Richard Millwood

Had a very useful meeting in University of Bolton with colleagues intent on developing a community of research – the diagram illustrates our joint efforts to come to terms with this idea, but it does not clarify the concern I have, which is to be confident who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’ – I [...]

I have been working part-time in the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) at the University of Bolton for the last two years, after seventeen years at Ultralab. IEC houses three major projects: •    the JISC Innovation Support Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Studies (CETIS); •    the Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry-Based Learning project creating innovative higher degree [...]

Almost five years to the day that Ultraversity was validated at Anglia Ruskin University, we have received conditional approval for a new scheme based on the same philosophies of learner-centred, work-focussed, community-supported, action-inquiry and innovative assessment. This IDIBL course framework validated at the University of Bolton is more ambitious in scope, more refined in character [...]

I have been speaking on the issues surrounding Social Software in learning here at the Heads of eLearning Forum meeting in Coventry. Here are my slides as a pdf

Shirley asks about reading: What prompts students to read more relevant material? Is there sufficient emphasis on appropriate wider reading in the module resources? Are there sufficient opportunities for students to discuss their reading? How can students make better use of libraries, both on and off line? Is there a need for more help on [...]

  Loads of enjoyable discursive sessions here, but I enjoyed Scott Wilson’s workshop ‘Co-ordination and Control of Business Processes’ most of all. We discussed which higher education processes could respond to development in the light of technology developments. Our group’s diagram, although untidy led to a neat table of processes we felt could benefit from [...]