Two to one, or one from two, or maybe something new

It’s not a secret, there are plans for a merger of two universities in Adelaide. At the moment we’re in the proposal stage, investigating the viability of the merger and developing a business case for it. From a numbers perspectives, there is a case to be made. Most of these relate to being too small […]

Hiers and Hierarchy

I’ve written about hierarchy a few times and often relate it back to being the default structure. The reason I believe this is because it’s a simple structure. It’s something that can be deployed quickly, works fairly efficiently and it’s something that can be established and refined as you go along. It’s a “good enough” […]

The Complexity of Learning Design

I’ve been thinking about learning design as a profession, the kind of work it is, and what we do, and trying to map it to the domains of the Cynefin Framework. This is to help explain what we do as a team to others in the institution and to look at what structures would support […]

Testing an electric car

Some thoughts on a two-week practical test of an EV – the Polestar 2. A couple of months ago, I test drove the Volvo XC40 Recharge – the company’s first foray into electric vehicles and the only model locally available to test drive. As petrol prices ballooned over the last 12 months, I’ve been seriously […]

2022 – A Wrap

Wow. 2022 was some year! It started with a bang, a crash and lots of swearing as my team and I raced to push out our first fully online undergraduate courses. There was also time to hang out with friends in Victor Harbour, although we’re still waiting for the weather to be good when we’re […]

Design at Scale

I presented Tuesday, 6th December, at Ascilite22 about some of the work I’ve been leading at the University of Adelaide. It was a Pecha Kucha session, so there was not a massive amount of time to go into depth about the work, so I thought I’d put together something to accompany the slides and provide […]

Sand between fingers

I stumbled into Twitter at a unique moment in my career. I’d lived overseas, returned to my small home town and switched careers. I was a couple of years into working in educational technology, and I was at my first tech conference in the US. Twitter had been around, but I wasn’t on it. I […]

The Public Square

The shitstorm that is Elon Musk has hit Twitter. The village idiot got drunk in the town square and started hurling curses and abuse at everyone there. He’s now wondering why everyone is packing up to leave, while he proceeds to turf people out himself and smash everything in sight. Everything that was built in […]

A Learning Design System

Recently I had the pleasure of presenting with one of my team members about some of the work we’ve been doing. It was to a local UX group, Design for Humans, and it was an excellent opportunity to share our work. I’m not going to run through the presentation here, but I did want to […]

Design is Scale

I’ve just been listening to the We Are Open podcast interviewing Brian Alexander. During the discussion Brian talks about the idea of scale and needing to move between the micro through to the meso. This is something I’ve been fascinated in for quite some time and I’ve looking for words and terminologies to kind of […]