I gave a talk in July at the Westminster Higher Education Forum policy conference 'The future use of digital technology and remote learning in Higher Education'. It was good to be invited to sit on a panel of experts talking about digital course design. Image by Brigitte makes custom works from your photos, thanks a … Continue reading The future use of digital technology and remote learning in Higher Education

This is a post I've been contemplating for a while now. Over the past year the dialog around online learning has very much focused on supporting the pivot to online, and rightly so. However as a result of this the voices from fully online have become lost. As many institutions start to explore the possibilities … Continue reading Mid-Point Design

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