Online Learning?

Over the last few months the rhetoric around returning to campus and teaching face to face has become clouded by the fear that student experience will suffer if we have “online learning”. This was a confusing message for many of us in higher education who have been supporting staff to use online tools and other […]

The choices we make

I remember when I was at school and had to decide what subjects I would be taking for O’levels (or what became GCSEs). I went to a comprehensive school and the advice was that we should choose what we are interested in and not to choose subjects to be with your friends. Had they not […]

The making of UK commuter students digital access and use

It is the end of teaching in UK higher education and we are heading to the Christmas break. I watched the Making of Elf and that got me thinking about “The Making of” my study for my PhD I know there have been studies looking into the digital experiences of students and the ones I […]

Being lectured by an avatar … what’s not to like?

Originally posted on Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY :
Even the most innovative new use of digital technology in education comes with potential problems, and unforeseen consequences …? ** Recent news of lecturers being able to deliver their online lectures in the guise of virtual avatars (rather than appearing on screen as ‘themselves’) raises a host of…

Five Assumptions about student devices

This post is about the assumptions that we have on how students access the digital learning resources and sessions and how we need to rethink in order to provide fairer digital access