• An apology

    LIFE blew up again. I started a new job with a major consultancy (check my LinkedIn if you’re really curious). It is an awesome place, but there are a lot of things to learn and a lot more things to get…

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  • Learning Design

    We’re now onto the second part of the OUH880 – Adapting to Contexts. In this part of the course we’ll learn about how context influences learning and how educators can use technologies to create effective learning in different environments.

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  • Group assessment

    I hadn’t even thought of how you could assess group work before this course. The task for today was to read a paper giving guidelines on assessing group work in a university setting and then recommend an assessment approach for a…

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  • Judgement of your peers

    Judgement of your peers

    This post is a response to an exercise from Week 6 of OU H880 Technology Enhanced Learning. We’ve been asked to assess and describe a number of methods of peer assessment to help out a producer for a MOOC on creative…

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  • MCQs in the house

    MCQs in the house

    In week 6 of the Technology Enhanced Learning course, we’ve been learning about assessments, in particular: Multiple choice questions (or MCQs if you’re an ID) Peer assessment e-portfolios (there’s a habit of putting e- in front of things here…I don’t like…

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  • Mentoring and teaching on MOOCs

    Mentoring and teaching on MOOCs

    I’m in week 5 of the OU course on Technology Enhanced Learning. As part of the course, we had to participate in a Massive Open Online Course (or MOOC), mainly to find out how MOOCs work, but also to learn more…

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  • No Learning Technologies

    No Learning Technologies

    I tried…but then something happened. Actually the problem was that I was in the middle of an application process for another job. I was already lying my arse off about taking time out for interviews, and I didn’t want to excite…

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  • Learning Technologies 2019

    Learning Technologies 2019

    I may actually get to Learning Technologies 2019 this year. Usually I plan to go and then get sucked into to some project-related madness at the last minute, but this year… oh yes. One of the reasons is that I’ve decided…

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  • Updates!

    It’s been a while. But I thought I had better update the portfolio with a few of the exciting things I’ve been working on for the past few years. I’ve branched into development, creating animated interactive HTML5 learning for our new…

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  • The world and her dog appear to be in love with the Periodic Table as a thing of design beauty. elearning Brothers got in on the act with the Instructional Design periodic table, which I thought I’d include here in its…

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Welcome to my blog!

I collaborate with stakeholders, learners and SMEs to identify learning needs and establish measurable performance metrics, and use this information to design learning that enables learners to reach their full potential and perform excellently. In this blog, I aim to share my expertise, insights, and experiences.