As 2025 comes to an end (and yes, I can barely believe it’s nearly 2026) it’s worthwhile to reflect on the past year. It’s been a quite a whirlwind. Not only has news and politics been pretty shocking and horrible this year (again!!!) but news about finances in UK HE institutions has been depressing and … Read more
Nelly and I were invited to speak at Kaltura Connect in London today (at the fantastic Science Gallery @KCL). Kaltura is the service we use to provide our own Media Hopper Create service for media storage and streaming. It was a fun day, we got a chance to catch up with a few people we … Read more
I attended the Friday of ALT-C today and I’m glad I did, it was a very interesting and fun day. Some brief highlights from me…. I learned a new term today which I thought was really poignant – ‘lifeload’ – sum of all pressures a student has in their life INCLUDING university – some people … Read more
The numbers have been crunched, the results are in. We’ve had record usage of our lecture recording service by our staff and students this year! We’ve had a whopping 40,160 recordings created since June 2024 and a massive 28,945,731 minutes of lectures watched in the same time frame. Of course, our lecture recording service is … Read more
I wrote a blog post in January 2023 (where did the time go!?!) about the work we’ve been doing on data retention for our services. Work has continued in the background and currently we are almost at the point of: Automating the deletion of courses and users in Learn. Sean has heroically been manually deleting … Read more
When I went to university, we didn’t have lecture recording. To be honest, I’ll admit that when I went to university, the ‘AV kit’ in a room was an overhead projector and a chalk board. I struggled with lectures. They were often boring to my 18 year old self and in some subjects they went … Read more