My kids have grown up listening to me talk about universities, degrees, subject specialisms, education, learning, online learning, MOOCs, open-access education, and many many more […]

One way out of the mire that we’ve found ourselves in with our use (and reliance?) on social media is the personal blog, according to […]

Microcredentials have been on my radar for a while, and the article ‘Rethinking Credit Hours and Degrees’ by James Thelen has brought it to the […]

Back from a half-term break with the family, and I saw a poll on LinkedIn at the weekend asking about my/your favourite aspects of a […]

Have you ever been told to ‘fake it till you make it’? Do you remember the context? Was it about your skills or a particular […]

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work — from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of […]

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices, working out loud and skills for the networked world for […]

You remember what I said in this post about not writing any posts about ‘education/learning trends in [insert year here]’? Yeah. About that. I wrote […]

I saw something on Twitter that made me think back to a billboard ad I saw back when I worked in Southampton, around 2001. What […]

With the Thanksgiving dinner trimmings put away in the states, the busiest time of year begins to take on a life of its own. With […]

Labor Day weekend in the United States has come and gone. While the sun still shines in many places, most people have put summer behind […]

I’ve been using the institutional partnership Coventry University has with Linkedin/Lynda.com and have been taking a few short, video-heavy courses to further my understanding in […]