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Category Archives: Engagement
Could learning analytics lead to the ‘Wal-Martification’ of Higher Education?
As a self-professed skeptic of learning analytics (I’m still not totally convinced they are great for the learner…even if they might be a great tool for education institutions), I was reassured to hear Gardner Campbell (director of professional development and innovative … Continue reading
Think before it’s too late (Edward de Bono)
It is really different to convince people that thinking is important. Thinking needs to be practical rather than political, and focussed on ‘what’s next’ rather than what has been. According to Edward de Bono (keynote at the final day of … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement, Future, Research
Tagged Edward de Bono, Mind, Science in Society, Six Thinking Hats, Skeptical Inquiry, Thought
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Human architecture of the brain and cognitive load theory – so what?
Another person who I have watched (on video) is Lane Clark, (and talked about her work for e.g. What is real learning?) so I am really looking forward to her session. Interesting that Lane had music playing, toys on the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Design, Engagement, Research
Tagged Attention, Brain, cognition, cognitive load theory, Education, Learning, Methods and Theories, Working memory
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Alternative approaches to the standard conference ‘lecture’? Please?
I am in a session, and I have decided to change the name of the presenter and not mention the title (but this person is an invited speaker). I read the overview of the session beforehand and was hooked. I … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement
Tagged Communications, conference, lectures, Presenter, Public speaking, TED Talks
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The Problem Finders: Design Thinking for Genuine Epic-Scale Problem-Based Learning (Ewan McIntosh)
I have seen and heard Ewan McIntosh speaking on many occasions, but all on videos or podcasts, so I am really looking forward to seeing him live in this keynote session. The description of the session reads:Project-based learning has been let down … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement
Tagged collaboration, Education, Ewan McIntosh, Learning, PBL, Problem-based learning, Research
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30 Surprising (possibly controversial) research findings about how young people learn
In November, just before the Christmas madness, Tess Pajaron dropped me an email to share an article that focuses on how people learn based on a range of research. The writer explores 30 approaches, each of them drawn from current research … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement, Research
Tagged "Early childhood", Education, Learning Theories, Methods and Theories, Reading, Research
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MOOCs – returning to questions of assessment and why we learn…
Massive open online courses (MOOCs), have been under discussion, and it seemed that in 2012 you couldn’t escape the flurry of courses (free on the whole, although many provided with a for-profit model seemingly in mind further down the track). … Continue reading
Posted in All, Assessment, Design, Engagement
Tagged Dave Cormier, E-learning, George Siemens, Massive open online course, MOOC, Stephen Downes
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Something practical for Christmas: 22 Google form templates
While the bigger questions around the meaning of education are engaging and 100% necessary, sometimes it is great to have someone create something really practical and immediately usable. Med Kharbach (of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning) has shared, just in … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement, Student voice
Tagged E-learning, Educational technology, elearning, Google, Google Form, template
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Twitter analytics in R…and using Twitter in teaching
For this presentation, Lyndon Walker started by asking the questions who uses Twitter (nearly everyone), and who uses Twitter in their teaching (not many). He then moved on to look at different ways Twitter can be used in teaching starting … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement
Tagged #ascilite2012, ascilite202, learning analytics, R, Tweeting, Twitter, Twitter in teaching
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How are we engaging all learners? Ideas and examples
Tody’s webinar (25 July 2012) was facilitated by Karen Melhuish (Enbling eLearning), and focussed on ways that we are engaging learners. The first thing the group did was reflected on a time when participants felt there were learning effectively. Some … Continue reading
