Tag: Education

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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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The interview before the interview

Over the last few years, I’ve noticed a change in the way organisations are approaching interviews; increasingly, candidates are being

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Does this help someone learn?

One of the phrases I hear most often when discussing (digital) learning is that we need to make our content

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Microcredentials in HE (webinar)

Earlier this week, I attended the Digital Learning Institute’s webinar ‘Micro-credential Design Trends in Higher Education‘ with guest presenter Stuart

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What recruitment misses about experience

Recruitment has a habit of signalling who it wants, long before a CV is ever read. You can see it

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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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100 days of #100DaysToOffload

Well. Something that should have taken just 100 days to complete has taken me over 5 years and 4 jobs.

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Sponge or stone?

The ‘sponge and stone’ theory is a simple metaphor, but it carries an uncomfortable amount of truth. Faced with the

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Unbundling the university

Unbundling the degree

The idea of unbundling the university degree is often framed as something radical: a disruption driven by technology companies, MOOCs,

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