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Shared understanding
Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash The first Polish language dictionary (published 1746) included definitions such as: “Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is.” Within the world of digital and online...
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Transformation
Photo by Philippe Bout on Unsplash Universities have traditionally designed courses for in-person face to face teaching. This process is based on years of experience in delivering programmes of study...
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Looking through that digital lens
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay The pandemic crisis has provided universities with serious challenges and required creative thinking to provide solutions. Universities have needed to act at pace and...
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It wasn’t online learning!
Image by Regina Störk from Pixabay One of things I have noticed is how often much of what was done during the numerous lockdowns was described as online learning. Let’s be clear you can describe what...
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e-Learning Stuff: Top Ten Blog Posts 2021
Image by Regina Störk from Pixabay This year I have written 113 blog posts. In 2020 I had written 94 blog posts. In 2019 I had written 52 blog posts which was up from 2018 when I only wrote 17 blog...
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Eventedness
I was recently reminded of the importance of eventedness when it comes to events and has similar implications in the delivery of teaching both in-person and online. One of my favourite presentations...
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Personalisation
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash The process of making something suitable for the needs of a particular person. What do we mean by personalisation, what can we personalise, what should be personalise...
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Thinking about digital transformation
Image by Serge WOLFGANG from Pixabay This blog post is not about providing a clear definition or understanding what digital transformation is and how it applies to the higher education sector. So, what...
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The Butterfly Effect
Image by Desha from Pixabay In the world around us the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies is a marvel of nature. Though technically referred to as metamorphosis rather than transformation,...
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Expanding our understanding of personalisation
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay In my role at Jisc I have been looking at how data and technology can deliver a personalised learning journey and we have in our HE strategy, Powering UK Higher...
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The duality of digital teaching
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay When we talk about online and in-person many of us think of this as a dichotomy, either we are online, or we are in-person. The reality is though as we know, that this...
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Go and be more innovative
Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay When I think about innovation in the use of technology in education, I always first look at the formal dictionary definition of the word innovation, my dictionary,...
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Time is still an issue
Image by Bruno Glätsch from Pixabay Though I have written about time lots of times over time (well at least the last twenty years); across the sector we are still discussing that we need to provide...
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Shortness and Sweetness
Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash The use of digital technologies for learning and teaching, doesn’t just happen. Staff don’t always instinctively pick up the skills and capabilities to utilise the...
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Napsterfication
Image by Firmbee from Pixabay When it comes to digital transformation in education, I wonder if we can look at what happened to the music retail industry and the impact of digital over the last few...
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Transforming the television watching experience
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay When we start talking about digital transformation, I often see people focusing on the digital aspect and expecting the transformation to follow on. Where we see true...
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What about the croissant?
Over on my productivity and technology blog I have published a blog post on culture, strategy, breakfast and croissant. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is a famous quote from management...
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Lost in translation: some thoughts
Image by Pexels from Pixabay I have over the last couple of years been working on a series of blog posts about translating existing teaching practices into online models of delivery. One of the things...
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Happy New Year – Weeknote #200 – 30th December 2022
Photo by Alexander Naglestad on Unsplash Happy New Year No weeknote this week as I am on leave. My top tweet this week was this one. #duvetknowitschristmas https://t.co/fuVeRMyhGb — James Clay...
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e-Learning Stuff: Top Ten Blog Posts 2022
Image by Patrik Houštecký from Pixabay This year I have written 92 posts to the blog. There were 113 blog posts in 2021. In 2020 I had written 94 blog posts. In 2019 I had written 52 blog posts which...
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