Reading Time: 2 minutes Trying to understand what the authors meant by ‘interface transparency’, led me to reading around this term in publications on UX. My very quick take… It seems that the idea of the only good interface being a transparent interface took …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Summary This framework is based on the idea of the learning process being a conversation or, as Laurillard (1993) phrases it, “… a continuing iterative dialogue…” This conversation, between teacher and student, or student and student, involves: Discussion Adaptation Interaction …
Reading Time: < 1 minute C P Snow’s The Two Cultures (1959) pointed out the issue of having people with knowledge of a range of disciplines (a ‘culture’) unable to understand those from the other ‘culture’, yet needing to work together (it also claimed that …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Possibly the most depressing aspect of this paper (Heylighen and Herssens, 2014) is that it is so recent. It points out that “… recent developments towards… inclusive design… seem very promising… limited as their uptake… may be so far…” (p …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Firstly, this was a joy to read. It gives the impression of someone who is both comfortable and fully engaged with their subject. Though only this first chapter is core reading, I intend to read the whole book during this …
Reading Time: < 1 minute We were asked to suggest an example of media that represents a particular design that we found inspiring and say why we had chosen it. Gapminder came to mind. I was privileged to see Hans Rosling present Gapminder at a …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Though video (with an audio/voice track) need subtitles (perhaps a transcript too, especially if it’s long), audio recording alone can be even more inaccessible if not supplemented. To this end, I’m investigating how transcripts can be generated (if you have …
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s the end of Welcome Week, and I have just taken part in a series of online events to support new students joining Edinburgh. As a student who has experience of online learning, I was asked to join an online …
Reading Time: < 1 minute The lockdown meant that Bloody Scotland (an annual crime fiction festival that usually takes place in Sterling) was held online this year. In an interview with Ian Rankin, Laurence Block revealed that he used Natural Reader, a text-to-speech converter, to …
Reading Time: 4 minutes SHED Residential 2019 (Oct 31-Nov 1, 2019; University of St Andrews) Day 1 Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) – ‘Equality & Diversity in Classics Teaching’ This award-winning project was centred on practical measures to embed diversity. The creation of a new …
