education Divison

The activities of the team behind Project Xiphos have been rolled up into a brand new operating division – Talis Education – which launched this week, including a shiny new site and blog. We’ve migrated all the posts from this blog over to the new site, including the podcasts, so we’ll no longer be posting over [...]

The edgeless university: why higher education must embrace technology

I do love a nice trip to London with work, and rarely more so than when I’m covering an event that has a solid line-up of auspicious individuals who are destined not to agree on the theme of the day. Today was the launch of Demos’ report The edgeless University: why higher education must embrace [...]

Alma Swan talks with Talis about the Open Access movement

In this podcast I talk with Alma Swan from Key Perspectives. Over the past 5 years in which Open Access publishing has undergone considerable growth, Alma has been a reference point, providing useful and authoritative research and analysis into the progress of the Open Access movement, drawing upon her experience in both scholarly communications and [...]

John Baker talks about Desire2Learn and the changing Higher Education sector

In my latest podcast I talk with John Baker, CEO of Desire2Learn. We discuss the company’s attitude to designing software applications, and consider some of the changes in the Higher Education sector since their first products appeared a decade ago. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Commonwealth of Learning IEEE IMS JISC and my podcast with Executive [...]

John Wilbanks talks about Open Data and Science Commons

In my latest podcast I talk with John Wilbanks, Creative Commons‘ Vice President with responsibility for the Science Commons project. We discuss Science Commons and efforts to make data created from the conduct of science more widely available. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Berkman Center Tim Berners-Lee speaks at TED Bio2RDF CC0 license Free Software Foundation Linked Data Merck’s [...]