Tomorrow I will start the long anticipated Educational Technology MOOC #etmooc (my first ever cMOOC). The course was designed and developed by Professor Alec Couros and his merry band of contributors. I’m quite excited to be involved in this MOOC. My only experience of MOOCs is completing an xMOOC on Gamification by Coursera and I […]
The Age of Discontent
Yesterday I had lunch with a long-time friend. I’ve known Maria for over 25 years. We first met at university and shared many Biology 101 lectures and pracs but our paths separated when she chose to study the geological sciences. In that time however, we kept contact, we shared meals at the uni cafe and […]
2012 – A Year In Review
Lately it seems that many bloggers are writing their last posts for the year and invariably, they’re called, “A Year in Review”. Who am I not to jump on the bandwagon? I’ve summarised my best posts for the year below but I’m going to start from April 2012 as prior to that, all I seemed […]
New Ways of Looking at Old Methods
Last week at our fortnightly Learning and Development team meeting – the last one for the year, we had one of the more robust team discussion we’ve had in many months. The aim of our meetings are to update what everyone is working on and as we are a relatively new team, to communicate what […]