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Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies (#EdTech12)
I’m keynoting the Irish Learning Technology Association’s (ILTA) annual conference (#EdTech12) today and for the first time have created my slides using web-native HTML5 and CSS3. Click here or on the...
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Ambiguity, OER & Open Badges (#OER13 keynote)
Ambiguity, OER & Open Badges from Doug Belshaw I’m presenting at the OER13 conference today. My slides should appear above and you can also access them by clicking through here. I’ll update this...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Digital Literacies [video + article]
About this time last year, the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) kindly invited me over to keynote their annual conference. I had a great time and presented on Zen and the Art of Digital...
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Weeknote 28/2013
This week I’ve been: Booking travel/accommodation for what my team are calling ‘Badge Camp’. It’s a work week up in the mountains in Maine, USA where ‘yoga’ and ‘sleeping in’ sit alongside ‘strategy...
View ArticleMinimum Viable Bureaucracy: Practicalities
This is my third post on Laura Thomson’s marvellous talk Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. In this one I’m focusing on the section she entitled ‘Practicalities’. All of the ideas in this post should be...
View ArticleRadical participation: a smörgåsbord
Today and tomorrow I’m at Durham University’s eLearning conference. I’m talking on Radical Participation – inspired, in part, by Mark Surman’s presentation at the Mozilla coincidental workweek last...
View ArticleAre alternative approaches such as gamification and badging effective in...
Today I’ve been in Birmingham presenting at the AoC Learning Technology conference on behalf of City & Guilds. I made an audio recording of the 20-minute presentation to go along with my slides....
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My takeaways from Stephen Downes’ talk on personal learning
In general, I have great intentions to watch recorded presentations. However, in reality, just like the number of philosophy books I get around to reading in a given year, I can count the number I sit...
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Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity
Today I presented on a topic I’ve been presenting on for around 11 years now: Open Badges. I must have given 200 presentations on the subject, to audiences that number fewer than 10 to the several...
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A welcome corrective to narratives around the ‘future of work’
I ran a session at the Learning Technologies 2022 conference today entitled Verifiable credentials: get ready for the next generation of badges and digital credentials. It went really well and I got...
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