Category: Online and Digital Learning
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Sustaining the digital transformation momentum through collaboration: why I have a problem with hero rhetoric
Opinion piece. Whatever the job title, whether it’s learning technologist, educational developer, learning designer, in my roles I’ve always seen myself as an enabler. The work I do has meaning only through the collaboration and partnerships with others. This work with others has a common goal, usually around enhancing the student learning experience as an…
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Microcredentials gain status and find their value for lifelong learners
The institutional barriers to microcredentials are coming down as UK regulatory recognition kicks in and creative thinking begins to support populations of lifelong learners. For those new to the concept, in this simplest of definitions, microcredentials are equivalent to taught higher education modules. Whilst the concept of taking individual modules rather than a full programme…
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Enabling learners to continue learning beyond programmes of study
Following on from a Twitter chat on the role of learning design that took place in 2020, I was invited back to follow up on one of the questions which focused on how educators can support learners to learn, both during and beyond programmes of study. Co-leading again with Sandra Huskinson, the six questions we…
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Between the trend lines: the digital university in 2021
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conducts an annual survey of professionals and researchers working in learning technology, supporting and delivering services in educational institutions and other organisations. The most recent data was collected between December 2020 – January 2021, and the report published in February 2021. This post captures my thoughts as I looked…
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Accessibility, balance and confidence: three areas of development for higher education
I’ve been looking at various surveys, analyses and reports recently to understand trends and the ongoing development in the higher education sector as online learning becomes established as embedded, rather than emergency provision, for campus-based programmes. In this post I explore Jisc’s Student digital experience insights survey (Jisc, 2021), which provides a useful snapshot of…
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Reading: Becoming digitally literate (Eynon 2021)
Reading notes. How we support learners from all backgrounds to be able to engage with online learning is of particular interest to me. Online learning can be transformative, it offers the possibility of open access, wide reach, international learning communities and learning for all levels of prior knowledge. In order for online learning to be…
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Reflections on SRHE seminar on mature students and adult learning in higher education
I have previously written in an opinion piece about my view of the role of education, and specifically online learning, to enable and empower all people as lifelong learners. This is a fundamental need in an age where careers change, technology advances and unpredictability reigns. To realise the advantage of online learning, learners need the…
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Learning technologists as learning designers: towards sustainable online education
This post explores some of the themes from a short workshop Sandra Huskinson and I ran for the ALT Winter Conference on 15 December 2020 (Huskinson and Cornock, 2020a). At the end of the session we invited participants to reflect and set a professional development goal. After you’ve read this post, I’d encourage you to…
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Does learning need to be designed and what roles are involved in learning design? Initial reflections of #LTHEchat
I was delighted to be asked to work with Sandra Huskinson to pose the questions for a #LTHEchat on Twitter on 8 October 2020 exploring learning design. Particularly when many educators are shifting to online learning, by choice or necessity, the role of critical discussions about what works, and what doesn’t, in different modes of…