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Hybrid teaching is challenging, but increasingly necessary. To do it successfully and reliably sessions need to be well-designed, with an understanding of the constraints and possibilities, carefully choosing an appropriate and feasible approach from the many options. This article documents the information needed and options available for designing effective hybrid teaching (or avoiding hybrid and using a different approach).
There’s a scale of sophistication in VR experience: Google cardboard style, using mobile phones and non-active headsets, without controllers. The user is stationary, but with their...
A holistic, evolutionary-adaptive, responsive, student-centric approach.
The maturity of an organisation concerns how well it is organised to understand, define, communicate, and address its needs and ambitions (its design capabilities) in the...
In my new role as Director of Student Experience in the Arts Faculty at the University of Warwick, working with our other DSEP Rebecca Stone I...
In a recent article for aeon journal I argued that videoconferencing could and should be a technology that grows key capabilities for human development, overcoming inequalities,...
Last week I made a successful pitch for a job which may include creating a new “programme” of educational opportunities, experiences, spaces and resources in the...
A quick response to a question about how we collect and use feedback from our students. Based on the modules I teach with Dr Bo Kelestyn....
This is a short article written to help people in thinking through their choice of techniques for teaching online. It is aimed at people who have...
I’m currently creating Moodle based web pages for our Design Thinking courses (undergrad and postgrad at the University of Warwick). Moodle certainly wasn’t designed using modern...
