Hazel Owen
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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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To be or not to be…student engagement?
Norm Vaughan was one of the key note speakers on the second day of the ASCILITE 2012 conference. The 3 Rs of engagement are relevance, rigour, and relationships (Dennis Littky, 2004 http://bigpicture.org). The student sense of wonder and inquiry are … Continue reading
Posted in All, Blended learning
Tagged #ascilite2012, Blended learning, empowerment, engagement, online learning
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You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating….
fun (Photo credit: hodgers) This is, I felt, and insightful post, by Bill Ferriter (August 17th, 2012). In the post Bill, makes the point that was music to my ears: Basically what I’m arguing is that finding ways to … Continue reading
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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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
Change at the speed of…so, who has got it right?
There is, perhaps, a perception that change is happening at great speed. However, some of the big institutions (e.g. education, health) appear to be positively glacial with the rate they are responding to change, and what is more, there seems … Continue reading
Posted in All, Design, Future
Tagged architecture, change, design, empowerment, future, innovation, mindshift, Technology
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Prompting good learning and setting the stage for authentic student achievement
I have been reading and listening to Gary Stager for several years now, and much of what he says resonates with where I hope education in particular, and approaches to learning in general, are heading. In A Good Prompt is … Continue reading
Posted in All, Design, Future, Student voice
Tagged assessment, design, empowerment, Facilitator, gary stager, Learning, prompts, Research, Student voice, trust, voice
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Engaging reluctant learners
This was a session facilitated by Clarrie Yates on 23 May 2012. I live blogged as we went along, but Blogger seems to have removed the automatic save function – or maybe something else happened! Needless to say, I lost … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement, How to..., Research, Resources
Tagged cultural appropriacy, cultural responsiveness, E-learning, elearning, empowerment, Learning, student engagement
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Untangling notions of flipped classrooms
Having done a wee bit more research around the Flipped classroom that centre around videos, I found this rather thought-provoking blog post by Jackie Gerstein entitled Flipped classroom full picture: An example lesson Jackie quotes Harvard Professor Chris Dede (Global Education 2011 … Continue reading
Posted in All, Engagement, How to..., Resources
Tagged Aaron Sams, activities, Classroom, E-learning, Education, elearning, empowerment, flipped classroom, mlearning, mobile learning, Multimedia, planning, Screencast, student centred, Video
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