New Year, New PhD

Happy New Year. I start the New Year by starting my PhD with Lancaster University on e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning after it being introduced to me by Sheila McNeill, fellow ALT trustee and all round techy superstar. It’s a totally online programme with residential’s in the first and second years. I am really […]

Using iPads wirelessly with university projectors

For three years, I have continually asked how we can do this and thanks to the latest update from Apple, we can now use iPads wirelessly with projectors. Two directors of our IT department and senior leadership have confirmed this to be working well. Instructions (with thanks to Professor Simon Cox who has tried […]

The Great Wall

Today I was taken on a tour of the Great Wall. We travelled to Yanquing, Changping & Chaoyang. Stephen Gomez (HEA/Plymouth and soon Pearsons) and I travelled by a tour bus along to the Ming Tombs. At the Ming tombs our guide, Christine showed us a number of antiques and explained that the emperors tomb […]

Association of Learning and Teaching SIG MOOCs

I am rather excited, as I am one of the officers for the new ALT SIG on MOOCs. Mira Vogel and Steven Ryan are the other Officers. We have set up the Twitter account, @altsigmooc and the wordpress site has been created but nothing on there as yet. We are in process of readying ourselves […]