I'm a Subject Specialist at Jisc focusing on online learning and digital student experience.
Jisc’s Digifest conference has wrapped for another year. It was as enjoyable, challenging and informative as it’s ever been. The Community Hub area was a new feature this year; a space for the groups that Jisc supports to come together for some rare face to face time. Having launched in January, it seemed a good […]
Chris talks to Bath Spa’s Dr Rebecca Feasey about her team’s creative approach to assessment in media and communications.
Chris shares what’s on Nesta’s emerging technology watch list for 2024
Last week, Adobe ran the latest of its Creative Campus Collaboration events at Bath Spa University. I’d been invited to run a session so this is a brief summary of some of the main points. Assessing the process, not the product I’ve been thinking a lot about assessment recently from the point of view of […]
Chris reflects on this year’s ALT C conference at the University of Warwick, sharing some of his personal takeaways.
Chris experiments with ChatGPT’s abilities as a storyteller to see what we can learn about creativity.
Chris suggest some steps to help improving resilience of teaching and learning in the face of possible disruption to power this Winter.
Chris summarises why thinking about emerging technologies like the metaverse help us focus on the core principle of solving problems, not trying to fit solutions into our own contexts, taking a phrase by Jon Hofgartner as a helpful mantra.
Lis Parcell and Chris Thomson highlight some potential challenges for college teams dealing with heightened Covid absences, with a reminder of some strategies and resources that could help keep support services going
The “metaverse” is making headlines, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and others. Chris takes a first look at the discussions that are starting to surface about this vision for future technologies and how they might impact education.