It’s widely accepted that the most important part of learning and teaching is what the student does (Biggs, 2012). The spaces, tools and tasks in and through which students “do stuff” (i.e. learning, or not) are in some way designed by a teacher with subsequent learner adaptation (Goodyear, 2020). Designing learning spaces, tools and tasks is not easy. Especially when […]
Supporting the design of discipline-specific digital learning activities
Visualising and pruning my Memex
Update – now automated memex links In writing the following I stumbled across the idea that writing blog posts in Foam would enable the merging of content from Memex and blog posts. I then discovered it didn’t work out of the box. More work was needed. But the nature of the technology involved meant that it wasn’t that hard and […]
Pondering if and how Hax & web components fit in Blackboard
So look what I’ve done inside my Blackboard Learn sandpit site. It probably doesn’t look that exciting. A bit of HTML and a couple of animated GIFS. Anyone could do that, right? Not quite. Following explains why this is a bit of game changer and explores how it might be leveraged in work with Blackboard. It’s not the what, it’s […]
