Langcliffe hatchery investigations 1982 [on River Ribble near Settle]

Langcliffe hatchery investigations looks at fish mortalities for salmon (fry), sea trout, brown trout and rainbow trout, and explores the River Ribble's water supply

Eros and agape in Karl Barth’s Church dogmatics

This is the author's PDF version of an article published in International journal of systematic theology© 2000. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.This article discusses the concepts of eros and agape in Karl Barth's Church dogmatics

Interpreting human life by looking the other way: Bonhoeffer on human beings and other animals

This is the author's pdf version of the book chapter

Unweaving the Web: Beginning to think theologically about the Internet

This is the author's version of the book.This book discusses features of the Internet that are new and theologically challenging and how these features affect the way we think about place, time, and identity

Playing chicken: Theology, economics, politics and ethics in the campaign for better conditions for poultry

This is the author's pdf version of an article published in Epworth Review© 2008. Epworth Review © Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes.This article discusses animal welfare and Christian ethics within the context of the campaign by celebrity chefs to encourage people to eat free range chicken

The problem with human equality: Towards a non-exclusive account of the moral value of creatures in the company of Martha Nussbaum

This is that author's pdf version of the book chapter.This book chapter discusses human equality

Angels, beasts, machines, and men: Configuring the human and nonhuman in Judaeo-Christian tradition

This is the author's pdf version of the book chapter.This book chapter offers four snapshots from the Judaeo-Christian tradition of the theological significance of the distinction between human and nonhuman life

On the importance of a drawn sword: Christian thinking about preemptive war—and its modern outworking

This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics© 2007.This article discusses the just war tradition.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies

Virtual worlds are authentic sites for learning

This chapter considers how ‘meaningful learning’ can be understood in the context of knowledge-age skills. Through a study conducted in Second Life™, it investigates whether terms such as ‘authentic’, ‘active’ and ‘collaborative’ can be applied to activities undertaken in virtual worlds. It examines the knowledge-age skills employed in virtual worlds, relating these skills to the characteristics of the learning environment. Finally, it asks whether the distinction between meaningful and non-meaningful learning environments is more important for the development of knowledge-age skills than the distinction between formal and informal situations or between staff-run and student-run situations

A new model for information literacy provision: how to balance cost and quality in an economic downturn

In this time of swingeing cuts in higher education, the Open University Library has focused creative energy on making efficiency savings while still providing a top quality e-service. The Open University’s quarter of a million part-time students are distance learners whose information literacy skills are developed and progressed as an integral part of teaching materials delivered within a VLE. This paper will focus on one of the Library’s contributions to the Open University’s strategic aims: to continue the process of transferring traditional information skills to the end-user by developing a range of new and re-usable generic tools and resources, in this example by creating a repository of core re-usable information literacy learning activities to cover each skill as set out in the Library’s information literacy framework. The Library’s Information Literacy (LIL) site provides short chunks of learning to be used in modules and degree courses in a flexible way. The pedagogy is aligned to the level of study, i.e. increasing independence in searching for, finding, evaluating and managing information, progressing from undergraduate to Masters level. The paper will outline the process costing of writing and re-versioning learning activities, how we measured the savings made in production costs of new modules, and the impact of the drive to produce less OU academic authored bespoke material by integrating either core generic IL activities or re-versioning generic material for re-use within particular subject contexts. Finally, the paper will set out how the benefits of providing students with a consistent IL experience, and making cost savings were ‘sold’ by our team of librarians to faculties of academics largely intent on writing all their own teaching materials from scratch for every module