‘Non-traditional’ learning (for higher education)…portfolios and badges

The projects that I work on aren’t really projects in the technical sense. I like to think of them more as adventures into the unknown. They have a beginning and an end, but they don’t stick to specific milestones. Nothing is rigid and the work I am doing involves people, which means that anything can […]

Another good thing from Scotland – Badges (yay)

Things I love about Scotland: Lovely people Edinburgh with the CRA in June was beautiful. So much culture. I love that they wanted to stay in the EU. They rock Badges. I was looking for resources about Badges for the session I am running tomorrow with UG students from Geography. I gave the talk […]

Everybody wants some (digital literacies skills)

We had a fantastic conference on March 8th, ‘Open Badges in HE’ (I wanted to call it BadgeCon but there you are) at the University of Southampton. Over 150 people attended in person, and 100 online, from around the world. We were very fortunate to have both the UK and US perspectives on education using […]

Do you like Cheese? Polls for the masses – Twitter gets interactive

Do you like cheese #TwitterPolls Someone help me how do I — sorry im not alex (@HalseyPityParty) October 26, 2015 “Do you like Cheese?” one question on everyones lips. I knew that they were coming but wasn’t sure when, then over the weekend, I saw a Tweet via @EricStoller who drew my attention with his tweet […]

Exploring ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’

I came across this wonderful open access book from Tony Bates ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ I am still reading it but it is so completely relevant to the agenda for many of us that I had to share my thoughts here. There are twelve sections all relating to aspects of online educational practice, from blended […]