Over the last few years I have been working with colleagues (Donna Lanclos and David White) on the Visitor and Residents process. These resources are now available and ready to use, with this post, Donna’s and Dave’s adding some of the the context. Visitor and Resident as a continuum of observed behaviours works well; and…
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Leading Change in Libraries: A keynote for UXLibs 2
We all have experience of change initiatives at one level or another. After being involved in more than 200 change projects across the higher education sector, and working with senior staff at more than 60 universities, this keynote was trying to communicate some general principles around leading change. A lot of people helped me in…
Read moreDo we need new pedagogies? Really?
I was engaged in an online discussion recently, and frankly annoyed. There are a lot of commentators pushing for pedagogy to catch up with technology, or for technology to catch up with pedagogy. And don’t even get me started when someone starts throwing around things like heutagogy. So I wanted to reflect on three things…
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Marginal Gain and Digital Capability
[caption id="attachment_7820" align="alignright" width="285"] Making small changes in digital practice[/caption] I was recently looking at the visitor and resident map I had drawn around my own digital capability and practice and was wondering what I could or should be doing that would make a big change to my own practice. Later in the day I…
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Changing the way we do change?
Is it time we changed the way we do change programmes? Peter Chatterrton and I both worked on the Changing Learning Landscape Programme and have recently published our reflections on the findings of an in depth look at some of the issues. In “Perspectives on changing the environment for change” we discuss the role of…
Read moreFraming the Jisc Digital Leadership Programme
“Understand your own practice, identify where you want or need to develop, build the capability in you and your team.” This may seem like common sense, but often we don’t take the time to really reflect on what we do and how we do it. This can be especially true when it comes to digital…
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Mapping Practice and Strategy: Leadership tools from Visitors and Residents
I’ve been thinking about the role that recognising and understanding one’s own practice, especially in the digital space, can have when it comes to a more complex awareness of the strategic and operational aspects of an organisation. In serendipitous co-evolution of this idea Lanclos and White have recently delivered a more strategic focused workshop of…
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Making the Change: Technology Enhanced Learning
The Changing the Learning Landscape programme was a multi-agency approach that sought to help institutions bring changes to the student experience through the appropriate use of technology. As well as being multi-agency from the external perspective, the success of the programme was also in large part due to the participation of multiple agents in the…
Read moreChanging Learning Landscape: Strategy and Change #CLL1213
This 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 moreSix ways to ensure sustainability for technology based interventions
Over the last two years I’ve been very lucky in working with some excellent projects in three JISC programmes; Users and Innovation, Institutional Innovation and Building Capacity. This community of projects hold a vast core of information and knowledge about the use of technology in institutions and how to get the most of it. In…
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