Category: Technology

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Beyond consistency: designing a VLE template for quality, regulation and student success.

When we started developing a new Blackboard module template, the obvious direction was to consider consistency, usability and the student

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Digital Transformation

What problem are we actually trying to solve?

Digital transformation is often misunderstood as being about the technology and implementing it: buy the right platform, implement the right

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The importance of a VLE review

Most VLEs are treated as standard infrastructure, a static system that is, at best, functioning; delivering modules, hosting content, running

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Meetings & transcripts & summaries

There was a time when recording meetings felt exceptional. It implied formality, risk, or mistrust. Today, it’s becoming something else

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Single Point of Failure

My son dropped his phone in the sink. It was in there for seconds, not minutes. Retrieved quickly, dried out,

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System of Systems

I heard education and universities described as a ‘system of systems’ today, and this brought together many different strands of

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ChatGPT Prompts

Prompts // 8 (Practical Innovations)

Just because I’ve not written about AI, Generative AI, LLMs, and ChatGPT for a while doesn’t mean it hasn’t been

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ChatGPT Prompts

Prompts // 1 (Opening Thoughts)

There’s no getting away from the hype of developments in and around Generative AI at the moment. I admit it,

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AI vs Algorithms

There is a distinct difference between AI and an algorithm. Somehow I feel we’re missing this in the way it’s

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