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Tag Archives: student engagement
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
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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Enjoyment, anticipation, challenge as factors affecting personal intrinsic investment #heutagogy
In our research-informed development activities looking at learner non-engagement with formative assessment, with group work or with engaging in feedback, it is becoming clear that the lack of space given to developing learner ‘buy-in’ or developing ‘want’ is highly significant … Continue reading
Researching academic innovation to foster belonging
I am working with an innovative subject group at the moment who have done much to foster student belonging. They have a long list of small recent and current initiatives intended to develop a cohesive disciplinary identity. Previously, they … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation, Belonging, Learning Space and Place, Scholarship and Research
Tagged Belonging, identity, innovation, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, people, place, placemaking, relationships, research methods, Scholarship and Research, social, student engagement, Third Space
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Can anyone #twalk ? #socmedhe17
Next week myself, Alex Spiers, Chris Rowell and Jeff Waldock will run our workshop ‘Walk this Way’ at SocMedHE17. We will be joined in spirit at least by Santanu Vasant and Claire Moscrop. Between us, we ran the #twalk on … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Active Learning, BYOD, Digital Placemaking, Learning Space and Place, MELSIG, Social Media for Learning, Walking
Tagged blended learning, digital-social age, disruptive innovation, learning environments, MELSIG, mobile learning, place, smart devices, social media, Social Media for Learning, space, student engagement, technique, Third Space, twalk, twitter
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Friendship and the classroom
I attended a seminar today given by my colleague Emma Heron. I was fortunate enough to mentor Emma through a year-long research project looking at the role of friendship in the student experience. It was good to catch up today … Continue reading
Posted in Applied Learning, BYOD, Learning Space and Place
Tagged agency, Belonging, co-operation, ecology, identity, in-between, interactivity, journey, learner autonomy, Learner Engagement, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, liminality, place, placemaking, space, student engagement, Third Space, trust
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