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Jan
31
2024

What does social media mean to me?

Anti-Racism and Learning Technology SIG In my opinion

This blog was previously posted on Reshaping HE – International, Inclusive & Digital Ed. I pen this blog in response… View Article

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Nov
07
2023

Trying to Predict the Future of AI

Assessment Blog post Community In my opinion Innovative practice Online assessment Online learning Sustainability

Within this blog post, I will try to dispel some of them, and offer my take on real impacts that… View Article

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Aug
23
2021

I.N.C.L.U.S.I.V.E Learning Design

In my opinion Innovative practice Workshops

Digital education consultant Mari Cruz García Vallejo shares her collaboration with Educational developer Virna Rossi aimed at evaluating the learning… View Article

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Apr
16
2021

I don’t want to go back to normal!

Community Covid special collection In my opinion

These pandemic reflections are shared with us by Ian Wilson who invites us to consider what our “new normal” may… View Article

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Mar
20
2021

Pandemic pedagogy: in praise of collaboration and compassion.

In my opinion

Samantha Ahern is Faculty Learning Technology Lead at University College London. She wrote to the blog to share her reflections… View Article

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Sep
21
2020

Future of Online Executive Education shaped by the pandemic crisis

Executive education In my opinion

Business education, and in particular Executive Education programs offered by business schools, took a significant blow from the situation associated… View Article

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Aug
01
2018

Are creative media students really digitally literate?

ALT25 Digital literacy In my opinion

As the Association for Learning and Technology (ALT) conference approaches in September 2018, I reflect on the current position of… View Article

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Jul
23
2018

ALT Blog Post: Artificial Intelligence – Hype or Reality?

ALT25 In my opinion

We are living in an age of unprecedented change. The ‘fourth industrial revolution’ is having a profound impact on the… View Article

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Apr
18
2018

The eight pillars of pain, some reflections on designing an online information literacy resource.

Case studies In my opinion

Last year at OER I was carried away on a cloud of enthusiasm and promised faithfully to write a blog… View Article

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Dec
16
2017

It’s time for the next generation of leadership

In my opinion Open education

  In this blog post, I discuss some aspects of my latest research on next-generation leadership for education for all,… View Article

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Apr
03
2017

Questioning Joy (the noun not the lady/s)

Conference reviews In my opinion

Why should we look for opportunities to play and why would we encourage others, to do the same? These are questions that I have been considering over the last couple of weeks, following the excellent conference: ‘Remix Play Summit’, held at Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab.   However, I don’t want this post to […] View Article

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Will Brexit prompt universities to sharpen communication of HE value
Mar
02
2017

Will BREXIT prompt Universities to sharpen communication of Higher Education value?

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A survey by SIGNAL showed that 88% of UK universities believed that they would suffer financially as a result of… View Article

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