Author: DavidWebster
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e-learn16 – arrival reflections..
My first real encounter with e-learning, technology-enhanced learning, and the way educators use the opportunities it reflects, in a coherent organised way (I had been prone to playing with VLEs, audio and web-sites before, but rather haphazardly) was at AACE’s e-learn in 2006. I came home and immediately started (what became) www.rpeglos.com – a course…
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Digital Trends in Higher Education, and actual students..
While it is clear that McGraw-Hill Education is not a neutral player (as a leading publisher and advocate of digital learning solutions), but nonetheless, the headline results from their survey of over 3000 US College students are eye-catching. Amongst their student respondents, it is clear that there is at least a perception that digital offers…
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Using Technology in Your Humanities Classroom – a link..
Worth reading: https://www.edutopia.org/article/technology-in-humanities-class-david-cutler David Cutler writes: In Neil Postman’s The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School, published in 1995, the seemingly clairvoyant social critic explains how “the computer and its associated technologies are awesome additions to a culture.” But, he continues, “like all important technologies of the past, they are Faustian bargains, giving…
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Learning & Teaching Symposium Storify
I really enjoyed organising a Faculty of Arts Learning & Teaching Symposium last week, here at Gloucestershire. The twitter chatter, and links to all the presentations, etc, are captured in this Storify: https://storify.com/davidwebster/learning-and-teaching-symposium Thanks to Eric Stoller for the Keynote, and I think that the rest of the day we ended up with some very robust,…
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What on earth is Google Jockeying?
Originally posted on Digital Skills: You might well ask! Actually – the idea is that you have a person in the room (in my experiments this coming Semester, it’ll be a student nominated for that week) – who as the lecture progresses Googles key ideas and notions (and maybe pulls up pertinent pictures too) –…
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Feedbacking.. Blending grids and audio responses to essays
Feedback is the source of substantial anxiety for many University students, and for staff and institutions trying to get it right.. In 2014/5 I tried a method that I had seen elsewhere – audio feedback – but adapted it to fit our context – and to allay some of my concerns about students feeling they…
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Some problems in teaching Buddhism
This is a Prezi I presented a few years back at an HEA event, which picked out some particular issues in the teaching of Buddhism (so it’s a bit more discipline specific than most things on this blog). You can read more over at the The British Association for the Study of Religions’ archive of…
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Language, Words and stuff… Thinking about student note-taking and phone use..
I was privileged last week to teach a class on my colleague’s HM5204 New Media Literacy module here at Gloucestershire, which is part of the English Language/Linguistics area. They are looking at the ways language responds to new, often social, media – and the way language is used in shaping those discourses we find on-line. Normally…
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Shock News: The future doesn’t exist yet…
Going to Learning and Teaching conferences can be confusing. And annoying. Having spent portions of my time at Philosophy conferences/teaching philosophy and bickering about it (that is, engaged in scholarly debate of the highest possible standard), I’m used to people being cautious as to what they can claim to know with certainty. People are tentative about…
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Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries
In 2013, at the ‘6th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation’ in Seville, I presented this paper, which seems to capture some of the conversations I have been having recently, as more colleagues who were on the outside of the digital/e-learning world have begun, sometimes willingly, to migrate into that space. I…
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