Like an extinct fish: January review
via GIPHY Seeing as January seemed to last about a year, I may as well do a review of themes over it as if it was an end of year review. I may attempt one of these at the end of every month with the...
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The tyranny of the timetable
“06553 (469) 24-11-1986 Passenger Bulletin Board (timetable) at the Railway Station at San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines.” by express000 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Scheduling and the creation of...
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The joy of the Between the Chapters podcast
I blogged a while ago that Clint Lalonde organised an incredible community audiobook project, with different people reading a chapter of the 25 Years of Ed Tech book. Laura Pasquini got in touch over...
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The tech futures in 2000AD
So, confession time – I seem to be regressing to childhood in lockdown. As a kid I used to get the sci-fi comic 2000AD every week. I had numbers 1 to about 450, but when I went to uni my mum gave them...
View ArticleThe post-lockdown springback & what it means for education
via GIPHY When we eventually limp out of lockdown, it will be interesting to see the range of reactions from everyone. I suspect there will be the full continuum of responses. Some people will have...
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Welcome to dial-a-view – February review
Following on from last month’s hugely successful (ie completely unread) monthly review, here is my February one using the same categories. Highlight: Puppy! After going through the home improvement...
View ArticleWoolf University – whither the blockchain?
via GIPHY Some of you may remember a few excited announcements back in 2018 about Woolf University, a startup that was, and I paraphrase, going to blockchain the shit out of higher ed. The founder...
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Wellness washing in higher ed
Created by the Historic Tale Construction Kit (thanks to Fi Daisy G for sending the link – I saw the gag on Twitter but couldn’t find the original so recreated it) When the OU was going through its...
View ArticleEducators are not risk averse and complacent
via GIPHY I know the article was clickbait, but this THE piece, entitled “Risk-averse academy needs to get on board with new tech” was a classic of a sub-genre that has been around for at least 30...
View ArticleRising – March review
via GIPHY Highlight: In a time when fun is in short supply, it was a ball to be a guest on Terry Greene and Anne-Marie Scott’s podcast “Check the O.L.: Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online...
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What the ALT survey tells us about the online pivot
The Association of Learning Technology conducts an annual survey. This is always a useful tool to track learning technologists (and their institutions) attitudes towards different technology. This...
View ArticleFor the last time
via GIPHY I was considering the other day, that after a complete year of lockdown with no travel or conferences, I wonder who I have met for the last time? Over the past year I’ve seen a number of...
View ArticleProctorio – Unis as custodians
via GIPHY During the recent European Super League furore there was much talk of football club owners being ‘custodians’ of the game (see, for example Everton’s statement). This might be a romantic,...
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Let’s go to the ocean – April review
Cool Bryan Mathers intros Highlight: The OERxDomains21 conference was a big highlight this month. When we’ve all become accustomed to online conferences, it is difficult to make any of them feel...
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So you want to write a book – pt 1
I’ve written six academic books in my career, of varying quality and usefulness. I occasionally get asked advice on different aspects of the book writing process, so I thought I’d gather some thoughts...
View ArticleWriting a book pt 2 – the proposal
via GIPHY So, having dampened your expectations about the transformational aspect of book writing in the previous post, you’ve now set yourself up to think of it as a job like task. The first part in...
View ArticleCarry, carry on – May review
Highlight: I’m going to wrap three GO-GN events up for this (although one took place in April). First, we ran a one day seminar prior to OERxDomains21, which saw the incomparable Bryan Mathers running...
View ArticleWriting a book pt 3 – the writing process
via GIPHY So you’ve realised you want to write a book, you’ve got your proposal accepted – now you just have to write that damn thing. There will be many ways to approach this, so all I offer here are...
View ArticleVirtual working as the new online learning
via GIPHY Now that everyone shifted to virtual working, we are seeing lots of the same queries raised about that as we have seen for the past 20 odd years regarding online working: Is it as good? Can...
View ArticleWriting a book pt 4 – keeping going
via GIPHY In the previous posts I’ve looked at motivations for writing a book, getting the proposal done and the writing process. So now you’re on your way, full of enthusiasm, you’ve got a plan,...
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