Going back to 2020, when I did more elearning hero challenges without using Articulate products (the InArticulate eLearning Hero series), I touched on some examples of using tabs in elearning: Using Tabs Interactions in E-Learning (2020) #272 Using Tabs Interactions in E-Learning Revisited I have a current use case where I need to show users […]
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A New Cross-Canada Instructional Design/Online Learning Community
So the episode name is actually, Dave Cormier Gets COLD, the latest episode of Terry Greene’s Gettin’ Air Podcast. I think it’s the first new episode in awhile (or that I’ve caught at least) – NICE Terry! They lead in with a bit of Dave’s current work; recent book, his role at TRU, kids driving, […]
Yes, You Can Add H5P to Rise360 – Here’s How
I have a habit of jamming H5P into projects. Mostly that’s because when it comes to elearning authoring tools, it’s my favourite. Overall it blends portability, ease-of-use, and functionality in a balanced way. For example, sure you can make an interactive video using Storyline, but H5P makes it much faster, simpler, and easily replicable. Unfortunately […]
staff satisfaction in 2025
The Staff Engagement Survey’s latest iteration was run in February-March 2025. I am pleased that Learning, Teaching and Web (LTW) had a survey response rate of 77%, higher than in 2023 (63%). This is also a much better response rate than the overall University (42%), and higher than ISG as a whole (75%). Overall, the …
Just a QR Code
There was a period of time that link shorteners were the thing – think Google URL Shortener (RIP like so many Google things), and bit.ly – and as I recall, QR codes were rising at that time as well. Back then, before seemingly everyone had a computer with a camera in their pocket, I wondered […]
Open for Good: Strategic support for OER at the University of Edinburgh (UKSG OER online seminar 2025)
Many thanks to Klara Finnimore and Vicky Drew from UKSG for inviting the University of Edinburgh’s OER Service to speak on our experiences of sustainable strategic support for OER at their UKSG OER Online Seminar 2025. Below are the slides and transcript of the presentation. Presentation created by Lorna M. Campbell and Stephanie Charlie Farley. … Continue reading Open for Good: Strategic support for OER at the University of Edinburgh (UKSG OER online seminar 2025)
revisiting playful engagement
You may have seen a recent WonkHE article about playful leadership The case for playful leadership | Wonkhe It announces a new research project called Re:PLAY * and I am pleased to say that ISG University of Edinburgh is a partner in this research. It was interesting to me that when the ISG directors had …
Re-Opening the Eleanor Ormerod Room
I was very pleased to add another space named for inspirational women in STEM to our collection. Celebrating the re-opening of the Eleanor Ormerod Training room in the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library was fairly simple since Eleanor’s info board was already in this room, The LST team have refitted the room and installed lovely …
nice weather for ducks
On some of the hottest days of the year this week, I ventured southwards for two conferences, both featuring birds and both styled in hot pink. EchoExperience25 at the University of Nottingham https://info.echo360.com/attendee-hub-echoexperience-emea and UCISA Women in Technology in Liverpool WiT25 – UCISA At WiT Katie and I spoke about what works in our …
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-04-20
I ran into this on Bionic Teaching and thought it was worth making note of. There are lots of resources out there for web accessibility, and it’s something I talk to people about from time to time. I’m grateful for the course W3C put together and the course I took at UAlberta. I make use…
A Field Guide to Working in Higher Education
I am pleased to get my hands of a copy of this new book A Field Guide to Working in Higher Education The book is designed to support new lecturers who are joining HE from a background in a professional area or career rather than a career in academia. These new teachers draw on different …
how does your garden grow online?
I was delighted to be invited as to National College of Ireland to speak as part of their ‘Assuring Quality in Fully Online Programme Delivery’ event last week. A lovely excuse to visit Dublin again. I chose a gardening theme which enabled me to talk about the time it takes to grow online learning and …