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Category Archives: Teaching
Appreciative students
I had a lovely chat with some of my students last week. It was a usual level 1 philosophy seminar and I’d put them into groups of 2-3 to go through some Rousseau quotes together and decide what to make … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, University
Tagged jigsaw learning, peer interaction, peer learning
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When the student is ready …
There’s a saying that is (apparently) falsely attributed to Buddha, which says that: I was reminded of that during the latest #MoocMooc chat when Mark said that: @Jessifer@jasoncummings1@NomadWarMachine@yishaym@slamteacher Much f2f is about control / design online to lose control #moocmooc … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Online learning, Teaching
Tagged Buddha, learning, scaffolding, Vygotsky
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In defence of the VLE
It’s easy to bash the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). I’m not going to pretend that it is a universal panacea for online or blended learning, but it is not as bad as some folk make out. I think it’s easy to forget just … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Online learning, Teaching, Technology
Tagged #moocmooc, Moodle, online learning, VLE
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Creating an alternative CV
This November I’m going to be co-facilitating Digital Writing Month (#DigiWriMo) with Maha Bali and Kevin Hodgson. We thought that a fun way to lead into this would be to suggest that folk create an alternative CV. As a way … Continue reading
Posted in #DigiWriMo, knitting, Learning, MOOC, Music, Online learning, Teaching, Technology
Tagged #DigiWriMo, Cornwall, daleks, knitting, music, singing. uke, ukulele
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Making an ass out of you and me
In his History of Animals, Aristotle asserts that: Males have more teeth than females in the case of men, sheep, goats, and swine. History of Animals 2, 3 One wonders why he did not conduct an empirical study before making this … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Twisted Pair, University
Tagged #twistedpair, Aristotle, assumptions, Chicken Licken
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Gonnay no dae that
I’m keeping half an eye on Chrissi Neranzi’s Creativity for Learning in HE, which started for real this week. The first activity for this week is to: Select a few objects from home/your office you would normally never use in your teaching. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Teaching, University
Tagged Chewin the Fat, Creativity for learning, Gonnay no dae that
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What’s the point of feedback?
I recently had a conversation with some other academics about the whole marking, assessment and feedback parade that we go through in HE, and the NSS student survey results, which always score lower for feedback than for other areas. We … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Teaching, Technology, University
Tagged feedback, NSS
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Vicarious learning
If we think that tutorials and seminars are an important part of the campus based learning experience, then how to we replace these when we are designing and delivering online courses? One way might be to use virtual classroom software … Continue reading
WYSIWYG
There’s a new challenge going around – watch a short video and write a bog post tying what you have seen into something about education. So Whitney sent me this one about the Landfill Harmonic, who make musical instruments out … Continue reading