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Category Archives: University
Lurkers
I lurk There, I’ve said it out loud. There are times that, for various reasons, I read conversations and watch what is going on without visibly participating. Does that make me a bad person, or is my behaviour an entirely … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching, University
Tagged lurk. lurker, lurking
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If trees could talk
I walk past this tree every day on the way to my office. In the early morning the quad is quiet, with maybe a crow hopping across the grass or a cleaner scurrying about between the buildings. Later in the … Continue reading
Posted in DailyCreate, DS106, Photos, Scotland, University
Tagged #tdc2346, Glasgow University, tree
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Academibot
Today’s Daily Create was inspired by a TED talk I watched the other day. Here’s my take on a useful robot 🙂 *Disclaimer – my job is really not this bad
Posted in Academia, DailyCreate, DS106, Teaching, University
Tagged #DS106, #tdc2320, academia, Daily Create
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Be More Kind
A timely earworm for me this week as I am marking philosophy exam scripts. The lyrics are actually about our broken society, but the title of the song speaks to me as I try to decipher scrawly handwriting and make … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Feedback, Learning, Teaching, University
Tagged exams, Frank Turner, kindness, marking
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Generating assessment principles
What make a good assessment principle? Not unsurprisingly, I’ve been looking at David Nicol’s answers to this question. Here’s my representation of his answer to the question which I have taken from a 2007 keynote talk he gave – I’m … Continue reading
Posted in ASBS, Assessment, Feedback, Learning, Online learning, University
Tagged ASBS, assessment, feedback, HE
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Secondment
I’ve been dying to shout this out loud, and now I can. As my Facebook friends will know, on March 1st I take up a two year secondment to our Adam Smith Business School as a Teaching Fellow working with … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, University
Tagged business school, research, secondment
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Cargo Cults
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I think that’s probably true of many things and not just limited to technology – that many things that others do look like magic from the outside. … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Capitalism, Critical pedagogy, DS106, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Rhizomes, Social Media, Teaching, Technology, University
Tagged #clmooc, #DS!06, cargo cult, cMOOC, Feynman, xMOOC
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Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions
I’m giving a paper at the SocMedHE conference at Sheffield Hallam this Tuesday called Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions in a Participatory Culture: recent findings and implications for Higher Education. It’s based on some of the findings from my PhD research … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Social Media, Teaching, University
Tagged #clmooc, affinity space, Community of Practice, CoP, serendipity
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Ticky-tacky feedback
I’ve had two things on my mind this week – the first is the amazing cover of Little Boxes by Walk off the Earth: (this is a serious earworm – catchy tune and lyrics which are political satire as relevant … Continue reading
Learning and Meaning
I rewatched a superb TedX talk yesterday by Tesia Marshik called Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection. She talks about the myth of learning styles and the danger of believing in them, and it’s a powerful and persuasive critique. What … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching, University
Tagged assessment, Assessment and Feedback, feedback, meaning
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