There is no such thing as blended-learning.
There is no such thing as blended-learning. Or rather there has never been anything except ‘blended’ learning. Of course we […]
SOLE, Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
General thoughts and considerations
SOLE, Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Changing Faculty Roles in Changing Learning Spaces
It’s a long way from the staff workload issue that the SOLE model and toolkit sought to answer, but perhaps
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Serious Games and Social Media. What’s the connection?
There have been a series of provocative, challenging and inspiring conversations with colleagues at BPP University College this past week.
SOLE, Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Contextual Learning not Blended Learning
Terminology in education is a fascinating thing. Words are after all concepts. Concepts change, evolve and mutate frequently more quickly
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
The University Delusion? New College of the Humanities
It’s not every morning you wake up to find a ‘new university’ being announced in the United Kingdom. The BBC
Conferences, Workshops, Meetings, Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Teaching-Research Nexus Creative Workshop
Part of my role at the LSE that I really enjoy is working with staff to find novel solutions to age-old problems.
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise, Tools and Technology
Visual Rhetoric: Prezi explanantion
Yesterday I posted some early thoughts on how visual rhetoric might be important to us in thinking about how we
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise, Tools and Technology
See-Sick in Prezi: What place for visual rhetoric?
I have begun writing a paper on visual rhetoric. I sat on the 7:31 commuter train to St.Pancras and watched
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Lectures: Should they be Dialogue, Monologue or Soliloquy?
Serendipity perhaps. Yesterday I found myself looking at an article by James Davies (2006), ‘Dialogue, Monologue and Soliloquy in the
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Difficult Conversations in Ivory Towers: University and Civil Society
One might suggest Universities are simply having a tough time with reality. Where do we ‘fit’ now in Civil Society. Have we noticed that Civil Society has changed, is changing.
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Reviewing participation at LAMS 2009 in Oxford with the DiAL-e
Two conference in June/July in the UK 2009
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Talking about cognitive dissonance and structure
From information delivery to cognitive guidance
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Transferring practice to alternative contexts
I’m looking at some interesting uses of PowerPoint/Presenter as stand alone resources which might be seen as multi-modal workbooks, animated, engaging objects which stand-alone for the student.
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Sequencing, pause, reflection and action in learning materials
The mismatch or disjuncture in the authoring process for Word and the online learning delivery environment. We may NOT want academic staff authoring content direct into the VLE, but we need them close enough to the delivery context to understand the issues of sequencing, pause, reflection and action.
Academic Professional Development, Thoughts, Idle and otherwise, Tools and Technology
Anybody Out There?
Re-engaging with Second Life
Thoughts, Idle and otherwise
Next stages of reusability
Creating truly accessible learning objects with basic slideware