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What are the most important issues for students and parents when it comes to satisfaction with Higher Eduction?
What are the most important issues for students and parents when it comes to satisfaction with Higher Eduction (HE)? This infographic (based on US data) highlights important factors, as well as providing some guidelines for improving the overall college experience. I … Continue reading
Posted in All, Research, Student voice
Tagged Adult learner, Colleges and Universities, Community, Education, Educators, empowerment, High school, parents, Student voice
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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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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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Towards a sustainable support strategy for online students
English: Steph’s Rol Model (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This was a presentation given by Elizabeth Smith and Anne Lonie. The objective of the course is to introduce students to engineering, and the professional sustainable practice that goes alongside the engineering skills. … Continue reading
Posted in All, e-learning, Research
Tagged ascilite2012. #ascilite2012, E-learning, Education, Student
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Learning in the 21st Century: A 5 Year Retrospective on the Growth in Online Learning
Diagram of technology-empowered professional development for teachers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is report you may be interested in (recommended by John S Oliver). It is from a USA-based study (but the tends are likely to have some relevance to you) … Continue reading
Vital to education: Non-cognitive skills
Depression 4 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I found Back to School (by the This American Life Team) an eye-opening podcast that makes a huge amount of sense. In part it asks, how much can we expect teachers to do? Awareness … Continue reading
Posted in All, Research, Student voice
Tagged cognition, Cognitive Science, Education, Intelligence quotient, non-cognitive skills, Podcast, Social Sciences
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Flipping out about the 21st Century Fluency Project
The wonderful Vicki Hagenaar shared the following link to what I found an insightful resource. I was particularly taken by the post “The truth about flipped classrooms“, which addresses some of the myths and misconceptions around the flipped approach. I … Continue reading
Posted in All, Blended learning, Effective practice
Tagged Classroom, Education, empowerment, flipped, flipped classroom, Technology
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Should we be aiming for our Learning Management Systems to be ‘next gen’?
I’ve just finished reading a blog post by Tom Vander Ark entitled “Why Aren’t There Any Next Gen Learning Platforms?“. As Joyce indicated in her blog post (source): Well, I’m starting to think that most LMSs are simply not very … Continue reading
