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Glyn Rogers
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Subject specialist for Digital Leadership and Culture at Jisc. Former teacher with a passion for teaching and learning and Technology Enhanced Learning. Siarad Cymraeg.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/contact/staff/glyn-rogers
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Are you the glue holding things together?
Every organisation has people who make collaboration work, but their effort often goes unseen.
My latest Jisc blog explores why this “glue work” matters. #Collaboration #Community #Leadership
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Are You the Glue Holding Things Together? - Digital leadership and culture forum
Learn why recognising glue work in digital transformation is vital for digital leaders driving change in colleges and universities.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Remembering those who lost their lives in the Aberfan disaster 59 years ago on this day.
#Aberfan
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A battered clock from the school in Aberfan that was struck by the coal slurry. The clock hands have stopped at the time the slurry struck the school.
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Hopefully see you at #ALTC25 in Glasgow on Friday. Do drop-in to my workshop with University of Exeter's Steph Comley 'From Dreams to Reality: piloting digital learning tools'. We beginning to build digital learning tool piloting framework and need your help :-) altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2025/10...
Piloting learning technologies: from dreams to reality
Piloting. Proof of concept. “Let’s use this new tool.” The way learning technologies are introduced to colleges and universities varies. Sometimes pilots are undertaken, other times a learning tool…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Alfie enjoying Autumn 🍂🍁
Alfie the brown Cavapoo surrounded by fallen autumn leaves.
October 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Looking back on a year of digital leadership conversations in HE and FE, and how our community forum is capturing what we’ve learned together.
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From AI to Wellbeing: What a Year of Digital Leadership Conversations Reveals - Digital leadership and culture forum
Emerging themes from our digital leadership and culture drop-ins, from AI and strategy to wellbeing and inclusion.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Making the most of the Autumn sunshine this morning 🍁at Cwm Darran. Caught a glimpse of a heron fishing too
Spider web in the sunshine Heron flying low in a wood A view of Cwm Darran with the sun low and fog at the bottom of the valley. Alfie, a cavapoo dog, posing in the foreground of a view of Cwm Darran on a sunny morning
September 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I've just read this #Digital #Leadership #Culture
wonkhe.bsky.social Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Sep 28
Last week on Wonkhe: Universities run on heritage, tacit understandings and institutional memory. Kurt Barling explains why this means the sector must take control of how AI is designed and deployed
Generic AI cannot capture higher education’s unwritten rules
Universities run on heritage, tacit understandings and institutional memory. Kurt Barling explains why this means the sector must take control of how AI is designed and deployed Universities run on heritage,...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Diddorol! #Cymraeg
BBC News - Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED - BBC News
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Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED
Fin Gough and Sioned Cray's saying poody confused producers but is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I've been using my version of the Pomodoro technique this week to help me focus, or as my daughter would say, "lock in".
September 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Good to get #outdoors to Cwm Darran with Alfie (our Cavapoo) after all the rain we've had. #Wellbeing
Cwm Darran Lake on a cloudy day. Alfie, a cavapoo, is in the foreground. A tree lined path leads to the distance. Alfie the cavapoo is walking down the path in the foreground.
September 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Enjoying a rainy day in #Cardiff #Cardiffmarket #Arcades #Museum #Mammoth
Castle Arcade in Cardiff. People are sat at small round tables lining the arcade. Ffwrnes pizza oven with "joio byw bois bach" written in orange neon on the walls behind. A daal meal in the street food restaurant on the first floor of Cardiff market. A profile view of a skeleton of a mammoth.
September 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In my latest blog, I share why Communities of Practice matter and how we’re experimenting with new ways to share community knowledge in our forum.
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#HigherEd
#FurtherEducation
#CommunitiesOfPractice
#DigitalLeadership
Why Communities Matter in Digital Leadership - Digital leadership and culture forum
Discover how Communities of Practice support digital leadership, foster collaboration, and generate shared knowledge across education.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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However, Sgwd yr Eira is more dramatic and you can walk behind it!
September 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Here's Sgwd y Pannwr which might be my favourite...
September 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Last weekend, I got to walk the 4 falls trail in the Brecon Beacons. Spectacular! Loved it 😍
Sgwd yr Eira waterfall Sgwd yr Eira waterfall from a distance. Swg y pannwr isaf waterfall. Sgwd y Pannwr waterfall
September 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Blog post: we've been looking at cooperation and collaboration between departments to help with digital change. Here's my latest update (including my favourite bridge) inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/b...
Building bridges - working together across departments
Effective digital transformation requires colleagues from right across a college to come together. How can IT and teaching teams work together more effectively?
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September 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I love this kind of article. A makeshift #accessibility workaround creates 'urban geology'. Now I know what 'tactical urbanism' means.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 13
Bodega ramps are all over New York City. The humble, concrete blobs ease entry into delis and other stores — and affirm the civic compact. nyti.ms/3UnFivI
August 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I’ve been reflecting on how setting targets in digital projects can sometimes create perverse, unintended incentives.

Well-meaning targets can end up working against the outcomes they were meant to support. I've written more here in a short blog: digitalleadership.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/06/0...
How can we avoid the cobra effect in digital leadership? - Digital leadership and culture forum
Learn how to avoid the cobra effect in digital leadership and set targets that drive real progress.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I've been part of a project exploring how digital, teaching, IT and support teams work together in #FE.
Here are some early reflections and a few imagined scenarios based on what we’ve heard and seen.
Do any of these resonate with your context?
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Building Better Collaboration: What We’re Learning in FE - Digital leadership and culture forum
Reflections on improving collaboration across teams in Further Education.
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June 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I've just read this.
April 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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I attended Digital Universities UK for the first time this year. Here are my reflections on the sessions I attended. Reasons for optimism?
#DUUK25
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Reasons for optimism: Reflections on Digital Universities UK, 2025 - Digital leadership and culture forum
Reflections on digital transformation from the Digital Universities UK 2025 conference.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I'm looking forward to attending my first Digital Universities UK event this year as a delegate.
#THEDigitalUK
March 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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From inspiring keynotes to buzzing community sessions, the Digital Leadership and Culture Team agree that @jisc.bsky.social Digifest25 was the best yet. In my latest blog, we share our highlights. Read more here:
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Reflections on Digifest25 – The Digital Leadership and Culture Team Share Their Highlights - Digital leadership and culture forum
Highlights from Digifest25. Digital Leadership and Culture Programme members reflect on key moments and inspiring sessions
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March 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Next up, Lucy-ann Pickering and Mike Teddy from the University of South Wales talk through their XR project. Mike begins with his use of 'the logic train' as a template to tackle problems.
#WalesXR
#WalesXRCommunity
A picture of a PowerPoint slide that outlines the logic train: What is the problem area? Why is it important? How have others tried to solve the problems? Why have they failed? What is the proposed solution? How will we go about it? What is our other measure of success?
March 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM