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Category Archives: Employability
Conversational Learning Spaces for #activelearning
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
Posted in Academic Innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Applied Learning, Assessment & Feedback, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Employability, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and Intelligence, PhD, Social Media for Learning, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Walking
Tagged Active Learning, agency, context, conversation, Creativity, diversity, exchange, identity, improvisation, inclusivity, Learning Space and Place, negotiation, openness, parity, place, selfregulation, serendipity, social construction, storytelling, timeliness, trust
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Wrecking it with Brexit
I’m sitting in a café on La Rambla in Barcelona following a couple of days participating in an international learning spaces summit in Barcelona (#ILS2019). (nb. I use ‘participating’ not ‘attending’) We are getting really close to Brexit now and … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Employability, Gamification, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Open Learning, Scholarship and Research
Tagged Active Learning, assemblage theory, Brexit, co-creation, conference, connectivity, ecology, Employability, globalisation, icebreaker, intercultural learning, interdisciplinary learning, interprofessionalism, Learning Space and Place, Lego Serious Play, LSP, populism, scholarship
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Co-creation and epistemic fluency – the real legacy of Web 2.0 and social media for learning
Tomorrow’s professionals will require an enhanced capacity for collaboration, co-operation and creative thinking (Markauskaite and Goodyear, 2016). Mclaughlan & Lodge (2019) draw parallels between epistemic fluency and design thinking to position the design studio as a relevant pedagogical model with an … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Employability, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, Scholarship and Research, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged acquisition, agency, becoming, co-creation, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaboration, Contribution-oriented approach, design thinking, distributed authorship, Employability, epistemic fluency, identity, innovation, learner-generated context, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, multimedia, networked authorship, participation, problem-solving, skills, slow media, Social Media for Learning, Web 2.0
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Teaching ‘whole people’ holistically – understanding co-operative learning
Andresen, Boud and Choen (2000) set out criteria for experience-based learning. The goal of experience-based learning involves something personally significant or meaningful to the students; Students should be personally engaged; Reflective thought and opportunities for students to write or discuss … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Employability, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Personal & Professional Development Planning, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged Active Learning, association, co-operative learning, Creativity, experiential learning, graduate capitals, space, Studio and Studio-based Learning
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Product – co-production vs commodification as a site of learning
Yesterday, I spent much of my time in meetings: one appraisal, one research-related, one project-related, and one a planning meeting. Coincidently, each of those four meetings required me to remind myself that an education is not, “A thing that can … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Employability, Learner Engagement, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged Active Learning, agency, Belonging, co-operation, co-production, collaboration, commodification, communities of practice, Employability, engagement, experiential learning, Learner Engagement, learning ecology
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Gamification – a way to understand #activeleaning
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
Posted in Active Learning, Applied Learning, Employability, Gamification, Learner Engagement
Tagged Active Learning, Canvas, challenge, curriculum design, edugames, exploration, failure, feedback, flow, fun, game-based learning, Gamification, motivation, play, playful learning, principles, self-determination theory, serious games
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Holistic model of active learning for integrated employability #activelearning
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
Posted in Active Learning, Applied Learning, Employability, Learner Engagement, Personal & Professional Development Planning
Tagged active curriculum, Applied Learning, authentic learning, Employability, integrated employability, reflection, self-actualisation, self-awareness, self-efficacy, self-esteem
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Active co-operativism for active learning
This is a second post looking at the student’s role and the academic skills and dispositions needed for success in the active classroom. The first looked at active listening. Here, I suggest active co-operativism is an attitude and an ethos … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Employability, Learner Engagement, Literacies and Intelligence
Tagged active co-operativism, Active Learning, actor-network theory, assemblage theory, co-operation, co-production, dispositions, distributed cognition, ethos, mutuality, peer co-operation, peer learning, skills
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Celebrate #imperfection. Challenge resilience.
I listed to Thomas Curran’s TedTalk ‘Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse’ before I left for work this morning. Curran warns against perfectionism, and his warning kept me thinking all day. Here are three mini-stories that explain why … Continue reading
A Dependency-Autonomy model for personal and professional development planning
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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