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

I remember my Grandmother telling me 'Kate, you must always be kind'. For some reason that really stuck with me, it is a huge part of my personal values. In today's society kindness is one of the traits we admire most in people, along with openness and honesty, empathy and  understanding. Yet, in the professional … Continue reading On the pedagogy of kindness