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Category Archives: University
Schwarmdummheit
I expect that, like me, you’re familiar with the wisdom of the crowd – but have you heard of it’s opposite? Until recently I hadn’t. Glancing through tweets the other day I came across this tweet from Ron: @sensor63 @jennymackness Ever heard … Continue reading
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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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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When is a pilot not a pilot?
Recently we’ve been running some software pilots in our unit. Although I am sure that some folk in our Uni think that we are unnecessarily risk averse with regard to core systems such as Moodle (“it’s just a line of … Continue reading
Posted in Online learning, Technology, University
Tagged learning technology, ostriches, software, software pilot
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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
Introducing the swarm
I used to refer to myself as “One of Eight” in emails regarding my tutoring. Back in 2009 (or thereabouts) the University conceded to pressure from the trade union and put we lowly teaching assistants on a proper pay scale … Continue reading