Author: Matt Cornock

  • Universities as transformative communities

    Universities as transformative communities

    Opinion piece. One of the great advantages of working at a university is the collective passion for learning and teaching. This comes through a community of practice centred on students’ educational experience and the long term impact of higher education. Institutional conferences that bring together students, academics and professional services focus attention in the university…

  • Renewing my Senior CMALT portfolio

    Renewing my Senior CMALT portfolio

    A little behind the three-year cycle, I have renewed my Senior CMALT portfolio, which (thankfully) passed and captures my commitment to the Association for Learning Technology core principles. Senior Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (SCMALT) is for experienced learning technology professionals or those with leadership responsibilities who are able to demonstrate influence…

  • A leadership framework for online and digital education: adapting ALT Framework for Ethical Learning Technology

    A leadership framework for online and digital education: adapting ALT Framework for Ethical Learning Technology

    In a leadership role I adopt reflective practice to explore ways to improve my approach and ultimately enable me to support my team to achieve our team and organisational objectives. Collaboration is one of my underlying principles and I have shared my thoughts on this previously as particularly important in educational settings. Recently, I have…

  • Thinkingful design: finding more to learning design through the Online Learning Summit

    Thinkingful design: finding more to learning design through the Online Learning Summit

    It’s been a couple of weeks now since I attended and contributed to the Online Learning Summit at the University of Leeds. Like many, I am still processing the many ideas, methods and challenges discussed and using these perspectives to critically appraise my own work and more broadly that in the online education sector. I…

  • Thoughts on education, art and finding connection

    Thoughts on education, art and finding connection

    Opinion piece. When I visited the Hepworth Wakefield in April, the exhibition of drafts, prototypes and completed works triggered a somewhat surprising emotional response in me. In an age where knowledge is on tap, much working time is spent in a digital ecosystem and creative endeavours have the potential to be reduced to the algorithms…

  • Thoughts on AI and education: the quest for productive education and the need for human context

    Thoughts on AI and education: the quest for productive education and the need for human context

    Opinion piece. This post is definitely outside my comfort zone with reference to artificial intelligence (AI) and certainly beyond my qualifications in this area. I am writing as an educationalist and as a human being trying to make sense of my own values of education and my feelings about the potential of AI. There is…

  • Metaphors of learning design: LEGO

    Metaphors of learning design: LEGO

    Metaphor and analogy are both powerful ways to convey complex concepts, representing ideas in different ways that better relate to individuals prior knowledge or contexts. Though sometimes metaphors and analogies can be just plain confusing. In this post, I’m having a little fun for a change and will attempt to convey curriculum and learning design…

  • Online education portfolio strategy and learning design

    Online education portfolio strategy and learning design

    This article explores the relationship between online education portfolio strategy and learning design within higher education. It suggests four groups of learning experience aligned to addressing professional learning needs and the relationship between different learning experiences as part of a portfolio or product mix. Online education portfolio strategy An online course portfolio represents the combination…

  • Reflection on 2022 and a view to 2023

    Reflection on 2022 and a view to 2023

    As 2022 closes, I realise that I have had a busy year and not necessarily kept my reflections posted in a timely manner on my blog. I share a few thoughts on the year that’s been and include a reflection I hope will resonate with colleagues in the online and digital education sector to take…