I'm a Subject Specialist at Jisc focusing on online learning and digital student experience.
One of the problematic areas of using storytelling as a tool for understanding ourselves and our world is that the relationship between story and truth is often fuzzy and unreliable. But what if we went all in on creating imaginary worlds and situations as a way of understanding and changing the real world? What if […]
A roundup of what the Jisc Digital Practice team have been doing and discovering over the last few weeks. This edition has been edited by Chris. Digital tools and spaces Impact of AI on learner engagement (LinkedIn) An interesting reflection on what impact automation in learning might have on interpersonal relationships and the informal opportunities […]
Effective digital transformation requires colleagues from right across a college to come together. Building those bridges is not always an easy thing to achieve. Over the last few months we’ve been speaking to professionals in IT, teaching and learning-related roles in FE organisations. We want to identify the conditions where effective cooperation on day to […]
TL;DR summary – loads of people turned up to our digital storytelling community activity at Digifest last week. This made me realise something important about humanising learning in a world that is being increasingly automated. Our storytelling community activity It was Digifest last week and we were really pleased to run a get-together for the […]
Chris hears from Miriam Firth about designing optionality into assessment in Higher Education. This is the second episode in a podcast series about Creative Approaches to Assessment
Chris gives a personal take on some of the themes and issues raised at this year’s Digital Universities UK conference in Exeter, with thoughts on AI, block teaching, student-centred design and serious play.
Chris shows how clearing a document’s redundant version history in OneDrive can have a impact on cloud data storage and carbon footprint.
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