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John Brindle (He/Him)

@johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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Learning Design Manager, PhD Student, Guitarist, and Singer. My favourite things are inclusive practice, miserable singer songwriters, and a good chinwag

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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@puiyin.bsky.social and I won a thing (CATE 2026) for #telresearchers and #heresearchers Puiyin as Team Lead and me as Deputy - also pictured is Alice who helped make it happen at Lancaster Uni!
A picture of three people, Alice is on the left, Puiyin is in the middle holding a CATE certificate and I am on the right. We are stood on the stage for the Advance HE CATE and NTF awards.
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q6 - How can open practices help turn individual curiosity into shared learning and community? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q5 - What helps you feel able to move from listening quietly to actively contributing in a learning community? Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q4 - Which of the four C’s — Consuming, Creating, Connecting, or Contributing — feels most natural to you, and which would you like to develop further? Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q3 - What role has your personal learning network played in helping you learn, reflect, or grow? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q2 - How has informal learning shaped your professional development compared with more formal CPD opportunities? Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q1 - What questions or interests first sparked your curiosity in learning, teaching, or research? Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @puiyin.bsky.social @johnbrindletel.bsky.social
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is today! Looking forward to it ☺️
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for #LTHEchat which will explore curiosity driven informal learning with @puiyin.bsky.social and @johnbrindletel.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/05/18/l...
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LTHEchat 365: From Curiosity to Community
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 20th May at 8pm BST with guests Puiyin Wong (@puiyin.bsky.social) and John Brindle (@johnbrindletel.bsky.social) to discuss how curiosity-driven conver…
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Looking forward to this!
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
With my PhD bestie and pea in a pod @puiyin.bsky.social - attending the @jisc.bsky.social Student Experience Experts group meeting - some awesome talks and activities around TNE so far - looking forward to a great afternoon!
A picture of me with Puiyin Wong in front of the giant bull in Birmingham New Street station
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I haven’t shot, graded and edited video footage for such a long time - this was an idea I had for my band’s video that I was able to run with, it bought the joy of video production back. Shot in #anamorphic on a #fujifilm xh2s - graded and edited in DaVinci resolve
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Best quote so far from #duuk “Data is like chips, you always want more but it’s not necessarily good for you. Now I want chips, I’m hungry, it’s lunchtime”
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is my second post on Programme design. Here I talk about Safe Spaces. Happy to discuss more with anybody interested!
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Creating Safe Spaces in Programme Design Workshops
"All the information I got from the other departments is gold" - workshop attendee In this post I'm going to explore the first stage of a five stage process that I use within a programme design workshop a lot of this work is based on Gilly Salmon's 'Carpe Diem' approach. I'd encourage you to read my other article on the '
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I love this human 🥰
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I don't really enjoy writing blog posts, but this is the first of two discussing programme level design. It's mostly opinion, definitely not the best writing but hopefully you get the gist.
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3 Essential Principles for Programme Design
I recently delivered a CPD talk for the Association for Learning Technology, in it I discussed approaches to programme-level design. I thought it would be good to put together some further ideas around what I discussed so people have something they can reference. This is the first of two posts, in this post I cover some of the justification for an approach to programme design, in the second I'll outline tools and techniques that can be used to explore a programme with stakeholders.
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
@altuk.bsky.social members! I'll be running a lunchtime #cpd workshop on the 12th February 2025. It's on the topic of programme level design approaches. You can sign up here - www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/even...
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CPD Webinar Series 2025: Approaches to programme-level design | Association for Learning Technology
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Having a walk before I head over to @jisc.bsky.social for the beyond blended pilot launch - @puiyin.bsky.social dared me for this selfie 🤣
A photograph of me in front of Big Ben
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
It’s about flipping time … www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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DfE to stop grading English schools based on proportion of Russell Group students
Updated accountability measures aim to encourage school leavers towards wider range of institutions and vocational options
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Started recording the second Bobhowla album today - intense piano playing from me - took until it was dark and there was a nice glow I. The studio to get the right vibe - tomorrow - guitar guitar guitar!
A photograph of me sat behind a piano in a large studio, there’s a guitar pedalboard in the foreground - the studio is bright!
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Working for a university - students pushing a giant inflatable lobster, chanting “lobster lobster lobster” - nobody knows why … I love it 🤣
A photograph through a window of a giant inflatable lobster on a trolly being followed by a group of students.
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
As a follow up to my #altc24 workshop I have now published our programme design presentation on the NTR for open access. A workshop manual is on the way once I've finished my SCMALT application! doi.org/10.25416/NTR...
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Edge Hill Programme Design Process
this presentation shows some of the process of programme design for Online and Blended postgraduate programmes at Edge Hill University. Linking to the Taught Degrees Framework and utilising approaches...
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Today and tomorrow will be spent mostly polishing off my #SCMALT submission (at last) to try and meet the impending deadline any tips? #altc24 - I’m then going to try and meet the institutional deadline of December for SFHEA (again, about time)
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Don’t you just love post-conference “sorry we missed you” marketing emails
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
While not perfect, I am impressed with the updates to UDL, now version 3.0, taking a more intersectional approach to inclusive practice, something that my research is finding missing in day-to-day approaches to Inclusivity. We just need a better UKHE research base. udlguidelines.cast.org
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The UDL Guidelines
The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into ho...
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Fawn saying we should be excited about accessibility - it should be a “cyberpunk futuristic thing” with the possibilities - love this way of thinking #ALTC24
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ALTUK.bsky.social @altuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Fawn - ChatGPT is more patient with me than a neurotypical person. #ALTc24
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Fawn telling us that AI is more patient than a neurotypical person when paraphrasing for understanding by neurodivergent students. #ALTc24
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
“Radical pedagogy must insist that everyone’s presence is acknowledged…There must be an ongoing recognition that everyone influences the classroom dynamic, that everyone contributes” (bell hooks, 2014)
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Piers Wilkinson emphasising the need for openness and conversation about how physical and digital accessibility go hand in hand. Saying we need to acknowledge limitations and identify where the issues are with disabled students. #ALTC24
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
thanks for those who attended my #ALTC24 session yesterday, people were asking about the opening activity, here is the fo=ull activity that I adapted for the session - onehe.org/eu-activity/...
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Surrealist Free Drawing Introductions – OneHE
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
My team have just been featured in the latest JISC briefing paper, page five, I’m quoted from an interview I did but it took a massive collaborative effort from all sorts of services across the institution to make this piece of work happen. Read more here - repository.jisc.ac.uk/9678/1/ISDX-...
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Great first day at #ALTC24 - saw some brilliant people and some amazing, critical, thought-provoking talks. Excited to see what tomorrow brings!
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
A bit of pre #ALTC24 climbing - heading over to Manchester in a few hours - I’m going to be aching!
A photograph of me on an indoor climbing wall - halfway up the wall
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Next week I’ll be running a session on how we approach programme level design at Edge Hill through a Critical Digital Pedagogy lens - expect drawing and conversations! #ALTC24
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John Brindle (He/Him) @johnbrindletel.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Hello, I've moved here for #altc fun. Looking forward to connecting with you all. Tagging @puiyin.bsky.social so she knows I'm here :-)
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