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  1. amiddlet50

    Creative Assessment – what is it?

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    | Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, blogging, creativity, learner engagement, Media-enhanced feedback, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, social media for learning, Syndicated
    December 15, 2023
    In higher education assessment is recognised as a driving force for student engagement and curriculum design. How does this tally with a desire for active student-centred learning? How can it accommodate the artistry in the academic practitioner who seeks to … Continue reading ?
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  2. amiddlet50

    Transgressive learning – moving away from a mindset of inevitability

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, adjacent space, agency, authentic learning, boundary crossing, Co-operative pedagogy, communitas, creativity, embodiment, experiential learning, heutagogy, learning ecologies, Learning Space and Place, liminality, negotiated learning, non-formal learning, outsider, polycontextuality, self-determination, self-determination theory, spatial fluency, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Sustainability, Syndicated, third place, Third Space, Transgressive learning
    July 27, 2023
    Transgressive learning is a term associated with sustainability. Wals (2021), for example, discusses the Power of Transgressive Learning in an excellent post. My own interest in the term, however, came from reflecting on educational work I am currently involved in … Continue reading ?
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  3. amiddlet50

    Community of Enhancement

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    | Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, active learning, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, Communities of Enhancement, Community of Practice, Digital Placemaking, network, networked authorship, Syndicated, toolkits
    November 23, 2021
    I keep returning to the phrase Community of Enhancement to describe my philosophy behind my staff development role. It is not astounding but, significantly for me, it is a better than Community of Practice. It reflects and models the ethos … Continue reading ?
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  4. amiddlet50

    Photopedagogy and photovoice

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    | Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, active learning, agency, audio, audio-enhanced learning, belonging, BYOD4L, capture, co-production, community, connectivity, creativity, Digital Placemaking, learner engagement, learner gatherer, learning ecologies, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, location, Media-enhanced learning, mobile learning, photo elicitation, photograph, photography, photomontage, photopedagogy, photovoice, place, portfolio, screen-based learning, Smart Learning & BYOD, smartphone, social media for learning, Syndicated, ubiquitous technolous, user producer
    August 14, 2021
    Loopmans et al. (2012) observe that photographs incite public debate about place and community. When that public context is the university course and where there is a desire for learning engagement and community building, how can photography empower the learner? … Continue reading ?
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  5. amiddlet50

    Crisis – what crisis? A time for academic innovation

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Change, co-operation, collaboration, connecting, creativity, inclusivity, innovation, placemaking, Syndicated, Teaching
    June 10, 2021
    At Wonkfest I attended a panel session titled Changing the Culture of Changing the Culture in which Charlotte Summers, who is Head of Commercial Development at the RSA, referred to the RSA’s excellent Future Change Framework. Admittedly, I am a … Continue reading ?
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  6. amiddlet50

    Conversational Learning Spaces for #activelearning

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, agency, Applied Learning, Assessment & Feedback, belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, context, conversation, creativity, Digital Placemaking, diversity, employability, exchange, identity, improvisation, inclusivity, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, negotiation, openness, parity, PhD, place, Possibilities, selfregulation, Serendipity, social construction, social media for learning, storytelling, studio-based learning, Syndicated, timeliness, trust, walking
    October 3, 2019
    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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  7. amiddlet50

    Wrecking it with Brexit

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, assemblage theory, belonging, Brexit, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, conference, connectivity, ecology, employability, gamification, globalisation, icebreaker, intercultural learning, interdisciplinary learning, interprofessionalism, learner engagement, learning space, Lego Serious Play, LSP, open learning, populism, research, scholarship, Syndicated
    September 22, 2019
    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 →
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  8. amiddlet50

    Competition and co-operation in the #activelearning classroom

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, assemblage theory, Assessment & Feedback, BYOD, co-creation, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaborating, collaboration, competition, creativity, ecology, gamification, Image, Instagram, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning space, memes, motivation, peer assessment, PhD, sm4l, smart learning, Social Media, social media for learning, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, team-based learning
    August 3, 2019
    I have been reading a great paper this morning on the use of Instagram memes by students studying art at Central St Martins (Burns et al., 2016). Amongst the many themes present in the paper, I picked up on one … Continue reading →
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  10. amiddlet50

    Table gallery for Media-Enhanced Teaching & Learning #activelearning #ARUengage

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Assessment & Feedback, audio, audio feedback, BYOD4L, creativity, innovation, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced feedback, Media-enhanced learning, media-enhanced Teaching and learning, pedagogy, Possibilities, research, screencast, Smart Learning book, Syndicated, table gallery, Video
    June 26, 2019
    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 →
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  11. amiddlet50

