The new PCTHE cohort is significantly different to those of years previous. There are 43 on the register. Of these 22 - just more than half - are eligible to enter with AP(E)L for 20 (out of 60) credits at level seven. They arrived with QTS and/or Associate membership of the HE Academy and/or a … Continue reading Counting and dividing: half the #pcthe cohort enter with AP(E)L
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The first day of the PCTHE
We must have been given the worst teaching room in the University (Gibbs 2.15). It was on the edge of a building site with fork lifts reversing all morning. The room was the only unrefurbished one on this floor of the building. The seating was really poor quality: ripped seats, gum on the floor. There … Continue reading The first day of the PCTHE
Social Media and the Harrisburg Experiment
Last week the social media networks and the printed press, too, were buzzing with news that Harrisburg University of Science and Technology was blocking access to all social media sites for the week. There were predictable reactions from all sides. But ultimately interesting questions could be asked and there is probably something worth studying about … Continue reading Social Media and the Harrisburg Experiment
Reflections on the eve of a new academic year
There is still a hard day's work ahead before the introduction to the PCTHE for 2010-11. For some reason the VLE and wiki are not developing themselves. Packs for the day do not seem to be reproducing like the little bunnies I wish they were. The to-do list of best intentions is shrinking to only … Continue reading Reflections on the eve of a new academic year
Writing a Course Review
I recently met with a student who had been unsuccessful in achieving the criteria for one of the assignments on the PCTHE. Most of my comments are of a general nature regarding the writing of a course review, so I thought I would post them. Back up your assertions with evidence. As teachers and students … Continue reading Writing a Course Review
Course Leader’s Blog
As we get ready for the academic year 2010-11, I am preparing our Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education. This involves: updating the Handbook for this instance of the course for the last time. We will be revalidating a new PCTHE for 2011-12; updating the VLE (Brookes Virtual/Blackboard) and Wiki (Confluence). There are … Continue reading Course Leader’s Blog
Lecture capture and participatory media for education: a talk for eL@B
I suppose there comes a tolerance of living with a degree of chaos. Knowledge is quite loosely coupled, I find.The page I showed with the links came originally from a talk I did at the November eLearning at Brookes (eL@B) meeting on Participatory Media for teaching in Higher Education. The link to the slightly updated … Continue reading Lecture capture and participatory media for education: a talk for eL@B
Curriculum design for new social media – a great illustration of incorporating digital literacy into the curriculum #pcthe
In “Introduction to Mass Communication,” I’d like to see more discussions about how personal communications can easily become mass communication because the Web has hyperlinked everything. Students should explore the changing models of mass communications – how int he past, content used to be broadcast to the masses, and would then be shared person-to-person. Today, … Continue reading Curriculum design for new social media – a great illustration of incorporating digital literacy into the curriculum #pcthe
Discipline
I am going to be leading a workshop on "Investigating teaching in your discipline" next Wednesday. The outline is attached to this page (below). Discipline is an interesting word, which we often use without reflecting on the complex valency of meanings that it bears. I have been reading Foucault's Discipline and Punish in preparation for … Continue reading Discipline
Does it matter if students stop using courseware when the course ends? Digilit musings
However, a bigger concern is for those services where I was able to track usage was that after the course ended, so did student use. via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com This experience mirrors ours, though I only have anecdote to support it. Courses where PebblePad is used do not seem to engender an extended adoption of the platform … Continue reading Does it matter if students stop using courseware when the course ends? Digilit musings
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