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Reflections on the Digital Ways of Working Project (DWEEP) evaluation
Mike Collins ~ Learning Designer In the past couple of weeks, our colleagues over in the Learning Innovation team published the report of the Digital Working Environment Exploratory Project (DWEEP), an in-practice exploration of the use of virtual environments to support collaboration and hybrid working. The Learning Design team took a lead on the evaluation…
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Playful Learning 2022: Reflections and conference-in-a-pod
It’s a few weeks after the Playful Learning conference, and even after a bit of time to decompress I’m still a buzzing, overstimulated mess. And you know what? I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. In this article and accompanying podcast, I’d like to share my take on the conference: my impressions, my takeaways,…
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Fit for learning: CPD as a daily exercise
By Paul Astles So what is CPD? CPD stands for Continuous Personal Development. Often, CPD can be perceived as something that happens through mandatory training sessions rather than being an active process that you can be involved with daily. Al-Asmari (2016) discovered that some staff viewed CPD as a challenge to overcome rather than a…
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Conference to practice: more takeaways from ALT-C
ALT-C was intense. It featured more than 100 sessions, many of which called for some deep thinking and reflection. Some time has now passed since the ALT-C conference, so we thought it would be good to reflect on what stood out for us. Here, Mark, Olivia and Shawndra share their highlights.