Category: Conceptualisations

Thinking outside of discipline areas and subject benchmark statements for university level education can be something of a challenge - see the HEA paper Interdisciplinarity: A Literature Review by Angelique Chettiparambil Rajan for a discussion of the arguments.

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been reflecting upon aspects of my ‘management’ and ‘leadership’ style prompted by instances of my inability to perform well – some miscalculations!

I think this has …

The software choices faced by the Ultraversity project have vexed Jonathan Furness and myself for a considerable time now, and the diagram above illustrates where our current thinking …

Working on conceptualising the Ultraversity model and have taken a Venn diagram approach to try and encapsulate the major components and show how they interrelate. Like many models, it is an over-simplification and has …

I have been musing how to explain what I think is the relationship between the tools we use and the user. The diagram above is a first attempt at showing this. I am …

I have been reflecting for some time now on the matter of ephemeral vs enduring comments and what the implications are for the online ‘teacher’. Clearly, in a f2f context much is said that is not meant, or at …

Many will have seen John Stephenson’s online paradigm (2001) that illustrates the importance of alignment of expectations between learners and teaching approaches. I wanted to take this idea a bit further and consider the importance of technology and teaching …

Bob Fryer’s (new role as NHS National Director for Widening Participation in Learning) take on the e-learning agenda came from a slightly different perspective from other delegates. His passion was located in the notion of citizenship and identifying the …