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Room 2.218 – ALT-C 2015 Day 3
It’s the final day of the annual Association of Learning Technology conference here in Manchester. I found an excellent little coffee shop in the university buildings across the road. Very nice coffee,...
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Got some good coffee in the end: Reflections on ALT-C 2015 #altc
This was an article I started to write on the train home, then I left it for a while, wrote a little more, and then a few weeks later, thought, I really ought to get this finished, so I did… The...
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Great Scott! – Back to the Future at FOTE15
There wasn’t a FOTE conference in 2015, which was a pity as it was one of my favourite annual events. I spoke at many of the conferences, most recently in 2014 when I spoke about the conflict between...
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Looking back – Weeknote #18 – 5th July 2019
The beach at Sand Bay A busy and confusing week for me with various non-work activities taking place, resulting in a more agile and flexible way of working. On Monday, that Amazon Photos reminded me...
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Hybrid
Image by Dean Moriarty from Pixabay I have been listening, writing and talking about how universities are planning for September. There is so much uncertainly about what the landscape will be like...
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Wot no lectures? – Weeknote #64 – 22nd May 2020
I have decided to take next week as leave, not that we’re going anywhere, but apart from the odd long weekend (bank holidays) I’ve not had any time off working since the lockdown started, actually I...
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..and then the proverbial hit the fan!
Photo by Thomas de LUZE on Unsplash I did think last week that this was just the beginning, when I posted my blog post about the uncertainty that the higher education sector was facing, when I noted a...
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The future is… – Weeknote #83 – 2nd October 2020
Over the weekend there was a huge amount of anti-university press in relation to Covid-19. I did think last week that this was just the beginning, when I posted my blog post about the uncertainty that...
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“All university and college teaching to be online unless face-to-face...
So there are still real challenges for higher education as infections continue to rise and groups of students being forced to self-isolate, regional and local lockdowns make it challenging to deliver...
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A highly statistically significant correlation exists between stork...
I have been working on some internal documents this week which has taken up quite some time. I read David Kernohan’s piece, What is it about small areas with large numbers of Covid-19 cases? On...
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Physical in-person face to face including aspects of digital and online as...
The week started with a run through of an online event I was participating later in the week. I published a blog post called The second wave arrived in which I look at the impact of the second...
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Returning – Weeknote #92 – 4th December 2020
Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay I have been thinking about the use of space for teaching and learning once we move beyond Covid-19. There are similar discussions thinking about the future of the...
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Pedagogy first – Weeknote #104 – 26th February 2021
Image by Amber Avalona from Pixabay The end of this week marks my second year as Jisc’s Head of Higher Education. I have spent nearly 50% of this job in lockdown. I have also been writing weekly...
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Getting it wrong – Weeknote #160 – 25th March 2022
I spent the week working from home, there was a combination of factors which influenced this decision, from home-schooling, builders, and plumbers. Next week I am in Manchester for the UCISA...
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It’s challenging – Weeknote #173 – 24th June 2022
Is it getting harder to get a university place? David Kernohan on Wonkhe certainly thinks it is, in his recent article. UCAS snuck some data out yesterday that appears to confirm what many have been...
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Record temperatures – Weeknote #177 – 22nd July 2022
This week saw record temperatures as a red warning heatwave hit the UK. I spent the week working from home, as trains were cancelled or delayed and there were problems on the roads. I wrote a blog...
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