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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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Digital who?
Last week, at JISC’s digifest event, I had the pleasure of hearing Dr Donna Lanclos offer ‘four provocations’: she blogged about them here: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform-feature/the-death-of-the-digital-native-23-feb-2016 While I was interested in the broad sweep of what she had to say – and the conversations that followed in the Q&A, the Digital Native bit caught my attention particularly.…
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Writing for JISC about Social Media in Higher Education
After being named as one of ‘the 50 most influential higher education (HE) professionals using social media‘ by JISC, last year, I blogged for them in December about the way I’ve been trying to use Social Media in one of the course areas that I work in. The full post is at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-departmental-social-media-use-in-universities-needs-to-evolve-and-grow-03-dec-2015. We also made…
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