    Standing, Walking, Crawling and the art of conversational learning #activelearning

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Digital Placemaking, floor-based pedagogy, learning space, learning walk, Possibilities, social media for learning, space, studio-based learning, Syndicated, twalk, walking, walls
    June 8, 2019
    On Tuesday I will be running a workshop at the Active Learning Conference at the University of Sussex. Titled ‘Standing, Walking, Crawling and the art of conversational learning’, it reflects on some of the active learning techniques I have developed … Continue reading →
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  12. amiddlet50

    Promoting learner autonomy and the question of fail-safe strategies

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, authentic learning, Autonomy, belonging, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, Digital Placemaking, disclosure, heutagogy, inclusivity, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, risk, safe space, self-direction, Syndicated
    April 7, 2019
    As an advocate of active learning, learner autonomy is never far from my thinking. The development of confident autonomous lifelong learners and intrinsically motivated self-determined graduates captures, for me, the primary purpose of a UK higher education. It is the … Continue reading →
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  13. amiddlet50

    #Twalk – a new active pedagogy explained

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, BYOD, learner engagement, Media-enhanced learning, pedagogy, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, walking
    March 28, 2019
    This post, and the ones that will follow, reflect on the Twalk as a pedagogy. In particular, I consider how students can draw upon the conversational activity and use the data it generates as the basis for developing and explaining … Continue reading →
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  14. amiddlet50

    Being there – thinking about presence #socmedhe18 #mugafesto

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, belonging, BYOD, co-production, creativity, Digital Placemaking, friendship, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, networked authorship, open learning, polycontextuality, Presence, research, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated
    January 10, 2019
    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 →
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  15. amiddlet50

    C is for course of course

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Applied Learning, Assessment & Feedback, belonging, confidence, consistency, course, course-focused practice, learner engagement, research, self-efficacy, Syndicated
    November 28, 2018
    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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  16. amiddlet50

    Crashing or connecting? Navigating the #twalk boundaries

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, Applied Learning, belonging, blended learning, boundary crossing, connected learning, Digital Placemaking, hybrid learning space, learner engagement, learning space, Possibilities, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, twitter, walking
    July 6, 2018
    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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  17. amiddlet50

    A place for imagining – blue skies under the tree canopy

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, agility, apps, authentic learning, brainstorming, BYOD, BYOD4L, co-operation, collabnorating, collaborating, collaboration, collabotation, complexity, innovation, learner engagement, learning environments, learning space, meeting, Reflection, situated learning, smart devices, smart learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, tools, walk, walking
    June 26, 2018
    Myself and a colleague have some difficult thinking to do this week. Exciting thinking, but difficult nevertheless. So, we could book out a teaching room lined with whiteboards for the day and see what happens, but that feels too ‘inward’ … Continue reading →
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  18. amiddlet50

    The future is active – implications for future academic practice

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, active pedadgogy, Assessment & Feedback, authentic learning, belonging, communities of practice, creativity, critical literacy, debate, Digital Placemaking, futures, graduate capabilities, group work, immersive learning, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, literacy, networked learning, nomadicism, rtesilience, self-efficacy, spaced learning, Syndicated, trends
    June 25, 2018
    I have been thinking about the future academic and the implications for academic development recently. The Open University’s ‘Innovating Pedagogy’ is an insightful annual report (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/), though I would love to see one for 2018. I have seen Mike Shales … Continue reading →
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  19. amiddlet50

    Who is the FAB academic? Thinking about engaging the future academic (team)

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    | Academic innovation, active learning, blended learning, flexible learning, flipped learning, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, Possibilities, principles, Syndicated
    June 8, 2018
    FAB academics Introducing FAB – Flipped Active & Blended Learning FAB is a playful idea I am using in my MELSIG work. Graham McElearney and myself will be leading the development of a toolkit for academics focused on curriculum innovation … Continue reading →
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  20. amiddlet50

    Researching academic innovation to foster belonging

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    | Academic innovation, belonging, identity, innovation, learning environments, learning space, People, place, placemaking, Relationships, research, research methods, social, student engagement, Syndicated, Third Space
    March 4, 2018
      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 →
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  22. amiddlet50

    The problem of developing consistency in academic team innovation #SEDAconf

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    | Academic innovation, consistency, course, Diffusion of innovations, innovation, learning space, Possibilities, programme, Syndicated
    November 20, 2017
    My colleague Helen Kay and I worked with one of our course teams last year to role out SCALE UP (Student-Centred Active Learning for Upside-down Pedagogy). The expanded name of the learning space model is very descriptive and clarifies why … Continue reading →
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