Improving your (Blackboard) course
Here are a few of my initial thoughts on finding myself a Blackboard user again after a four year absence. These are based on my recent experience in picking up on courses designed by others, Read More …
Blackboard. Again
It feels like I’ve come full circle, that the last four years didn’t happen, but I’m back as a Blackboard (Bb) user again. My new role with Keypath Education, an online program management partner, has Read More …
GDPR and your blog
On May 25th, a new set of rules and regulations comes into law for UK and EU online data. This is GDPR … the General Data Protection Regulation. This isn’t going to be an all-out Read More …
Learning Technologists as Project Managers too
As I work my way through job boards and role profiles in my effort to avoid my recent redundancy and the impending doom of an empty bank account (yes, really) I have found a lot Read More …
Reading: TEL strategies from the perspective of disruptive innovation
This, from ALT Research in Learning Technology: The publication of institutional strategies for learning, teaching and assessment in UK higher education is practically ubiquitous. Strategies for technology-enhanced learning are also widespread. This article examines 44 Read More …
Change the title, change the work?
Have I had it wrong all these years … is not been about me being a Learning Technologist (LT), I’ve actually been an Instructional Designer (ID) instead? Bear with me here … This reflection is Read More …
Get to know a ‘digital champion’
Earlier this week I read and shared a post on the Inside Higher Ed website: Online Learning Shouldn’t Be ‘Less Than’ and tweeted this: WRONG!!! “They made it an online class because the teacher will Read More …
The last thing on my phone #EdLastThing
This is a bi tof fun, but also a good way to learn from each other … inspired by the Amazon short series called ‘Last thing on my phone‘, and by my work on my Read More …
What Facebook knows about me (and you)
This week (March 2018) there has been a lot written about Facebook, the data it collects, the data it ‘sells’ and the data available to developers, marketers, advertisers, etc. I’ll not go into it here Read More …
Career path
Reflection can be good for the soul. It can also be a time-waster and detractor from doing something more productive instead. This reflection is the 17th entry in my ‘what is a learning technologist’ series. Read More …