9 03, 2023

Developing digital leaders

By |March 9th, 2023|digital literacy, digital transformation, online learning|0 Comments

In today's rapidly changing digital landscape, effective leadership in educational organisations requires a range of skills and competencies. Digital leadership is needed to guide and manage an organization's digital transformation, leveraging technology to achieve strategic objectives and drive innovation. I have recently been working as a consultant with Jisc to support some UK universities with [...]

17 03, 2020

Online learning – doing it quickly due to COVID 19

By |March 17th, 2020|learning, online learning|0 Comments

Due to several people having to rush towards online learning and teaching I thought it may be useful to do a post drawing together some of the work I've done in the past that is freely available and might be helpful. Doing it thoughtfully Online learning and teaching is not something to do quickly - [...]

7 01, 2020

Digital wellbeing

By |January 7th, 2020|digital literacy, digital wellbeing|0 Comments

One of my favourite jobs last year was carrying out a Jisc funded preliminary study on digital wellbeing. I worked with Heather Price and Alicja Shah from Jisc on this study. The study looked at existing literature and definitions -  see this library on Zotero if you are interested to see which reports, articles and [...]

3 09, 2019

Accessibility and inclusion

By |September 3rd, 2019|digital literacy, technologies|0 Comments

I have been working as a consultant with the Jisc digital capabilities team for the last couple of years as they developed the digital capabilities service. One if the elements of the service is the discovery tool which I have written about before. The discovery tool offers a series of question sets for staff and [...]

13 11, 2018

Jisc discovery tool

By |November 13th, 2018|digital literacy|0 Comments

For the last year or so I have been working with Jisc colleagues and fellow consultants Helen Beetham and Tabetha Newman on a very large scale pilot of the Jisc discovery tool. Jisc Building digital capability service The discovery tool is part of the Jisc building digital capability service which has just launched as a new Jisc service. [...]

26 06, 2018

Human resources teams supporting digital capabilities

By |June 26th, 2018|digital literacy|0 Comments

I just completed some work for Jisc with my partner Tim Gray to carry out a short review into how Human Resources (HR) departments support staff to develop their digital capability. The original intention was to capture a snapshot of current practice through a survey and interviews. How HR teams support staff digital capabilities HR teams in FE and HE [...]

12 05, 2018

Digital leadership course launched

By |May 12th, 2018|digital literacy, digital transformation, learning, online learning, open education|0 Comments

I have already written about the work I did for the Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) programme. The online course in digital leadership has just been launched Adoption of C-DELTA in a country will help determine the level of digital education leadership skills in its educational institutions and provide a national benchmark for [...]

27 10, 2017

C-DELTA course in digital leadership

By |October 27th, 2017|digital literacy, learning, open education|0 Comments

I recently authored some course modules for the Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) programme. C-DELTA course for Digital Education Leaders I was working with the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching CILT) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The conceptual framework underpinning [...]

3 03, 2017

LLiDA website

By |March 3rd, 2017|digital literacy, learning|0 Comments

Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for the Digital Age Between July 2008 – May 2009 I worked with my colleagues Helen Beetham and  Allison Littlejohn on a fantastic research study funded by Jisc. The LLiDA Project was led by the Caledonian Academy at Glasgow Caledonian University. It aimed to find out what literacies learners need to thrive in a digitally networked world, and [...]

1 09, 2016

Successful online learners

By |September 1st, 2016|learning, online learning, technologies|0 Comments

The report considers the key questions addressed by the study: 1. What are successful online learners like? 2. What do successful online learners do? 3. How do successful online learners feel about learning online? 4. What differences among online learners are significant to their success? 5. How can providers and teachers/facilitators support online learners’ success? 3. How do successful online learners feel about learning online? 4. What differences among online learners are significant to their success? 5. How can providers and teachers/facilitators support online learners’ success? 4. What differences among online learners are significant to their success? 5. How can providers and teachers/facilitators support online learners’ success? 5. How can providers and teachers/facilitators support online learners’ success?

8 07, 2016

Online learning checklist

By |July 8th, 2016|learning, online learning, technologies|0 Comments

I have already written about my work with Heather Price at Jisc on the Scaling up Online Learning (SUOLL) programme. The  working group identified several pieces of work that would benefit the sector. They suggested a Scaling up Online Learning toolkit which would  offer tools, techniques, strategies and activities at institutional, strategic and delivery levels to support the [...]

5 07, 2016

Autistic learners

By |July 5th, 2016|autism, learning, online learning, technologies|4 Comments

This week we are holding #OLsuccess week which is designed to capture voices of online learners - people with a particular preference or need to access their learning online. This might be through choice or may be something that they have to do as part of a face to face course. One of the challenges for [...]

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