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 [...]
PhD / Masters opportunities with University of Bolton
July 15th, 2009 No Comments
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A University for Improvement
May 14th, 2008 3 Comments
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 [...]
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Heads of E-Learning Forum
April 2nd, 2008 1 Comment
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
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Lifelong learning
April 20th, 2007 No Comments
In my spare time , I am transcribing the interviews with Ultraversity graduates at the graduation ceremony in Chelmsford on November 24th 2006. Greta has done the mass of the transcribing, I am editing and very nearly finished. It is compelling stuff: “I just could never envisage myself here, with the degree because I always [...]
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