Education, digital, change and transformation
Prologue So, I’m going to be 60, or if you’re reading this I am 60. It doesn’t feel momentous, I’m not even sure it should be. When I was growing up it did. I was the youngest child of parents who had me much later than most of their peers. So when I hit 20,…
Read moreThis week saw me at the Open University contributing to the AUA professional development programme. They’ve already been looking at Professionalism, Careers and Personal Branding, they invited me to come in and share some thoughts and lead a discussion around what social media might add, in terms of both risk and reward.For the benefit of…
Read moreToday I ran a session to support projects working on the Changing Learning Landscape Programme. This was very much designed by Glyn Jones, and the examples drawn from the work I’ve done working with the LTSN (now HEA), TechDis and JISC. The session was designed to support the embedding of a specified change. This embedding…
Read moreThis morning I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the “Influencing Strategy and change processes to enable the embedding of digital literacies” event in London. My slides are below, and at the bottom are some of the tweets from during the presentation drawing out some key points. I would also like to…
Read moreDave White and I gave a keynote entitled Academic Credibility Online at the University of Bath Learning and Teaching conference last week. It was a good opportunity to test the ideas around the Individual as Institution idea and also explore their relationship with the Visitor – Resident model / framework. [slideshare id=21207976&doc=bathdavewhitelawriephipps-130515083739-phpapp02]
Read moreChanging natures Access to a ready means of publishing, social media is being used by a cohort of academics and academic related staff that can be identified and recognised through the online promotion and increased visibility of their work; and importantly interaction and collaboration with others. This kind of activity has lead to success, with…
Read moreOn Friday I was working with a university to work on developing their Technology Enhanced Learning Vision. The day was structured around building a vision of the future both in terms of the environment that the university might find itself operating in and the type of student that they would be attracting. The outcomes are…
Read moreA lot of my time’s been taken up, and will be taken up, working on a fantastic multi agency approach to supporting step change in HE and HE in FE institutions by working with senior staff in 23 institutions. Out of this we will create some fantastic road maps and models for change in the…
Read moreIs the way we use language in technology having a negative or positive effect? It’s a debate that’s been going on a while, but a discussion over the weekend with a new student prompted me to put something down about the authority that jargon seems to carry. It’s been interesting discussing some of the issues…
Read moreThis year I was invited by SEDA to talk to delegates at their annual summer school about the idea of digital in an academic setting. As I’ve previously posted, I’m not a huge fan of the language in this area or the way I feel that technology is sometimes pushed over practice. I decided that…
Read moreAccording to the Mozilla Open Badges project “A ‘badge’ is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest.” I’ve been discussing their role in education and personal and professional development with a few colleagues for a couple of months. Whilst I am still undecided whether or not I really like the idea…
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