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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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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) –…
Dave Webster 