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  2. 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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    Being smarter than AI – rethinking our assessment design?

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    | Academic Innovation and Possibilities, academic integrity, active learning, agency, AI, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, assessment literacy, authentic assessment, authentic learning, case-based learning, ChatGPT, creativity, currency, deduction, enquiry-based learning, inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, nergotiated learning, open-ended, pbl, personaisation, problem-based learning, project-based learning, smart assessment, social, student-centred, Syndicated
    January 31, 2023
    The discussion channels used by educational developers have been dominated by the topic of ChatGPT since the New Year. There are two dimensions to this: concerns over academic integrity and the opportunity ChatGPT and other AI tools bring to assessment. … Continue reading ?
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  5. amiddlet50

    Playing with divergence and convergence: designing #ActiveLearning

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    | active learning, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, convergence, creativity, Design Thinking, divergence, generative thinking, ideation, learner engagement, Syndicated
    December 11, 2020
    Active learning is a process of opening up and closing down possibilities. Whether you look at course, module, session or activity design, knowing that your role as an academic is to play with divergence and convergence can be really helpful. … Continue reading ?
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    Feedback: where learning begins #activelearning

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    | active learning, Assessment & Feedback, e-portfolios, feedback, formative assessment, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, notemaking, Personal & Professional Development Planning, portfolios, Reflection, reflective learning, Syndicated
    September 13, 2020
    While the title of this post is intentionally contentious, it allows me to reflect on one or two recent discussions and reinforce some key ideas about active learning design, especially in the context of ‘unified’ active learning (UAL): how it … Continue reading ?
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  7. 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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    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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    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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    #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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    Celebrate #imperfection. Challenge resilience.

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    | Assessment & Feedback, creativity, employability, graduate capabilities, graduate capitals, imperfection, Literacies and intelligence, motivation, perfectionism, Personal & Professional Development Planning, resilience, success, Syndicated
    March 19, 2019
    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 →
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    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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  13. 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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    Enjoyment, anticipation, challenge as factors affecting personal intrinsic investment #heutagogy

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    | active learning, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, challenge, collaboration, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning ecology, motivation, student engagement, Syndicated
    May 25, 2018
    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 →
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  15. amiddlet50

    B plus or A minus? Assessment in the creative disciplines

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    | artefact, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, authentic learning, ipsative assessment, learning currencies, learning space, process book, situated learning, studio-based learning, Syndicated
    February 13, 2018
    I attended ‘B plus or A minus? Assessment in the creative disciplines’, part of a programme of events being run by the University of the Arts London last week. The venue, Central St Martin’s (CSM) new Granary Wharfe, is a … Continue reading →
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  18. amiddlet50

    “Things that the mind already knows” – what is an assessment? #assessment #briefing

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    | Assessment & Feedback, briefing, BYOD, setting assessment, Syndicated
    December 11, 2017
    The American artist Jasper Johns, whose retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy closed over the weekend, was fascinated with exploring the theme ‘Things that the Mind Already Knows’. He is perhaps best known for his interest in iconographic images, especially … Continue reading →
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    Learning obscured due to overcrowding

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    | Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, briefing, BYOD, clarity, learning outcomes, peer co-operation, self-assessment, slow learning, Syndicated
    December 9, 2017
    Following on from my previous post on the criticality of students being clear about their assessment, I note that Black & Wiliam (1998, pp. 9-10) make similar points, while talking about self-assessment, about the engagement of students with their assessment. … Continue reading →
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