Tag: Higher Education

A row of uniform beachhuts, but all different colours

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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Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education

Designing beyond detection #GenAIN3

Over the past year, one question has surfaced repeatedly in conversations about generative AI in higher education: “What do we

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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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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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24th Durham Blackboard Users' Conference #DURBBU

Little things, big pressures #DURBBU

There’s something quietly comfortable about reflecting on an event like last week’s DURBBU. Reflection and time away helps me gather

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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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