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Category Archives: Scholarship and Research
Lifewide learning domains: rich intersections or contested spaces
I noted in my previous post on mapping our learning that I would be engaging in the collaborative inquiry ‘Towards a Better Understanding of Our Own Learning Lives’ led by Norman Jackson, Rob Ward and Jenny Willis. I have just about … Continue reading
Posted in Belonging, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Personal & Professional Development Planning, Polycontextuality, Scholarship and Research, Social Media for Learning, Walking
Tagged ambiguity, assessment, boundary crossing, connections, domains, education, experiential learning, family, friendship, incidental learning, intersections, lifewide learning, lockdown, map, mapping, non-formal learning, ontology, pandemic, place, Polycontextuality, psychogeography, reflection, socialisation, space, third place, Third Space, Walking
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Identity and the DB3Cs Model – a briefing
This post allows me to encapsulate ideas discussed here previously in a form that I hope is useful to you whether you are an academic or educational developer. It presents the DB3Cs model in the form of a useful framework … Continue reading
Posted in Belonging, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, PhD, Scholarship and Research
Tagged becoming, being, Belonging, connecting, D3BC, DB3C, doing
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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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Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones
Space, including learning space, can be thought of as ‘spheres’ and ‘atmospheres’. Ash (2016) looks at the implications of this for studio studies. For me and my own interest in studio-based learning and my longstanding interest in the ‘digital voice’ … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Digital Placemaking, Gamification, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and Intelligence, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, Polycontextuality, Scholarship and Research, Social Media for Learning, Studio and Studio-based Learning
Tagged actor-network theory, affective domain, affordances, ANT, assemblage theory, atmospheres, attention, audio, digital voices, emotional intelligence, games development, headphones, immersive learning space, isolation, polycontextual bridging, psychosocial, sound space, spatial literacy, spheres, Studio
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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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Table gallery for Media-Enhanced Teaching & Learning #activelearning #ARUengage
I led three workshops at yesterday’s Engage Learning & Teaching conference at Anglia Ruskin University.. In one of them, I used the table gallery technique that I turn to frequently as a way to engage participants in topics where there … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, Assessment & Feedback, BYOD4L, Creativity, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced feedback, Media-enhanced learning, Scholarship and Research, Smart Learning & BYOD
Tagged audio, audio feedback, innovation, media-enhanced Teaching and learning, pedagogy, screencast, table gallery, video
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Being there – thinking about presence #socmedhe18 #mugafesto
First, and significantly, let me thank my colleagues and co-facilitators of #socmedhe18 which happened at Nottingham Trent University on Wednesday. I will reflect separately on the power of friend-based collaboration as a disruptive basis for creating a stimulating learning environment … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Active Learning, Belonging, BYOD, Creativity, Digital Placemaking, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, Open Learning, Polycontextuality, Scholarship and Research, Social Media for Learning
Tagged co-production, friendship, networked authorship, Presence, social media
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Lurking, Active Learning and Legitimate Peripheral Participation #socmedhe18
The first principle of active learning according to Bonwell & Eison (1991) is that it is more than passive listening. A rather negative note to start on perhaps, but we can see where they’re coming from. As we prepare, at … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Literacies and Intelligence, Open Learning, Scholarship and Research, Smart Learning & BYOD, Social Media for Learning
Tagged communities of practice, Lave, legitimate periupheral participation, lurking, modelling, observation, peer mentoring, scaffolding, Vygotsky, Wenger
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C is for course of course
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