Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week […]
There’s been a lot of talk at the University around Change Management particularly at a strategic level. The Association for Project Management (APM) defines Change Management as “the overarching approach taken in an organisation to move from the current to a future desirable state using a coordinated and structured approach in collaboration with stakeholders.” In practical terms it’s how can we make […]
On Tuesday 2 June, colleagues from LTW teams came together for a Learn Resilience Exercise. The purpose was to test how we would respond if one of the University’s key teaching and learning systems became unavailable, and to think practically about what that would mean in a live incident. With cyber security and large-scale IT […]
In late April we had the opportunity to attend the 24th annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference, affectionately known as #durbbu, hosted in historic Durham. This year’s theme, Little Things that Make a Big Difference, was a pleasant shift in focus, moving away from (seemingly never-ending) AI discourse to the subtle yet impactful changes that we […]
When we first heard about the relocation plans to Forrest Hill, we were cautiously optimistic. Knowing there was a studio there, and given that our studio at Argyle House was modelled after Forrest Hill’s, it suggested that moving to an already familiar setup on the fourth floor would be easier than starting from scratch. The […]
It’s been a year since Instructional Designer Andrea Watkins Pérez at UiT The Arctic University of Norway reached out to me after she came across my University profile. Their Learning Design team was facing some challenges with running ABC Learning Design workshops online, and they wondered if I would be up for meeting to talk […]
On the 23rd and 24th October, myself and some colleagues from Educational Design and Engagement attended and presented at the annual ALT Conference in Glasgow. It was great to come together with the learning technology community to share practice and discuss challenges in the sector. A highlight was being able to share the experience of […]
The Association of Learning Technologists Conference 2025 (ALTC) was held in Glasgow on the 23rd and 24th of October, and a contingent of us EDE team members went along to deliver papers on some of the work we’ve been doing these past years. Keynotes, paper sessions, workshops, and posters about all aspects of learning technology […]
As a first timer I wasn’t sure what to expect before attending the ALT conference on the 23rd and 24th October 2025. Being from a project management background I don’t necessarily think of myself as a learning technologist but I do work in learning technology so maybe I’m just a non-traditional learning technologist? That word non-traditional came up quite a bit across the 2-day conference […]
On the 23rd and 24th of October a few of us attended the Association for Learning Technology’s 2025 conference at the Marriot hotel in Glasgow. The Educational Design and Engagement team had a couple of presentations in the parallel sessions, with Paul and Robyn presenting on the excellent work that our Learn Foundations students do, […]
