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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

19 10, 2012

jiscel12 digilit

By |October 19th, 2012|digital literacy|0 Comments

Students as digital partners and pioneers I wrote last week about a session at the JISC innovating eLearning online conference 2012 on open practices. This will be the seventh JISC online Innovating eLearning conference entitled Shaping the Future which takes place from 13th – 23rd November 2012. Another great session we have planned is looking at the [...]

21 11, 2011

telling stories

By |November 21st, 2011|digital literacy, ds106, learning|1 Comment

This video was made as an alternative to powerpoint slides to support a conversation between myself and Frances Bell at the JISC Innovating e-Learning Conference. We held a session in Elluminate on Friday 18th November and had a great conversation with the audience. I have made a text version of the audio 0 available as [...]

7 10, 2011

On being subsumed…

By |October 7th, 2011|digital literacy, learning, open education|0 Comments

Yesterday during Allison Littlejohn’s talk for change11, I mentioned something I have been thinking about as a result of conversations with Allison about collective learning, openness and literacy. I’d like to outline the thinking behind my question in this blogpost. Background Allison talks in her learning ecosystems post about the relationship between OERs,  literacies and [...]

6 10, 2011

Collective knowledge to Collective Action

By |October 6th, 2011|digital literacy, learning, open education|4 Comments

From OERs to Open Practice In a recent post about my OER work I talk about a move from focussing on open educational resources to open practice. This situates OERs within open practice - as one aspect of  it. So for me OERs are resources used to support learning in either a formal or informal [...]

3 08, 2011

digital literacy

By |August 3rd, 2011|digital literacy, ds106, learning|3 Comments

I have written before about the term Digital literacies and how I feel about it. That is not what this post is about. Terminology aside I am really pleased to see JISC funding a new programme around Developing Digital Literacies. I really enjoyed working on the JISC funded study which really set the stage for [...]

13 07, 2009

playing with prezi

By |July 13th, 2009|digital literacy, learning|0 Comments

>I've been waiting for an opportunity to have a go at using prezi - the zooming presentation software. As far back as 2003 I was experimenting with using concept mapping software to do presentations... but the software wasn't developed for that purpose and it was rather challenging although usually well received because it was different. [...]

27 03, 2009

digital literacy

By |March 27th, 2009|digital literacy|5 Comments

I generally try to keep quiet about this but I really dislike the term 'digital literacy'. history Part of it is due to history - we've been through a whole range of terminology starting with the change of library and information skills and computer skills to information literacy and computer literacy. Whilst these new terms [...]

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