My favourite event of the year so far has been the IDTX: Evidence Informed Practice Conference 2026. This review has been a long time coming, as I attended back in May. It was my first time at this conference, and also the first time it had run in person.
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My second LN Mastery Day of the year, and this time it was in Birmingham. The day was made up of three workshop; Designing for lasting behaviour change, Product Design for Learning (rapid sprint) and What factors determine learning transfer success. Here are my thoughts about the day.
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In March, I was in Zagreb for ML 2026 and ICEduTech 2026, organised by IADIS. The conferences bring together researchers and practitioners from across the world to share work on mobile learning and educational technology, and this year I was there as a session chair in the mobile learning track.
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We don’t just buy software. We buy the team, the years of testing, the documentation, the support, and the accountability. All of that is baked in before we even open the app. AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate any of that, and I think we need to start talking about what that actually means.
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In March I attended Free Spirits LIVE; an online conference for freelancers and small business owners working in L&D. It was my first time and I’ve got to say, it was brilliant I came away with new ideas, some reassurance and a lot to think about.
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At the end of February, I attended LN Mastery Day: Using Data to Demonstrate Learning Impact in Bristol, organised by The Learning Network. The day brought together learning professionals to explore a question many of us are still trying to answer: how do we show the real value of learning?
I’m seeing more people within different industries experiment with coding. People who would never have described themselves as technical are now building tools and tweaking platforms with surprising confidence. Much of this is down to the phenomenon of vibe coding. But is that actually a good thing?
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Yep, I know it’s February, so I’m a bit late with my year in review post. Looking back, I realised I never actually wrote a 2024 review post, so technically this is very late indeed. But I think I can be forgiven, since I’ve posted more than usual this year. So let’s get to it.
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Following on from my talk earlier this year, the DLI invited me back to present a webinar on mobile apps for digital learning. In this blog post, I reflect on the session and explore how apps can influence learner motivation, confidence, and engagement.
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Illustrator has been part of my toolkit for years, mainly for editing icons and working with vector-based graphics. When I moved away from Acrobat, I began questioning whether Illustrator and Photoshop were still right for me. In this blog post I spill the beans on my move to Affinity Studio.
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