I think the start of my teaching career coincided with the rise of the VLE. Early on, I remember being told about these new learning environments and the array of tools that would help student learning. Encouraged, in the nicest possible way, to upload material and use the institution’s expensive new toy, many lecturers complied [...]
In our first week of our Trends in E-Learning module, we’ve been looking at the VLE is dead debate. The seed for discussion was Martin Weller’s blog post (now over two years old) which makes the valid point that there are several independent third party (free) applications out there that address most if [...]
Since coming across Articulate a few months ago, I’ve made quite a few presentations and loaded them onto our VLE. But a new project on developing open access resources meant that I needed to host the videos myself. This entry explains how I took my Articulate presentation and loaded it up onto a site I [...]
Latest Publications
Moving an in-class module online Chemistry Education Research and Practice 2012
Variety in Chemistry Education 2011 Education in Chemistry
The implementation of pre-lecture resources to reduce in-class cognitive load British Journal of Educational Technology
The Crystallisation and Phase Transition Characteristics of Sol-gel Synthesised Zinc Titanates Chemistry of MaterialsCategories
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