Over the years, as I have developed as a teacher, I have been a strong advocate of the principle that ‘pedagogy must lead the technology’.     I found Cousin’s paper, ‘Learning from cyberspace’ remarkably interesting, as she sets out to critique this very mantra that I have chanted over the years. My new mantra […]

Two weeks ago, I really struggled to come up with a metaphor for a learning space. I chose a poem, Daffodils by WIlliam Wordsworth to represent the individual learning through inspiration that came from nature. I also liked a learning space as a metaphor of a journey, or conceptualised as a dining table or the […]

My collage is one of juxtapositions. Three papers contributed to my final interpretation of the spaces of the IDEL course: Bayne et al (2013) Being ‘at’ university: the social topologies of distance students Sheail (2017) The digital university and the shifting time-space of the campus Nordquist et al (2015) Designing spaces for the networked learning […]

  Click on the link below to see the Miro Board and the Student Photos of Learning Spaces. (Once you’ve had a look, please return to the blog and listen) Miro Board   Now please press play:   Distance students, we find, need their own version of the ‘certainties’ of bounded, campus space, while at […]