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Show me the evidence…
I think this line is really interesting from a recent discussion on the ALT Members mailing list. …in particular to share these with academics when they ask for the evidence to show technology can...
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It’s not what you say you do, it’s the way that you do it!
I was thinking the other day that I don’t have enough readers of the blog and insufficient engagement. So the solution has to be that the name of the blog isn’t right. First idea would be change the...
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You too can be a millionaire!
Yesterday was A Level results day, for over 800,000 students they got a letter explaining the outcome for most of two years studying. For some it will be an amazing result and they will progress onto...
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Survivorship Bias
In my recent blog post I reflected on the wealth of news articles about highly successful people who failed their A Levels, or how everyone can be a millionaire I was reminded of this great XKCD...
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Time is a solution…
Is time the solution to the problems we face in education? It can be nice to have the time to do new and interesting things, but the reality in which we live, work and learn, is that time is limited...
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Hey Siri, are you real?
Following on from my recent blog post about installing voice assistants on campus, I recently read an article, Giving human touch to Alexa or Siri can backfire, on how trying to make voice assistants...
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Nice little video from the University of Derby on the fourth industrial revolution. What is Industry 4.0 and what does it mean for you? Of course Education 4.0 is view of how universities and colleges...
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The tyranny of the timetable
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay What is a timetable? An academic timetable is a way co-ordinating four elements: Students Academics or teachers Rooms Time Currently the timetable is something that is...
View Articlee-Learning Stuff: Top Ten Blog Posts 2017
This year I have written 21 blog posts, in 2016 it was 43 blog posts, in 2015 I wrote 24 blog posts. In 2014 I wrote 11 and in 2013 I wrote 64 blog posts and over a hundred in 2012. In 2011 I thought...
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e-Learning Stuff: Top Ten Blog Posts 2019
This year I have written 52 blog posts. I decided when I got my new role in March that I would publish a weekly blog post about my week. Back in 2018 I only wrote 17 blog posts, in 2017 it was 21 blog...
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Building a community
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash It doesn’t always work, and it doesn’t always work the way you expected. Here are some of the strategies I have used in creating, building, developing and...
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Coronavirus: What if this had happened in 2005?
Over on the BBC News Site, Rory Cellan-Jones, their technology correspondent has written an interesting “what if” piece. But as I spend my day holding video-conferencing sessions with colleagues,...
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Making that move from the radio…
Image by Lubos Houska from Pixabay In the current climate of change and uncertainty, as well as the emergency response to the coronavirus, universities are going to need think differently about how...
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Intelligent Campus and Coronavirus Planning
Photo by Philippe Bout on Unsplash For a few years at Jisc I was working on the Intelligent Campus project and then got a new role as Head of HE and Student Experience. I still have an interest in the...
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What have we learnt?
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay This was the question that was posted to the Twitter this week. What have we learnt from the first 3 months of COVID lockdown – both positive and negative – that will...
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A common language
Image by Patrik Houštecký from Pixabay So what do you understand by the term blended learning? What about an online course? A hybrid programme? Could you provide a clear explanation of what student...
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So what of the future?
Image by Quinn Kampschroer from Pixabay We are living through a period of unprecedented disruption, it isn’t over, so what do we need to do in the short term, the medium term and how will this impact...
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Nightmare timetabling…
Photo by Ahmad Ossayli on Unsplash So we know many universities are planning for blended and hybrid programmes with some aspects of courses delivered physically, but socially distanced. Some parts will...
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Do we need to worry so much?
Image by Couleur from Pixabay Over the last couple of months in lockdown I have written various blog posts about the challengesthat universities and colleges have faced with their emergency response to...
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Uncertainty
Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash It’s interesting to see how things keep changing adding much more to an uncertain future. Back at the end of June as we started to emerge from the coronavirus...
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