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 […]

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, […]

The annual conference for the Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) took place in Glasgow on the 23rd and 24th October. Myself and several colleagues from the Educational Design and Engagement section were presenting and we also attended a number of sessions on various topics, GenAI seemed to be the “ghost at the feast” in most […]

Earlier this year, all users of our digital badge service BadgEd were invited to take part in an evaluation of the service. This included Champions who support digital badges in Schools, Issuers who award digital badges to their learners, members of the Governance Group who give feedback and approval for new digital badges, and Earners […]

On the first day of July this year I had the pleasure of attending this year’s Higher Education Marketing Conference, run by HE Professional. It was a day packed with insights about higher education marketing from industry leaders, with a good mix of plenary talks and breakout sessions, and as my colleague Scott mentioned last […]

What is reflection? Reflection, as used here, means more than simply thinking about the past. Instead it means analysing it in depth, particularly for the purpose of informing the future.  Why reflect? Being able to critically analyse your past experience and use it to plan for future activities, is a crucial skill in any role […]

An instructional designer at UiT The Arctic University of Norway recently reached out to me, looking for information on running ABC Learning Design workshops fully online. Hoping to run online workshops themselves, but not quite sure where to start, Andrea Watkins Perez asked if I was happy to arrange a meeting with her and her […]

The last ALT-C I attended was when it was hosted here in at The University of Edinburgh in the impressive McEwan Hall in 2019, just before the world changed. So it felt appropriate that the opening Keynote by Chris Friend (Keane University, USA) ‘Humane Education: Empathy in Policies, Places, and Platforms’ focused in on the […]

I attended the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Universities Marketing Forum (UMF) on 6 June in London in my capacity as a member of its Volunteer Executive Group and as a member of the forum itself.The CASE Universities Marketing Forum is a community championing senior professionals working in marketing, communications and student […]