Last week I took part in a panel session for the Times Higher Education (THE) Campus Live event. The panel was entitled 'Switching on and off: Building student cohesion in a blended world' and discussed topics around continuation of education for students learning in difficult circumstances, 'accommodating' asynchronous learning and ensuring quality of provision. I … Continue reading THE Campus Live – switching on and off

[…] what seems to have happened is that we have simply lost the art of placemaking; or, put another way, we have lost the simple art of placemaking. We are good at putting up buildings but we are bad at making places.’ (Hunt 2000) Since the onset of the pandemic the building has become a … Continue reading The art of placemaking for online learning

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