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Climate, AI, and Technosolutionism 

I’ve been working in technology and higher education for so long that sometimes I forget that I have a background in environmental science. This morning […]

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Reflecting about adopting more technology

This is just me thinking out loud…  My wife went for a run at the weekend. She does that.  I do not run, for the […]

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“Accessible” is not the same as Inclusion

Do we consider all learners when embedding digital into teaching, learning and assessment? If they don’t have the newest device, good connectivity, unlimited data, can they still participate, engage and learn, what if they have a disability? When practitioners start to use innovative practices and technologies is everyone included? It’s not often that I talk […]

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Beyond Metaphor: New Iterations of #JiscDigLead

co-authored by Donna Lanclos,  James Clay, and Chris Thomson It’s been three years since we ran the the first Jisc Digital Leaders Programme. During the programme we have have emphasised the need for leaders in education to model the behavioural change that they wish to see in digital. “Be more digital”, “Write a digital strategy”, […]

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Cutting back on sugar: thinking about behavioural change

In November I and colleagues will be delivering the next iteration of the Jisc Digital Leaders course, the fifth, and we have also got dates in the diary for January and February. One of the elements to the course is change management, we use examples of digital, but the key is the change. This week […]

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Of fiendish patches, and absent developers. An update to the previous post.

Last week I wrote a short story “Next Gen DLEs and Coach C on 15:11 from Cheltenham”. It recounted my struggles with the Crosscountry Trains on-board booking system, and  documented a series of failures and usability errors, both online and face-to-face. When I tweeted it, and cc’d @crosscountryUK for comment – they did kindly get […]

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#NGDLE behaviour CrossCountry Trains Digital capability Next Generation Digital Learning Environments Social Media Technology Enhanced Learning VLEs

Next Gen DLEs and Coach C on 15:11 from Cheltenham

Bear with me. This story starts with a journey. 25th April 2017, 14:30: Bristol. It was a Tuesday. I was heading home from a meeting. There is a Train Service provider in the UK called CrossCountry Trains. They have a fleet of trains with LCD seat reservations. The seat reservation system downloads all the reservations […]