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I’ve been doing a lot of reading about complexity theory recently. There are different terms used when discussing complexity – I’ve heard complexity thinking, complexity theory and complexity pedagogy – but, at the broadest possible level, they are all roughly similar. It’s an idea borrowed from the physical sciences and especially systems thinking, to try…

I’ve been doing an online course through Lynda.com all about Instructional Design. In fact ,it’s a collection of courses – I think Lynda calls them a Learning Path. I’m doing them because some of the work that I’m doing at UTS is very much of the learning design mould, and I thought the course might…

One of the things that we’re (rightly) proud of at my union is the level of service we provide members when they ring seeking assistance. I don’t have a lot of experience with other unions, but, from what I do know, it does seem like we do a good job. And there is plenty to…

This rather poetically named blog post is about the kind of things that I learned through doing my PhD. I’ve gone with the title above, rather than something rather more prosaic, because, the Ph D is so often characterised as a journey, and this made sense to me – when you set out on a…

I’m writing a few posts here about finishing my PhD studies; it’s probably appropriate that I try to put down some thoughts after coming to the end of such a journey – and, in typically academic fashion, I think that writing is thinking. Something that I’ve been reflecting on lately is the notion of timing….

So, I had my graduation ceremony on Tuesday, 9th October 2018. It was a great event – held at UTS in the Great Hall (which, to be honest, I’ve always thought is a little too small to be called the Great Hall), with the Occasional Address delivered by Stan Grant, who spoke about the challenges…

This was a draft based on my work as an LTA in FASS. The UTS Online Renovation Project in FASS A rising tide lifts all boats The title of this blog is a reference to the well known aphorism ‘a rising tide lifts all boats.’ Although it is usually deployed in an economic sense, it…

I recently presented a paper at a conference held at Deakin University in Melbourne. It was, and I was clear about it, a bit of a stretch for me. While I would have felt reasonably confident discussing civics and citizenship education, this conference had more of a bent towards ethnography and education. Still, in the…

I’ve been doing a lot of learning design work for one of the university’s journalism, media and communications faculties. I’m specifically not stating the name of the university for reasons of privacy; it’s not particularly relevant to what I am going to discuss. The reason I’ve started off like this is that I’ve come to…

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