​This page contains examples of some of the enquiry-based blended learning teaching approaches I have used  over the years. By sharing these learning designs and underlying research, I hope you will share your experiences too.
To Look or Not To Look? Facebook use & ethics in social work
This page contains videos that demonstrate how you can use triggers to teaching about social media ethics in professional education. The materials used here are all based on published research (2023).
360-degree immersive apps for research dissemination
This page outlines how I created a set of immersive apps to disseminate research around child protection practices in social work (2023).
Code to embed a short video
On this page is video I explain how you can use HTML code to embed a YouTube short video into a webpage (2023).
Using short videos to enhance student learning
The video on this page shows you how you can use short videos of less than 60 seconds to enhance students learning experiences. I spell out a number of ways you can use short videos within your teaching/training approaches (2023).
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approaches
This page contains 5 short videos (less than 60 seconds) that you can embed into your teaching/training/personal development to introduce aspects of the CBT approach (2023).
Solution focused approaches
This page contains 7 short videos (less than 60 seconds) that you can embed into your teaching/training/personal development to learn about Solution Focused Approaches (2023).
Facebook: an unethical practice or an effective tool in child protection?
This page links to an open access article that explores how Facebook is used in some child protection settings. A video to trigger discussion of some of the issues raised is also provided (2019)​.
Using social media to connect social work students internationally
​This page provides background to an international collaboration between students using Facebook and a Social Work Social Media app to help them explore the ethics of social media use (2015/16).
Combining Facebook and enquiry-based blended learning to teach social media skills
This account contains the rationale to a 7-minute film outlining how Facebook and an enquiry-based blended learning design were combined to help students develop professional social media practices (2013).
Feedback from Changing the Learning Landscape Event
This page illustrates some of the practical uses of social media in social work and social policy teaching and research. A video is presented based on the experiences of participants at an event held at Birmingham University, UK on April 19th 2013.
Designing for enquiry-based blended learning (DiBL)
Academics tend to teach the way they were taught. This page outlines how colleagues were exposed to an enquiry-based approach to help them learn how to create blended learning designs (2011).
Developing reflective analysis in students
This page outlines how lecture capture was used as part of an enquiry-based blended learning design to develop reflective analysis skills in social work students (2010).
Using Enquiry-based Blended Learning to teach Child Protection
This page outlines a blended learning approach used at Birmingham to teach social work students about child protection processes (2008).