‘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 […]

Lost in Disruption #DMLLExpo

The Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University is one of those places that when you enter it you start saying “WOW”. I was there yesterday for their “Lost in Disruption Expo“, invited to give a keynote with Jacqui Speculand (raising her hand above) who is their Principal Project Lead. I met Jacqui when she […]

Open Badges, Digital Skills and O2

I was invited to the launch of the Open Badge Academy at Air Street in London, the HQ of Telefonica (O2) yesterday. Hosted by the TechPartnership which used to be eSkills we were introduced to the latest system for issuing, creating and displaying open badges. They are built on the open standard created by Mozilla […]

Stopping and Thinking at the #CRAResidential2014

I’m up in Birmingham (Aston University) with the Centre for Recording Achievement for their Annual residential conference. There seems to be a lot of reflection going on, and in the interests of that I thought I would write my own reflective piece. As usual there are a lot of people here from a range of […]