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Tag Archives: challenge
A Man Walked into a Bar: humour, space, self-deprecation, #activelearning
In this post I explore the pedagogy of humour in the context of higher education teaching and learning and begin to realise there’s more to humour in the classroom than having a bit of fun! This was my starting point, … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Gamification, Learner Engagement
Tagged case-based learning, challenge, collaboration, deduction, edutainment, engagement, fun, game-based learning, group work, humour, in jokes, inclusivity, jokes, learning, performance, persona, play, playful learning, poetry, self-awareness, teaching, tension, trust
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Curiosity – untapping latent energy
Continuing from the post ‘Sublime, curious and distracted – challenging conceptions of learning’, I want to examine curiosity towards finding strategies that can be deployed by the academic and the learner themselves to create an engaging learning environment. Surely, curiosity … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Learner Engagement
Tagged agency, case-based learning, challenge, course design, course-focussed practice, critical thinking, curiosity, decision-based learning, deduction, deductive reasoning, deep learning, desire, drive, enjoyment, exploration, flow, fragmentation, graduate capabilities, interrogation, intrigue, intrinsic motivation, knowledge, lifelong learning, liminality, module-centric, narrative, negotiation, open-ended, passive learning, transition, wonder, wonderment
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Unified Active Learning – our commitment to #activelearning wherever and however we access learning
I am in reflective mode – it’s summer 2021 and in the West we’re trying to get over the pandemic, catch our breath, and decide what we value, what we have done, what changes will stick. It is both a … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place
Tagged Active Learning, blended learning, challenge, change, collaborative, design, ecosystem, hybrid learning space, identity, inclusivity, innovation, Learner Engagement, learning environments, pandemic, placemaking, space, teaching, UAL, unified active learning
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Transparency, turbulence, ambiguity and uncertainty in #activelearning
“One student’s safe uncertainty is another student’s chaotic nightmare.” (Orr & Shreeve, 2018) Based on research I conducted with others into student satisfaction of learning (Heaton et al., 2015), being clear with students about what is expected of them has … Continue reading
Posted in Learner Engagement
Tagged Active Learning, agency, art, becoming, being, Belonging, challenge, clarity, co-creation, co-operation, co-operative learning, communities of practice, connecting, Creativity, doing, embodiment, experience, experiential learning, formal learning, identity, Learner Engagement, learning, learning ecology, learning environments, motivation, non-formal learning, ontology, place, placemaking, Presence, scaffolding, self-efficacy, skills, space, Studio, studio for all, teaching, technique, technology, tutoring
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Blogging as a site of embodiment, co-production and enculturation
In this post I look at blogging as a studio space by reflecting on how and why I blog. A study of studio is a study of embodiment: the “embodied occupational engagement in constructing meaning [and how] the occupations in … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, Creativity, Learning Space and Place, Social Media for Learning
Tagged ANT, assemblage theory, blogging, challenge, co-production, components, Creativity, critical ontology, distributed cognition, embodiment, hybrid learning studio, ontology, othering, paradox, podcasting, site, situated learning, Social Media for Learning, sociomateriality, Studio, studio for all, support, ZPD
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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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Academic Peak Moments #activelearning
Dan Heath, one of the keynotes at InstructorCon, did a great job of introducing the idea of peak moments as being a useful device for designing and evaluating a student’s academic experience. Experience can be quite a vague or abstract … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Learner Engagement
Tagged Active Learning, challenge, experience, interactivity
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Repositioning contact time to explain the value of education
I happened to mention that I worked in higher education to a women who sold me a vase in a craft shop; the sort of situation where I normally feel at ease with people I meet beyond the educational setting. … Continue reading
Posted in Belonging, Learner Engagement, Learning Space and Place
Tagged Active Learning, agency, agility, autonomy, boundary crossing, challenge, co-operation, collaboration, collabotation, communities of practice, ecology, Employability, engagement, identity, journey, Learner Engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, liminality, motivation, networked learning, people, place, placemaking, reflection, relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, space, student engagement, time, transformation
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Rules of engagement – how to motivate students
I have been working with course teams across the University recently on a number of themes where there is a common articulation of a fundamental problem – how to engage students. Without marks. Many books have been written and many … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Belonging, Learner Engagement
Tagged benefits, challenge, engagement, enjoyment, identity, motivation
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