There are numerous books about learning and many different points of view about how people learn and what kinds of institutions (if any) work best for students and the public at large.

This short piece is adapted from a lecture I gave some years ago about the way disciplines, in particular film studies, develop into departments within universities.

So much of what you are trying to do in your films…

Rabindranath Tagore's work on education and learning (He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.) is of great significance and is not as well known as it should be in the West.

I have come to realise that Atom Egoyan’s films must be understood as the continuing construction of an open ended oeuvre.

Clarity is a value that is celebrated in writing and journalism schools as is economy…

I recently attended a wonderful event at the University…

Exploring the Frontiers of Cyberspace…

I guess that the art of storytelling lies in finding the perfect balance between what to tell and what not to tell, whether orally, in writing or through images.

If you go to Joel Meyerowitz's epic images of Ground Zero…

In a series of writings published on the occasion of the 42nd San Francisco…

n the winter 1984-85 issue of Skrien, the most important…

Jaron Lanier, who is famous for having coined the term virtual reality…

My point here is that although computers are designed by humans, programmed by humans and then used by humans, this tells us only part of the story.

So why explore the intersections of human thought and computer programming?

This initial creativity was soon lost in the final version of “Understanding Media published in the 1964. In the book the medium becomes the message through the operations of an instantaneous sensory recognition of meaning.

Deep Blue is emblematic of a whole class of emerging computer systems that combine ultrafast processing with analytical software.

The context for learning, education and the arts has altered dramatically over the last few years as has the cultural environment for educators and artists/creators.

Innovative Content Development in New Media has some…

The notion of learning communities needs to be deepened through an analysis of institutions and how they function.