Authenticity: honest authors, being human
I briefly had a form up on my website for people to be able to contact me if they wanted […]
Plagiarism: desperately in need of redefinition in the age of generative AI.
The vernacular definition of plagiarism is often “passing off someone else’s work as your own” or more fully, in the
New Issue: Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (JOFDL) Vol 22(2)
It is my privilege to serve alongside Alison Fields as co-editor of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning,
Book on Writing Good Learning Outcomes
Introducing a short guide entitled: “Writing Good Learning Outcomes and Objectives”, aimed at enhancing the learner experience through effective course
Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection
During the Empower Learners for the Age of AI (ELAI) conference earlier in December 2022, it became apparent to me
Free Online CPD Course on Learning Outcomes (until 14th January 2023)
Have you got some time for professional development over the holiday period? Or do you have colleagues or design teams
The Metaverse explained for university leaders: opportunities and decisions ahead (4/4)
Who should universities watch? The question is to what extent universities feel the need to step into the developmental space
The Metaverse explained for university leaders: challenges for universities ahead (3/4)
Press coverage of recent cryptocurrency disruptions and the significant staff reductions at Twitter and Meta is giving pause for thought
Metaverse explained for University Leaders: What is currently possible within the Metaverse? 2/4
I am not selling anything here. That should be self-evident given that my answer to the question “what is currently
Metaverse explained for University Leaders: A simple guide to the immersive future (1/4)
University Leaders will doubtless come away from the latest round of late summer conferences with ideas about how to seize
Workshop review: ‘Innovating Pedagogy 2022’
Thursday 8th September I had the privilege of running an online workshop for FLANZ to explore the potential of a
The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is not from ‘essay mills’ but from Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is no longer from ‘essay mills’ and contract cheating but from Artificial
Psychomotor skills should be at the core of all learning
Any learning design framework that does not address the psychomotor skills is not worth exploring. There is not a single
do-not-reply@: the inefficiencies of email use demonstrated by graduates
Graduates, and their colleagues, born after 1970 are unlikely to have worked in a context in which email was not a primary communication tool. Its inefficiency is manifest but often overlooked.
How do you define hybrid, or hyflex, learning?
I struggled recently to define hybrid learning to a client. They asked how they could go about creating ‘hybrid learning’
Very Brief Overview of ‘Innovating Pedagogy 2022’
This very brief summary is in no way to be taken as a substitute for reading the full report, or
Teaching about existential threats: why we need to teach concepts, not just facts.
It has now been more than four months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and I have been thinking how badly we need to be teaching about existential threats. I think we need to develop a curriculum that is open to contemporary real world challenges.
Flexible Learning requires portfolio-centred course design.
ePortfolios, and indeed their analogue counterparts, allow learners to make selections of educational evidence, bring them together so that the