Tag: Educational development

Integration of Pathfinding activities into staff and educational development activities; Development of models and processes to support inter and intra institutional teams undertaking transformative course redesigns; Support for e-Learning Champions in academic Schools and e-Learning Networks in Associate College Partners and Community Learning Centres; Guidelines, Reports and Dissemination to embed e-learning into the wider communities.

Richard Waller: Cultural Capital – getting in, getting on, getting out

Academic Enhancement and Standards Committee (AESC) – Away Day, Oxford Brookes University, Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 1400 – 1500. Views and interpretations are my own. Post updated through the day. Richard Waller Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education, University of the West of England (UWE). draws on research from the Paired Peers project. Mobilising … Continue reading Richard Waller: Cultural Capital – getting in, getting on, getting out

Gwen van der Velden: Student Engagement in Learning and Teaching Quality Management

Academic Enhancement and Standards Committee (AESC) - Away Day, Oxford Brookes University, Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 1130 - 1300. Views and interpretations are my own. Post updated through the day. Gwen van der Velden is Director of Learning and Teaching at Bath University. Heads, QA/QE, eLearning, Educational Development and English Language Teaching. Gwen and her … Continue reading Gwen van der Velden: Student Engagement in Learning and Teaching Quality Management

Resilience: a theme for learning in higher education?

Preamble: Reading "Resilience" This post is written for the Principal Lecturers Thematic Event at Oxford Brookes University on Thursday 12 March. The post will be updated through the day [semi-live blogging]. I should say that this piece is my perspective and does not necessarily represent the views of others or the institution. I did a … Continue reading Resilience: a theme for learning in higher education?

Widening Participation Working Group Away Day (Oxford Brookes University)

Semi-live notes from very interesting and data filled Oxford Brookes University Widening Participation Working Group Away Day at Marston Road. (Of 30 people in the room only one obviously black man and two Asian women. Matches our BME student profile? c. 10%) The day was framed by demographics about where Brookes sits, and politics in … Continue reading Widening Participation Working Group Away Day (Oxford Brookes University)

First Steps Again

FSLT15 is off to an easy start so far. It will be interesting to see how many attend the webinar on Monday. There are about 60 participants signed up and about 26 are taking the course for University Credit (10 credits CATS level 7, M-level). The course is validated and acceptable on 3 programmes: The … Continue reading First Steps Again

University learning? A thousand-mile question (for discussion Tuesday, 09/12/2014, 1700)

Here is an advanced draft of the paper I was to have been giving today (9 December 2014) at Oxford Brookes University School of Education. Abstract As well as providing locations of learning and teaching, higher education is an important focus of much political debate. This paper sets out through an open epistemological narrative inquiry … Continue reading University learning? A thousand-mile question (for discussion Tuesday, 09/12/2014, 1700)

#Design 4 Learning 2014

Semi live , late blogging from the Design for Learning Conference, 27 November 2014, The Open University, Milton Keynes. Dr Tessa Eysink, University of Twente, Keynote "Learner performance in inquiry learning environments" Work in progress comparing Inquiry learning with expository instruction. The research was focused on the design and use of small Learning Objects in … Continue reading #Design 4 Learning 2014

Reading Emma Mulqueeny: epistemology narrative and truth

I have been reading Emma Mulqueeny, known to me through Twitter as @hubmum, who does fabulous things with young people and computers and politics. I have not always felt I agreed with Hubmum's politics, but heck, the state is her big client so you probably wouldn't bite down on the feeding hand and what do … Continue reading Reading Emma Mulqueeny: epistemology narrative and truth

EdD Colloquium: National and International Perspectives on Education

More semi live blogging Oxford Brookes University EdD colloquium. Saturday 28 June 2014. Mary Wild welcomes us and we introduce ourselves to people we do not know well. I met three first year EdD students and one third year, from Hawaii Mary praises research colleagues who foster learning based on peer support, inquiry, learning from … Continue reading EdD Colloquium: National and International Perspectives on Education

Open online courses: ALT MOOC SIG

Semi-live blog I am attending the ALT MOOC SIG. There is a question to be answered by everyone, who receives an income from an institution, and who asks that institution to do something for no remuneration. Why should that activity be subsidised? Who should subsidise it? In the past it has largely been the state … Continue reading Open online courses: ALT MOOC SIG