Higher Education

16 posts filed under Higher Education.

2026

  • – The Value of Process and Artefact
    One of the tensions at the heart of the current AI debate is one I’ve been interested in for a long time – the conflict between where we place value: in the artefact, or in the process that produced it.
  • – The Binaries of Education
    In education, context determines what works – not ideology.
  • – The Professional Toolkit
    Can you just roll up your tools and leave any more? Some thoughts on the nature of labour and higher education.
  • – Why the Canvas hack was innevitable
    While the news focuses on the hack, I wish we'd talk about the decision-making that made this thing an inevitability.
  • – All in the Verbs
    Continuing on my work on a three-dimensional approach to Blooms – time to tackle the verbs.
  • – Beyond the Cognitive: Rethinking Bloom’s Taxonomy
    A case for expanding Bloom’s familiar triangle to include the Affective and Operative domains — and why it matters for modern education.

2025

  • – A Value Proposition & Outcomes Focus
    With an imminent restructure in mind, I thought I'd take a stab at starting to define what I bring to the table and what I've achieved beyond the tangible.
  • – Leading through Change
    Here's my somewhat anti-Change Management approach to leading through change.
  • – Outsource & Centralise
    The desire to outsource and centralise in organisations tends to do more harm and cost more when it comes to knowledge work.

2024

  • – A big fish in a small bowl looking out
    Weaving some thoughts on what's happening at work and on the socials and reflecting on what I should be doing. Staying in the fishbowl, or jumping into the ocean.
  • – An Open Design System for Learning
    This presentation was given at the OE Global 2024 conference in Brisbane, Australia, on the 14th of November 2024.
  • – Finishing
    Our work to develop two fully online programs for Open Universities Australia has come to an end. Three years of work is a challenge to get your head around and try and capture in a meaningful way.
  • – The State of the Merger
    A story to try an capture the feelings of working through a university merger. Based on personal experience and would differ wildly from other perspectives across both organisations.
  • – Managerial Solutions
    The role of a manager seems like an odd one. Why are they here? And by extension, why am I here? What exactly does a manager do? What can they actually do?

2023

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