Amid a global Covid19 shutdown, homeschooling two kids, and  working full-time, I presented something resembling a conference presentation at this year's (moved online thanks to the great team @A_L_T) Open Educational Resource Conference (#OER20). I found this one difficult to prepare for. With the current climate there was a lack of head-space to craft it … Continue reading KARE-ful pedagogy in online education: a conference talk within a pandemic

This winter I participated in the ALT Winter Conference. It's a really great (and elegantly free) event - perfect for anyone who wants to edge into the conference circuit, and make a start presenting through the screen rather than in a conference hall. Or to test a new idea (me!). My talk was on something … Continue reading Learning designs for design thinking

Or, We are all educators now: the unbundled faculty Back in June I hosted a workshop at the Academic Practice and Technology Conference to explore the shifting roles of academic faculty and professional staff in technology-infused education. I've been meaning to write up the workshop for a while, but it's been one of those things … Continue reading Beyond the course team: an #LTHEChat blog

I had a paper accepted for ALT-C this year to talk about scaffolding fully online education, how it has been implemented in the past, and how we need to think about it differently going forwards. I am posting here a written summary of my talk, but if you would rather watch than read, it is … Continue reading Reaching through the screen: KARE as a new scaffolding for online education

Over the past few months I have been working on the development of a framework to guide the transformative design of online education at my institution. To date the institution has been using a Learning Design model that focus' on backwards design which is a neat and elegant approach for the design of online courses. … Continue reading Design Alchemy

I recently ran my second 'Changehack'. A changehack is a method developed by Peter Bryant, Donna Lanclos and David White for 'Future Happens' to bring together people to develop innovative and workable ideas to make change happen. Like a technology hack-a-thon participants dive into problems, define them, and 'nut them out'. A changehack uses similar principles of … Continue reading Hacking who we are