Martin King

UK Higher Education VLE Market: 2025 Review — Neil Mosley Consulting An in-depth review of the UK higher education VLE market in 2025, examining market share trends, institutional behaviour, and developments across Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard and Brightspace.

"It’s not difficult, on a daily basis, to stumble across the fetishisation of change, and a kind of performative, addictive enthusiasm for transformation that is often unsubstantive and ill-informed." Amen, Brother.
www.neilmosley.com/blog/uk-high... #VLE #Moodle #Change #DigitalTransformation

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes.

Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates.

Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

Here's what happens when you start AI policy with values, not tools At Royal Holloway, the creation of an AI policy became a moment of profound reflection on institutional ethics and purpose. Lucy Gill-Simmen and Will Will Shüler elaborate

I am proud to have been a part of the Royal Holloway AI Education Policy Working Group. wonkhe.com/blogs/heres-... #genAI #valuesbeforetech #policy

Yes you can. IT's recommendations are not always informed, nuanced or appropriate.

Today I was in a room full of Jews and Muslims when I found out that a gunman had shot up a Jewish event. We all shared the pain together. A Palestinian man from Gaza who happened to have moved here 2 weeks before October 7 expressed his pain at our tragedy. Many of his family members are dead, and many others are in tents now. And still, he stood with us. These moments will be used to divide us. Thats the whole reason they are committed. To tear us all into different factions so one can win and one can lose. Buying into that worldview hands the shooters and bigots a win by creating the world they want. The only actual way to defeat them is to stand firm in building a world of dignity for all. This is what the Palestinian in the room did for us. It is what the Muslim man who risked his life to save Jews did. This is the way to win. This is how we beat those who want a world of division and violence. @eladnehorai

‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough

Nonetheless, it's reassuring that the Chancellor has frozen duty on tiny violins. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #budget2025 #payyourshare

Haha. I didn’t want to tempt fate!

Søren Kierkegaard! Mads Mikkelsen! Hans Christian Andersen! Cnut the Great! Lars Ulrich! Margrethe II! Sandi Toksvig! can you hear me? ... Sandi Toksvig, your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating! #scoden #scotlandmensfootball #worldcup28

Wow! How good is Microsoft Planner? It's Trello on rails. All the functionality I hoped for and more plus deep integration with Teams and Outlook. Great for remote working and team management. planner.cloud.microsoft #Microsoft #Planner #Trello #Teams #remote #WFH

Purple drop-bar single-speed bicycle propped up against a low wall with autumnal leaves scattered on the ground.

Darkside crossover fixie project. Phase 1 complete. Phase 2 involves surviving, and maybe adding bartape #fixie #singlespeed #barnfindbike #branding

ChatGPT - Educators’ guide to multimodal learning & GenAI v1 Helps academic colleagues enhance teaching and assessment through multimodal learning and Generative AI. An MK production.

Based on the recent SEDA publication, Educators’ Guide
to Multimodal Learning and Generative AI, this miniGPT allows users to apply the rich guidance and case studies to their own teaching chatgpt.com/g/g-68f22a26...

Balancing Risks and Benefits of Social Annotation in Learning Explore the benefits and risks of social annotation in online learning, emphasizing engagement, connection, and responsible behavior among students.

Social annotation activities and learner behaviour elearningroyalholloway.blog/2025/10/29/s... #elearning #TEL #sociallearning #socialannotation #inclusivity #Talis

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It's the Learning Technology Greatest Hits Tour 2025! Current setlist is:

1. Upoading Turnitin Rubrics
2. Deleting, fixing broken & reuploading Turnitin Rubrics
3. Restoring courses from 21/22
4. Wrestling with Moodle Flexible Sessions
5. Wondering why you would use H2 throughout a Moodle course

Let's say my colleagues, David and Adeola, who are beginning their CMALT journey. You cannot overestimate the value of a local learning community. Also, all those that offer their time and expertise at CMALT Assessors ;)

It is probably more of a resilance thing, so I remind myself that I am there for a reason; my own perceived expertise. The main strategy is to L I S T E N and L E A R N, and apply what I gain from that.

...and to answer the question my work is heavily influenced by legislation and policy, especially around accessibility. Copyright was previously the elephant in the room.

This can look like the trickiest area but it can act as a trigger to reflect on your interaction with legislation and policy, and build upon it. In my case it led me to volunteer to lead and write up our insitutional Ally policy - see my response to Q1 about lenses!

Is there anyone else at your institution with whom you could buddy up with?

Thank you! The online course is particualrly useful

More of a me problem, but indecsion, procrastination and perfectionism are the main challenges. CMALT is incredibly broad and flexible - reflecting the diversity of related roles - so I am often overcome with choice :)

Many reasons: 1) A chance to collate and reflect on my work, 2) it provides a lens through which to view and enhance future projects, 3) to demonstrate commitment to my profession, 4) to engage with ALT, 5) to develop the skills of my team.

2 & 5 are the most relevant to my professional goals

Martin King. Senior Learning Technologist. Currently encouraging and supporting my team as they begin their CMALT journey. Oh, and finally getting my own portfolio together....

ChatGPT image generation: What’s changed and why it matters - Artificial intelligence OpenAI have built their most advanced image generator yet into GPT-4o, which ‘excels at accurately rendering text, precisely following prompts, and leveraging 4o’s inherence knowledge base and chat co...

A new blog post from my colleague Catherine Barker. Well worth reading, especially to see the striking fashion images that it can create and how they compare to those possible when we did our image generation pilots just a few months ago.

nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/04/0...

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Ancient Greek ruins with weathered stone foundations and columns standing tall against a bright blue sky

One from the 2023 archive. The Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion

We have arrived.

We are currently working on: Gen AI literacy & TEL UX survey

Intranet: intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/staff/teachi...

Blog: elearningroyalholloway.blog

#TEL #Moodle #Ally #Panopto #Turnitin #Vevox #MSOffice #CoPilot #LearningDesign #UX #EDI #CPD #HE #Teaching #Learning #Assessment

Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated What happens when you minimize the chance of data leakage?

Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #artificialintelligence

See you there? How bad content came to be bad www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2025/... #UX

I have updated the Royal Holloway Starter Pack. Get involved!
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