I’m embarking on a new project, in a very different direction to where I’ve previously thrown my energy. I won’t say too much about it here since my intention is to start a new site for it but my goal is to curate an autoethnographical experience in third space transformation Read more…
I’ve been working on a strategic project for the last while that’s tasked with overhauling the business degree suite. Which has led me with my education and creative arts background and all the business nous of a sock to try and learn some things about business, including entrepreneurship. Warning: possibly Read more…
Yeah I went there. Not even sorry. Lately I’ve been musing on adaptive learning. I’m not going to talk about the Moodle lesson module, which I have a long illustrious history in hating, or proprietary solutions like Smart Sparrow or anything Adobe branded, which I also have a long illustrious Read more…
This happened on twitter earlier, because it’s edutech o’clock, but it could be any day, any conference, any speaker. https://twitter.com/sthcrft/status/872719682058338304 Can we please just stop with the inspirational change porn, presented via the medium of exactly the same damn lecture we’ve done for centuries. Call it whatever you like, call Read more…
If you’ve been paying attention to my work for any period of time you’ll be aware that me working on student-generated/collaborative content in WordPress is nothing new. But when I started doing this years back, I was using a centrally-administered WP install over which I had no admin rights and Read more…
Having been contacted again recently by people who are implementing the Moodle Dailies concept and the Coffeecourses concept at their own institutions, I’ve been reflecting on both the excellence of the internet and the depressing ironies of institutional politics, as well as the concept of ‘impact’. Since both projects are at least Read more…
I’ve been doing this PD-genre gig for close on 10 years now. And largely, my efforts have to date have focused on either satisfying the demand for F2F standalone workshops, or venturing outside the box with almost exclusively online nonstandard stuff. Which has seemed logical to me, online stuff is flexible, Read more…