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

10 years ago this week, at London's Imperial War Museum, I stood before an audience of historians, literary estates, relatives of war poets, and colleagues to launch a new digital archive to support the study of First World War poetry. The archive contained over 7000 carefully selected and digitised poetical manuscripts and primary source material  (letters, diaries, photographs … Continue reading Digital sites of memory – have we remembered them?