Advice on using Microsoft Teams
This is the advice that I give to people who are new to using Microsoft Teams, based on experience of using it in teaching for 2...
March 19, 2020
Advice for teaching online
Yesterday (18/3/2020), Bo Kelestyn and I (leaders of Warwick’s Design Thinking courses), participated in a Design Research Society Pedagogy SIG webinar on moving design teaching online....
March 19, 2020
VR Festival 2020 report
Investigating the potential for VR in education, research, public engagement and well-being. On the 5th and 6th of February, we ran an intensive series of events...
February 15, 2020
Designing, tame and wild
In Chapter 19 of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the psychologist Daniel Kahneman1 uses an argument that is useful to us in answering the question what is...
January 12, 2020
Interdisciplinarity for students at Warwick
We’ve got lots of interdisciplinarity opportunities for students at Warwick. So important for their ability to cope with & succeed in the modern world. Here is...
June 26, 2019
Innovation spaces at Monash University
The Innovation Studio is a purpose designed building in which staff and students may work together to design and develop innovative products and services for the...
November 12, 2018
Monash Teaching and Learning Building
The Education Building is a new state-of-the-art, purpose-designed, building at the heart of the Monash Campus. It seems to be approximately three time bigger than the...
November 12, 2018
Exploring the Monash campuses
We visited the two main campuses, both in Melbourne. Clayton seems to be a bit smaller than Warwick, with less student accommodation apparent. The buildings are...
November 12, 2018
General observations about Monash
In October 2018 I visited Monash University in Melbourne, as part of a Warwick/Monash project investigating immersive technologies in engineering education (with Graeme Knowles of WMG...
November 12, 2018
Using a Catchbox mic to change the dynamic in a lecture
I used the new Catchbox mic (borrowed from our AV team) last week, and it was great. It is a soft throwable mic in a cube....
February 26, 2018