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Category Archives: Academia
Trust me, I’m a doctor
On Monday I passed my PhD viva. This thesis has been a long time cooking – I began on Jan 7th 2013, took a year out due to ill health, had two changes of thesis title and lost three supervisors … Continue reading
Unwrapping the Fun in Assessment & Feedback
A podcast recorded on December 2020 when I talk a lot about assessment, feedback and participatory learning
Posted in #CLMOOC, Academia, Assessment, HE
Tagged #clmooc, assessment. HE, connected learning
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Tying it all together
Nearly there. This week I spoke to my supervisor and my Graduate School and I have sent off my “intention to submit” by March 31st 2021. It’s almost done- I just need to finish the final chapters and give it … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Academia, Editing, Learning, MOOC, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, PhD
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Reclaiming Lurking
Lurking is a potential problem for theories of social constructivism and principles of active learning. It’s also a problem for data analytics – if the student is not VISIBLE, how do we KNOW that they are learning? The invisible are … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo15, Academia, Critical pedagogy, Facebook, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching
Tagged active learning, CoP, Lave and Wenger, LPP, lurking. lurk, social constructivism
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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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Returning to learning
So this week Turnitin announced their automated marking service. My first reaction was to groan and wonder how long it would be before we were asked if we’d be supporting the service. Then Scott said something that made me think … Continue reading
On Creativity
This week in #rhizo14 we’re meant to be thinking about creativity. Some people are running with this and going and doing lots of lovely creative things, like this image on this, others are engaging with #ds106. I’ve been really busy catching … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, D&G, Philosophy, Wedding, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, Bruffee, creativity, D&G, Dasein, Heidegger
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Planned Obsolescence
There is a saying, supposedly Buddhist, that “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. This week in #rhizo14 we are looking at the opposite to this – how should the teacher disappear – how do we empower our learners … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, Learning, Wittgenstein
Tagged #rhizo14, Jigsaw, learning, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein
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I have the questions for all of your answers
Years ago (gosh, at least ten years, how shocking to realise), I ended up moderating a public Philosophy forum. It’s long gone now but I am still friends with many of my fellow moderators including the wonderful Andrew Jeffrey, who … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, D&G, Learning, Philosophy, Plato, Rhizomes, Teaching, University
Tagged #rhizo14, HE, Nietzsche, Plato, uncertainty
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The Spirit of the Age?
I’ve just spent a while creating a blog post for my official uni blog only to find that the ability to embed YouTube is not enabled on the site 🙁 I was already grumbly and mumbling about corporate capitalists and … Continue reading