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Recent Posts
- AI in Education: What About Staff Use?
- Defining & Navigating the Jagged Frontier in Instructional Design – Phillipa Hardman
- 5 golden pieces of advice that apply far beyond writing
- Notes from ‘Becoming a Learning Designer’ webinar
- Run meetings better..for good!
- Micro video lectures
- Free School Meals and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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AI in Education: What About Staff Use?
There has been, and continues to be, a lot of chatter and panic across many sections of society with the rise of AI, not least education. Schools, colleges and universities alike. The predominant focus has been on student use of … Continue reading
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Defining & Navigating the Jagged Frontier in Instructional Design – Phillipa Hardman
If you work in Learning Design and wondering about using of AI to do the heavy lifting, then Dr Philippa Hardman‘s latest blog post is essential reading >> Defining & Navigating the Jagged Frontier in Instructional Design – What we … Continue reading
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5 golden pieces of advice that apply far beyond writing
A good read by Bob Brody reflecting on his long experience as a writer. Now 73 years old, and as he puts it, with 50 years of rejection behind him, he argues that embracing rejection was ultimately a good thing. … Continue reading
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Notes from ‘Becoming a Learning Designer’ webinar
Image attribution: Manchester Metropolitan University Earlier today I participated in University of London’s Centre for Online Education’s ‘Becoming a Learning Designer‘ webinar. Credit to the organisers for raising an unquestionably hot-topic currently. After all, we have seen the demand of … Continue reading
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Run meetings better..for good!
One of the many aspects of corporate and workplace culture that everyone experiences are meetings. Whilst meetings enhance collaboration, aid in decision making and help to generate ideas, they can be the cause of so, oh so, many hours of … Continue reading
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Micro video lectures
‘Video lectures with system-paced pauses have been shown to significantly increase learning when compared with lectures without pauses or those that allow learner-paced pauses.’ #onlinelearning #highereducation #learning via Neil Mosley https://er.educause.edu/articles/2022/2/short-and-sweet-the-educational-benefits-of-microlectures-and-active-learning
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Free School Meals and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Amongst other things today, like preparing an online exam, I have been thinking of child poverty and the whole free-school meals debacle. Friends who are creating online learning for schools should consider this: Paulo Friere, the founder of critical pedagogy … Continue reading
“In digital learning we believe!”…until…
The clip below is making its round amongst friends on social media. Unfortunately I don’t have a source to give it’s due copyright attribution. Nevertheless, whilst the clip will be evoking lots of different messages for different people, my thoughts … Continue reading
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Design with people in mind first, not technology
Sometimes we forget that learners are real people. By and large, people prefer easy tasks to those that are hard. People want to be happy, and want convenience. Now we all know learning can be difficult, and technology, if planned … Continue reading
Preparing to meet (or train) online – some pointers
Necessity is the mother of all inventions, goes the saying, and so it’s intriguing to see how quite suddenly, with the unprecedented circumstances that have recently surrounded us, that online meetings and training have become the norm. At the time … Continue reading
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