Tag: LearningMate

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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Adopt and Adapt

Time to Adapt and Adopt

Every body of work reaches that familiar moment: the big announcement, the new platform/course/system is live, the training sessions are

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Looking after your content / Maintenance

Looking After Your Content

We celebrate launches. The new course goes live, the announcement goes out, and everyone moves on to the next course

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Motivation

Navigating Change

Like many in Higher Education and beyond, I find myself facing an unexpected and difficult change. I’ve been made redundant.

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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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Red neon sign, on a restaurant wall, saying 'change'

52 things I learned in 2023

Inspired by Tom Whitwell’s annual collection of things learned, here are my ’52 things I learned in 2023′. The list

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Content curation with Flipboard

Once there was RSS and RSS feeders. Then there was the Twitter ‘favourite’ option (before it was changed to the

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