Why I gave my EU referendum vote to my 11 year old son
I’m not usually a political blogger. But this country is making me very angry. Here’s why. I’m 45 years old and I am (on paper at...
November 18, 2016
Extended Classroom presentation for LTSMG conference
This is a version of a presentation that I gave at the UK Learning and Teaching Space Managers Conference at Warwick in 2016. It is an...
November 18, 2016
Crowd sourcing questions as a student-staff partnership activity
Yesterday we had a great lecture yesterday by Prof Sue Rigby of Lincoln University. It was a rich and complex talk, with lots of good examples and...
November 3, 2016
Considerations for creating an institutional strategy for digital open badges
Here are the slides for a presentation that I am doing with Sophie this week. The audience will consist mostly of student service managers. The aim...
November 1, 2016
What are the pedagogic challenges facing teachers in HE today?
Yesterday I wanted to run a simple demo of Turning Point ResponseWare in a drop-in session at our new Oculus teaching and learning building. I left...
October 20, 2016
Calm designs for rich co-presence in crowded learning spaces: countering the fragmentation of the learning community
Here’s the overview for a paper (or possibly a chapter) that I am working on. Acceleration and the centrifuge 2015 marked the 50th birthday of the...
October 13, 2016
Connecting badges earned in Moodle with Open Badges Backpack
I am now using Moodle badges as a core part of our innovation-design strategy. Students and staff earn badges that indicate they have achieved a level...
July 22, 2016
Observations on avoiding skeuomorphic thinking (Will Self) and the post-MOOC paradigm shift
There’s been a couple of really useful articles in the Times Higher this week. First is a two part piece by Will Self (the author and...
July 21, 2016
Evaluating H5P interactive online learning content creation
I have been very impressed by H5P, and have seen just how effective it can be. Perhaps most importantly, many different people, of all ages and...
July 10, 2016
Evaluating the potential stickiness of a technology
How do we know if a new technology, deployed in a specific context, will “stick for a reasonable length of time”? What factors allow it to...
July 9, 2016