In this post I’m simply going to scatter, without elaboration, some seedlings of ideas for future investigation and related links on topics which have particularly sparked my interest during IDEL and are currently at the forefront of my mind. The list may well have changed by this time next week and again the week after […]

I would like to begin my reflection on the IDEL course with a song: ‘Living in Another World’ by Talk Talk. I’ve listened to it multiple times since the death of lead singer and songwriter extraordinaire Mark Hollis in February and it has taken on personal significance which is interwoven with my experience of IDEL. […]

Case study: Sussex Downs College ‘Employability Passport’ The Employability Passport comprises a set of sixteen badges acquired via completion of a variety of tasks which are intended to demonstrate possession of transferable skills in four areas deemed to be key to working life: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and work readiness. The Employability Passport was developed […]

For the Week 8 activity, I eventually decided to put not one but two MOOCs through their paces. Initially I signed up for ‘Digital Skills: User Experience’ on FutureLearn because I wanted to find out what lay beneath the UX buzzword and consider the extent of its relevance to my professional context, the MScDE programme […]