Tag Archives: HE

Generating assessment principles

Posted on 10th February 2018 by NomadWarMachine

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 →

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Learning Technology Cats

Posted on 21st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

The problem with learning technology as a specialism is that there are not enough cats involved. Oh, sure, some of us have cats and most of us enjoy watching them on the interwebz, but we don’t get them involved enough … Continue reading →

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Returning to learning

Posted on 1st May 2015 by NomadWarMachine

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 →

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Transitory communities

Posted on 14th February 2014 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday I blogged about my journey back through the North West of England during the storm that hit the country the Wednesday.  Then last night I took part in the unhangout for week 5 of #rhizo14, and began by saying … Continue reading →

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I have the questions for all of your answers

Posted on 2nd February 2014 by NomadWarMachine

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 , , , , | 7 Comments