The Pandemic Pivot

Reading Time: 3 minutesThese are unique days in which we are trying to evolve and adapt to a situation that is unpredictable and unrelenting to everyone. The current pandemic is generating stresses in both professessional and domestic lives with the only certainty being that in the short term are lives will be flipped and we all be affected […]

All work at home and no play makes Myles …..

Reading Time: 4 minutesWorking at home, the last frontier….. for some! I have been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work at home (WAH for those that love an acronym) for 12 years thanks to the flexibility of my employers and the ability to do IT stuff remotely. Whether it was building Citrix servers, packaging applications, […]

OnTask: Learning Analytics to help you stay on target\ontask

Reading Time: 3 minutesUsually when I blog I try to think of a funky title to depict me brian dump however today I am feeling less imaginative so the title reflects the blog. It’s about the OnTask pilot 2020 @ the University of Edinburgh. If you want to hear someone rant about big data and prediction please flick […]

I Predict a Riot

Reading Time: 4 minutesPrediction is a word that I am starting to see and hear a lot more recently. It not new, my fitness tracker predicts my steps each day and my expected sleep patterns, my smart lights predict when I will be home and my smart thermostat also likes to know when I am home ensuring I […]

Suspicious Minds or similarity

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you work in edtech and someone has asked about online assignments you will have probably had the plagiarism chat. It usually ends in the same workflow being adopted which uses a tool that the majority of the UK institutions utilise. I am not name dropping however we as a sector may need to reflect […]

The M&M Podcast Edpiside 2: Bots in education

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe second episode of the Michael and Myles (M&M) podcast explores the expansion of the teacher function via bots. The podcast speculates on the role of bots, current bot deployments, bot myths and the research currently being undertaken at the university to identify possible use cases for bots. Now thats the official bit of the […]

The M&M Podcast

Reading Time: 3 minutesM&M Podcast Episode 1: Setting the Scene, Terms, Topics Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it – Ferris Bueller This time last year I wrote my first blog, today I publish my first podcast, what is happening to me! I work with some […]

Data freedom fighters, Data terrorist or Data Gangsters

Reading Time: 3 minutesData is a funny thing, I feel like its a riddle that we all are acutely aware off existing however seem paralysed to do anything about nor own it. What do I produce but never see, never own but has direct impact on everything around us and not just me ? The data conversation is […]

A micro what? MicroMasters descrbed via the medium of cake

Reading Time: 4 minutesFor those unaware what a MicroMasters is let’s talk cake (I would like to state now if you don’t like cake then replace the word cake with pie or whatever makes you happy). The Cake shop Imagine if I went to a specialist cake shop which was world ranked in the top 50 cake shops […]

Big Humans & UoE Teaching and Learning Conference 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesI attended the university if Edinburgh Teaching and learning conference this week. It’s the second year of the conference and browsing the session list it looked mega intimidating with references to papers and pedagogies plastered all over the place. Now I need to be honest (not Flea Bag honest but honest) before I blurb anymore. […]

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