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Is unschool cool?
Last week I was fortunate to attend Ascilite 2012 as part of a visit to New Zealand where, with colleagues, I also facilitated a series of workshops around technology-enhanced learning and professional...
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Challenging critically not perpetuating the parochial
I recently posted the following on the Global Dimensions in Higher Education project blog. Given the focus of my own blog here, I’m sure my colleagues on the GD in HE project (@GDinHE) won’t mind me...
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The University as a third space?
Ray Oldenburg’s (1989) influential work on third places (or third spaces) within communities has been pivotal in encouraging sociologists, civic leaders and activists to look critically at how our...
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Academic development and technology in the next 5 years
I was recently invited by two colleagues to write a short reflection on how I thought academic development would evolve over the next five years, with respect to supporting and taking forward good...
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The ‘bounded’ curriculum?
What is the nature and purpose of ‘curriculum’ in Higher Education? And what, ideally, should it be? I have found myself increasingly challenged by these questions recently, partly through engaging in...
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Within, across, and beyond: ‘third spaces’ in tertiary education
This post is presented in two related parts. Part two relates to the title. Part 1. Overview of a recent learning spaces design event The context for this post is the Space to Succeed event held by...
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Reframing Open in the context of the Digital University – Part 2
In the first of the two blog posts that accompany our presentation at #oer16, Sheila MacNeill introduced our work exploring the idea of the Digital University that we have been undertaking with our...
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The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place...
I am helping to bring together the above titled event, which will take the form of a two-day symposium to be held at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, on the 8th and 9th of May....
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Situating digital space and place within the Porous University
Over the 5th and 6th of June I am at the joint SOLSTICE and CLT Conference 2017 at Edge Hill University. The programme is a rich and interesting one, as it always is at this event, and features a range...
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Student transitions to, within and beyond Higher Education. Special Issue of...
Over the last few months I have been working with Lorraine Anderson (University of Dundee) and Roni Bamber (Queen Margaret University) to co-edit a new Special Issue of the online, open access Journal...
View ArticleOpen practice and praxis in the context of the Digital University. #OER18
This week saw the latest in a small series of writing workshops for Bill Johnston, Sheila MacNeill and myself for our forthcoming book Conceptualising the Digital University: Intersecting policy,...
View ArticleRecently published – Conceptualising the Digital University: The intersection...
Well, it’s almost exactly a year since my last blog post. I blog sporadically, so it’s likely no one has noticed! It’s not good practice to blog so infrequently, although I have a good reason. Around...
View ArticleThanks and acknowledgements for ‘Conceptualising the Digital University’
Long before we got to the point of having an opportunity to write the book that became ‘Conceptualising the Digital University: The Intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice’, Bill Johnston,...
View ArticleMy inspirational women #IWD2019
For International Women’s Day 2019, the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands are running our second annual #InternationalWomensDay event. Our #IWD2019 organisers...
View ArticleComing full (culture) circle at #OER19 – Part 1
This is the first of two blogs posts that accompany the session “Unpacking the geopolitics of open for the strategic development of (HE) institutions and communities – what is a university for?” that...
View ArticleConceptualising the digitally distributed curriculum at #SOLSTICE19
On Wednesday 5th June this week I’m presenting at the annual SOLSTICE 2019 e-learning conference at Edge Hill University, which is organised and run as a joint conference by Edge Hill’s SOLSTICE Centre...
View ArticleOverview and thanks –‘Digital Learning: The Key Concepts (Second Edition)’
In my first blog posts of 2019, back in March, I was sharing news of the book ‘Conceptualising the Digital University: The intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice’ which myself and my good...
View ArticleFears, hopes and reimaginings: learning and teaching within, through and...
For many years I have had the privilege of attending and presenting at a number of the annual SOLSTICE technology-enhanced learning conferences run by Edge Hill University, presenting in latter years...
View ArticleReflecting on 2020 and looking to 2021: A year-end editorial from JPAAP
First published in the summer of 2013, the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (JPAAP) is an online open access journal that is focused on evidence-based academic practice within...
View ArticleUniversities and post pandemic digital praxis: reflecting on an opportunity...
A jointly authored post by Sheila MacNeill, Bill Johnston and myself Last September, we contributed a blog post to the Special Collection organised by Post-Pandemic University to celebrate the...
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