<div dir="ltr">We should see Weller’s book as a call to arms. <b><font color="#ff0000">Instead of struggling on with our inadequate technological infrastructure, plodding commercial software packages, frustrating quality assurance forms and pointless research frameworks, academics need to be a lot braver and rediscover what it means to engage fully with pedagogy and research in higher education. </font></b>What’s more, we need to be more uncompromising, and start to develop our own 21st-century tools and ways of working. Now that would be worth getting out of bed for.<div><br><a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-battle-for-open-how-openness-won-and-why-it-doesnt-feel-like-victory-by-martin-weller/2018000.article">http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-battle-for-open-how-openness-won-and-why-it-doesnt-feel-like-victory-by-martin-weller/2018000.article</a></div></div>