Category Archives: Applied Learning

Learning design which provides the student with authentic, real world challenges

Fluency – standing, walking, dancing

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Andrew Middleton

Being able to distinguish between skills, literacy and fluency is a perennial part of my job as an educational developer. This is most visible in thinking about how to communicate and engage people in conversations to do with digital capabilities, … Continue reading →

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Conversational Learning Spaces for #activelearning

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

In an earlier post I referred to Learning Walks as conversational learning spaces. As such, they exemplify active learning spaces. The focus on conversation as a dimension of active learning is at the heart of the rationale for advocacy for … Continue reading →

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Gamification – a way to understand #activeleaning

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

I have been interested in games-based learning and playful learning since the early 2000s when I came across J. P. Gee’s work and since leading work on creative development in academic practice. The Creative Development Team I was responsible for … Continue reading →

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Holistic model of active learning for integrated employability #activelearning

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

You may be aware that I changed job this year and I now have the privilege of leading work in support of Anglia Ruskin University’s Active Curriculum Framework. It was the institutional commitment to active learning in its Education Strategy … Continue reading →

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Active listening for active learning

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

Active Listening sketch note by Claudio Advocates of active learning must consider the active learning space from many perspectives. For example, I tend to think about space experientially, creating a picture in my own mind of a space that is … Continue reading →

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Doing, Being, Becoming, Belonging & Connecting #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

The Twalk next week (27th March 2019) at 1-2pm UK time, has the theme of Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space, This post provides a little explanation of each of those keywords. Doing A focus … Continue reading →

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A Dependency-Autonomy model for personal and professional development planning

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Andrew Middleton

The challenge of framing employability in relation to personal and professional development planning has been a constant consideration for the team I am leading to support an integrated view of employability in the curriculum. The natural inclination of academics, in … Continue reading →

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C is for course of course

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

Building upon research I conducted with student-nominated inspirational teachers in 2014 and then developed with colleagues here at SHU, to relate my work to the NSS, I have been working closely with all academic staff across three departments this year … Continue reading →

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Negotiated learning and the subject of teaching

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

What is the subject of teaching? In this post, I mull over this question, its several meanings and its implications for negotiated active learning. In my role as an educational developer with responsibilities for both staff and curriculum development, the … Continue reading →

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Crashing or connecting? Navigating the #twalk boundaries

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Andrew Middleton

The #connectedlearning space, in its many and various meanings, is central to my thinking about the future classroom. This is obviously epitomised in the concept of the #twalk. It was lovely to hear that Alex Spiers was leading a Twalk … Continue reading →

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