How to teach art: notes from RSA lecture

The two-headed lecture on the topic Is the Art School Dead?, at the RSA this week, was a bit of a curate’s egg. Neither of the speakers — Professor Roger Wilson and Brian Eno — presented a very coherent argument, but they strung suggestions on loose scaffolding. (Eno appeared to be recording himself on mini-disc: […]

Usability of museum web sites

Paul Marty and Michael Twidale’s article A conceptual framework for analyzing the usability flaws of museum web sites is very clearly written and pretty much delivers what its title promises. It reports evaluations of 36 museum web sites (I’m guessing that most, if not all, were for US museums), on the basis of which usability […]

Classifications for tutor support in e-learning

The different pieces of work I’ve done on supporting learners in e-learning over the last year have required different classifications of the tasks and activities involved. Partly the differences are down to the context of learning, and partly they’re down to the purpose of the classification. I’m not aware of much research that analyses tutors’ […]

Managing tutor support for e-learning

Prompted in part by the discussions of supporting learners at the Future of UK E-learning Market event, and partly by some work that Seb Schmoller and I have recently completed for an e-learning provider, here are some boiled-down recommendations for managing e-learning tutors. The term ‘tutor support’ covers a range of practices. In a lot […]

Skills for Online Teaching

Why do resources become more reference-worthy when other people refer to them? I suppose it’s another of those success-breeds-success network effects. So it’s only now that Stephen Downes has seen fit to comment on it, that I get round to referencing a document that Seb Schmoller compiled of contributions from me and other e-learning professionals. […]

LeTTOL wins National Training Award

Congratulations to the Learning to Teach On-Line team for winning a National Training Award last night for the LeTTOL course. I believe this may be the first e-learning course to be awarded an NTA. Having done the course myself in 1998, and worked with some of its main architects since before then, the LeTTOL team […]