New journal paper published with @ellatasm.bsky.social and our colleages at Edinburgh Napier University: 'What training do workplace mentors receive to support degree apprentices? An activity theory analysis, focusing on inclusion'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I haven't had a Mac since System 7 but is a modern Mac a good alternative if you just want stuff to *work*? I love the idea of Linux in principle but life is too short. Windows 11 can't even reliably copy and paste anymore. Time to ditch it.
Thank you to guest editors Hanna Volkova and Alla Shuhai from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and our UK-based colleagues @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social and @kath-eliza.bsky.social for their contributions.
We just published our Ukranian special issue of @osotl.bsky.social: osotl.org/osotl/issue/...
Subtitled 'Tempus fugit, Academia sempiterna' ('time passes, but the academy is eternal'), this was a collaboration with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA).
We'll also hear from an impressive array of industry representatives, education professionals, and inspiring apprentices. Full details are available on the website.
I'm delighted to be chairing the Holyrood Insight Future of Apprenticeships Scotland Conference next week, with keynotes from Ben Macpherson MSP, Minister for Higher and Further Education, and Michelle Thomson MSP.
www.holyroodinsight.com/conferences-...
The underlying papers were co-authored with @uofgcompsci.bsky.social colleagues @oanamandrei.bsky.social, @waqarnabi.bsky.social, and Alistair Morrison.
Just published a blog post on the Advance HE website, drawing on our research into how Graduate Apprentices develop an impressive range of professional skills.
advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
Dr Matthew Barr of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science, director of the Ada Scotland Festival, meets young women at an event during the 2024 festival
The Ada Scotland Festival, which aims to shift the gender balance of Scotland’s computing sector, is set to return with more than 20 events aimed at young women and non-binary people across the country from September 29.
Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Our UofG Colleagues Peter Sneddon, Erin Ferguson, Eric Yao share: Why do students decide to stop studying physics?
#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No1_22 #physics #motivation osotl.org/osotl/articl...
We continue our oSoTL summer with Sarah Honeychurch's: Pragmatism in practice: Bricolage as a methodological framework for SoTL
#oSoTLSummer #SoTL #AcWri #highered #Vol2No2_22 #SpecialEdition #bricolage osotl.org/osotl/articl...
Hybrid talk at Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'
An early start this morning to deliver my talk at the hybrid Computing Education Practice in Pakistan (PkCEP): 'Delivering a Work-Based Learning Degree Programme in Software Engineering: Lessons from Practice'. Thank you to the organsiers (including @waqarnabi.bsky.social) for the invitation!
This is awful 😞
It's hard to believe this is real. Jesus.
New journal article: 'From disciplinary enthusiasm to soulless tasks: norms behind computing educators' emotion display' with @vgrande.bsky.social, Päivi Kinnunen, Anne-Kathrin Peters, @mihaelasabin.bsky.social, Matilde Sánchez-Peña, and Ethel Tshukudu: doi.org/10.1080/0304...
Ha ha, Apple say I need to phone them to get it fixed. The world's biggest tech company needs me to use a telephone to get their streaming service working in 2025!
Same goes for the #Murderbot finale. And we wonder why people choose piracy over legit options?
The Apple TV+ app for Android is the worst streaming app I've ever used. Shockingly poor piece of software that prevents me from watching the content I've paid for. All the hype around the return of #Foundation and I can't even watch it!
@ant-workshop.com have an incredible Ruin Remix Update for Into the Restless Ruins! Guided entirely by the amazing player feedback.
➕ New Remix Levels Unlocked
🐺 Harvest Maiden & Wulver Updates
📿 Brand new room cards, charms, boons & trinkets!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/287...
Very much enjoying this on PS5!
store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...
We covered a lot of work in a short space of time, including our paper on video games and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic (doi.org/10.1177/1555...) and various work on using games to develop graduate skills (e.g. doi.org/10.1016/j.co... and doi.org/10.1007/978-...).
Me playing Zelda circa 1990. I look very cool.
Thanks to the @advancehe.bsky.social team for the opportunity to speak at the Mental Health in Higher Education conference yesterday.
I failed to take any photos so here's a peek at my slides, featuring a very flattering photo of me playing the original Zelda circa 1990.
Lovely people, inspiring speakers, and great ideas. Our students share their experience of this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium. blogs.napier.ac.uk/womenintotec...
Excellent article on this year's BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social in the latest issue of the BCS @wearebcs.bsky.social IT NOW magazine:
www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
Lovely to hear from Joanna Jardine, one of our @uofgcompsci.bsky.social Graduate Apprentices!
"All those people who look like they've got it sorted? They don't." We are all still inventing ourselves. Great start to the keynote from Sharon Moore.
The @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social colloquium finally comes to Glasgow! www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...
a map showing the route from Kelvinbridge subway to the Glasgow University Union
Our conference tomorrow - no tickets left, sorry, we're full - is in GUU. Attendees coming by public transport should go to KELVINBRIDGE subway and head up the Great Western Road, then turn left on to Bank Street. Detailed directions + pics follow...
