Author: DavidWebster
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Why lectures are brilliant/rubbish, and differentiation reflections
In about 1993, when I was taking my first tentative steps in University teaching, I was invited to a day of staff development training. My memory of that day (indeed, much of that century) is a little hazy, but I do remember being told that that age of the lecture was over. Apparently the way…
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Faith at Gloucester Cathedral
Originally posted on Dispirited: I was honoured to be featured by the fantastic Gloucester-based artist Russell Haines in his current Faith exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral. He had decided early in the project that an atheist voice/faith was going to be part of the mosaic of ideas and beliefs that his project explores. The project attracted some…
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Is written feedback on assignments useless? Listening to Phil Race at Gloucestershire..
On January 20th, we had the pleasure at Gloucestershire to welcome Phil Race, to spend a day with us, talking primarily about the issues of assessment and feedback in Higher Education. You can read more, and download the slides he used, via his blog post about the visit, but I want to focus in here…
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Getting High in the Low Countries.
Originally posted on Dispirited: This is a piece I wrote for the Holdbreaker Climbing blog. The original is on their blog, but they seem to have had some technical issues recently, so am mirroring it here… Middle-age, it seems, is full of surprises. Of twists and turns that befuddle attempts at prediction and sense-making. These thoughts…
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Social Media, Boundaries and Higher Education – an interview
A short interview, where I talk about the University use of Social Media. I talk a little about engagement and the role of (ethical) boundaries in this..
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Eric Stoller talks about Academics and Social Media
At the University of Gloucestershire, in September 2016, I interviewed Eric Stoller about the keynote lecture that he’d just delivered to our Faculty Learning & Teaching Symposium. The lecture had been about Why Academic Must Use Social Media. I invited him, after hearing him speak on a related topic at JISC’s 2016 DigiFest, and he has shared…
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National Teaching Fellowship 2016
Really pleased to be able to announce that I’ve been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. Obviously I am pleased in a vain, ego-driven, seeker-of-external-validation-in-order-to-justify-my-pointless-existence, kind of way. But there is more to it than that. Where I think the NTF scheme (actually) matters is the focus it puts on learning…
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Interview for Innovate Learning Review
After the recent e-learn conference, I did a very brief interview for AACE’s Innovate Learning Review. I think I also did a video interview for them, but I was so congested, it would have been incomprehensible – so I am glad they seem to have used their better judgement on that one! You can read…
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A decade in a grain of sand: e-learn lessons, ageing, and reflections.
Reflecting on the ten years separating e-learn 06, from the 2016 event, and what has changed. Time has a habit of slipping by. This is worse as we age, as the decades that rush by us represent a smaller proportion of our life thus far. Having speculated a little about middle-age elsewhere, it’s probably wise…
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Reflections on the use of ‘Real World’ in Education.. from e-learn16.
Here at e-learn 2016, I was delighted to be able to listen to our first keynote session, from Digital-Natives-coining speaker Marc Prensky. He didn’t get into the whole debate about that term, but rather concentrated on his most recent publication and the ideas behind it. This was a powerful plea to redesign the educational process from…
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