D'Arcy Norman, portrait photoI work in teaching and learning at the University of Calgary, where I’ve spent most of the last three decades thinking about how institutions adopt and use learning platforms. My PhD used video game design as a way of understanding how courses are structured, which turned out to be more useful than it sounds. I write here about edtech, digital transformation, photography, and whatever I’m currently building or reading.

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2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report - Teaching and Learning Edition

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report - Teaching and Learning Edition was just released. I had the opportunity to serve on the “global panel of experts” that brainstormed topics and examples to shape this year’s report. The brainstorming …

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  1. on monocultures, institutional agency, and resilience

    Canvas was hacked this week (starting around May 1, so over a week ago now). No details yet, and I’m not going to speculate or make assumptions. My heart goes out to the …

  2. Introducing Jellyboard: A Collaborative Sticky-Note Board for Workshops

    When Google retired Jamboard, a lot of facilitators lost the tool they’d been quietly relying on. It wasn’t fancy. It just worked in a room full of phones, laptops, and …

  3. 2026 UCalgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning & Teaching

    This was the 10th annual University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, and it had the highest attendance for an in-person offering of the conference. The …

  4. prototyping interactive online content with claude design

    After creating a simple “design system” using UCalgary’s Brand resources, I uploaded a blog post, 2 ppt files, and a word doc with some links to Claude’s …

  5. digital transformation is a teaching and learning opportunity

    Reposting the UCalgary News post I wrote for our TI Newsletter: Digital Transformation (Dx) in higher education has largely been framed as an organizational and IT challenge: …

  6. How I built the Typeset custom theme for this website

    I’ve been running this site on Hugo for several years now, and for most of that time I used other people’s themes and tweaked things around the edges. A few months ago, …

  7. DICE in Practice: Adopting Generative AI Guidelines

    The scenario A mid-sized research university is developing its institutional response to generative AI. There is no single “AI project” - instead, there are dozens of …

  8. Introducing the DICE Framework for Higher Ed Change Leadership

    Leading change in a university involves many kinds of participation at once. In any given week, the same person might chair a committee with real decision-making authority, serve …

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