‘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 […]

From Curriculum Innovation to Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Every week I think I can’t get any busier than I am but then I surprise myself and this week has been no exception! It started with Curriculum Innovation and I met up with some people interested in running webinars with their students. New iChamps collaborations, both medicine and music this week, then I visited […]

Takeaways of a techy kind from #ALTc

I’ve just come back from ALTc – a learning technology focussed conference, three days at Warwick University. I wanted to record some of of it before I get consumed by the day job. 1. I noticed that there seemed to be less about the technology in particular and more about the human interactions with it. […]

Forget the straight and narrow – focus on the Curve

I’ve just been reading a book by Nicholas Lovell called the Curve. It’s essentially about embracing the change that has come with the digital world in which we live and about thinking differently. He makes a point about how the old fashioned way of thinking about your ‘product’ (whatever that is) was about the number. […]