The Digital Academic

It’s so ironic… I left work last September. My career in education was always centred around virtual learning so here’s the irony. At a time […]

Flowers from Cristina Devecchi after the viva For six years, there’s been a V-shaped light at the end of the PhD tunnel. Now the viva […]

image from https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/cinderella-having-tried-on-the-glass-slipper-produces-its-news-photo/3322408 Research based on teaching and learning has been named the Cinderella of higher education. As a result, the scholarly endeavours of practitioners […]

image from https://pixabay.com/photos/backdrop-block-brick-building-21534/ Since seeing the quote ‘a PhD is a thing of joy‘ at last week’s Research Conference at the University of Northampton, I’ve […]

I love a good conference! Themes running through the Annual Research Conference were around research being creative, inclusive and applicable. It needs to make a […]

image from https://pixabay.com/photos/zen-stacked-stone-meditation-1412305/ As I prepare to leave my current role, my visible digital participation has reduced to an occasional retweet. I’m now watching from […]

image from https://www.amazon.in/Amazon-Echo-Smart-speaker-Powered/dp/B0725W7Q38 The family refer to Alexa as ‘she’ but there’s no sentience. Alexa is a form of artificial intelligence, built to respond to […]

image from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524474 I’ve often wondered if what we call the internet keeps Sir Tim Berners Lee awake at night. Reading his open letter to […]

image from https://pixabay.com/photos/files-paper-office-paperwork-stack-1614223/ 241 pages (without the front bits and bibliography) 77298 words (and rising) My thesis is now in a single word file and […]

image from https://pixabay.com/photos/sheep-bleat-communication-2372148/ The Community of Inquiry model suggests successful online education requires cognitive, teaching and social presences.  I’d agree that designing around this combination […]

image from https://pixabay.com/en/puzzle-missing-particles-654963/ The requirements of a PhD are straightforward. It should produce robust claims for an original contribution to knowledge. In other words, what […]

image from https://pixabay.com/en/web-network-programming-3706562/ Mistakes can be useful learning tools but we’re rarely rewarded for getting something wrong. Another way to learn is to have something […]