ELI Spring Focus Session and visit to Duke University - Retro Blog

It's over three weeks since I got back, but the Easter break and busyness with other stuff have got in the way of doing this. You will have to read it bottom to top - as if I really was blogging whilst I was away... I was going to try to do a live-ish blog, but laptop problems stopped me, and I'm not really sure there would have been time

I went on a trip to Raleigh, North Carolina (Brian's home) with Rob Appleyard from Health and Wellbeing. We went to an Educause event - title to follow above - and I'd also arranged to visit Duke University to meet the people who work in their Center for Instructional Technology (CIT).

I've been working with Rob for a few years, and I'm part of his PhD supervisory group - and his work includes looking at how students learn from using 'Immersive Environments' compared to more traditional techniques, so the ELI event was of interest to him. Despite a hatred of flying, he seemed to cope pretty well on the journey over

The journey was pretty smooth really, Manchester to Philadelphia, then a connection to Raleigh/Durham International, where we were greeted with clear skies and sunshine. View from hotel room below: