Creative Assessment – what is it?

Creative Assessment – what is it?

by amiddlet50

| 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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Photopedagogy and photovoice

by amiddlet50

| 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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Playing with time and crossing boundaries: multichronicity #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| #ARUalc, active learning, Active Learning Conference, Activity, activity patterns, asynchronous, binary, bounaries, co-writing, collaboration, consequence, conversational learning, curation, Digital Placemaking, doing, ecology, eddie, engagement, experience, experiential learning, flow, hashtag, haunting, hybrid learning, inclusivity, latency, learner engagement, learning ecologies, learning engagement, learning space, Learning Space and Place, Media-enhanced learning, memory, memory mapping, micro-conversation, multichronicity, multilogue, navigation, podcasting, polycontextuality, reflection in action, reflection on action, Scholarship and Research, social media for learning, synchronous, Syndicated, temporal space, time-based learning, timeline, traces, tweetchat, UAL, unified active learning, walking
May 16, 2021

An analysis of the tweetchats revealed that neither synchronicity nor asynchronicity are able to capture the essence of what goes on in such a conversational space. Neither get close to capturing the value of the learning experience. Multichronicity provides a way of looking at the design of experiential learning in settings that accommodate learning ecologies: the academic designer must consider the quality of time spent in and navigating through a learning experience. Continue reading ?
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Structure and memory-mapping in #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| active learning, co-construction, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, conversation, creativity, deviance, heutagogy, inclusivity, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, map, Media-enhanced learning, memory, memory mapping, object-based learning, open learning, pattern, portfolios, Reflection, reflective learning, structure, Syndicated, twalk, walking
December 20, 2020

The idiom ‘from pillar to post’ both indicates the role of structure in a journey and cautions that substance, purpose and clarity are needed if an experience is to be fruitful. In the previous post, I discussed divergence and convergence … Continue reading ?
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Learning Spaces Iceberg

by amiddlet50

| active learning, adjacent space, agency, becoming, being, belonging, blended learning, connecting, connectivism, Digital Placemaking, digital space, doing, experiential learning, formal learning, friendship, hubs, hybrid learning space, infographic, informal learning, Learning Space and Place, liminality, material space, Media-enhanced learning, non-formal learning, ontology, placemaking, Smart Learning & BYOD, social media for learning, social spaces, spatial literacy, Syndicated, Third Space, timetabling, twalk, zones
October 27, 2020

This infographic represents the complexity of learning space discourse and points to the experiential value of the ‘hidden depths’ where the space is least understood because it is least represented and least visible – who are the advocates for the … Continue reading ?
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Get active- watch TV

by amiddlet50

| active learning, bob, Box of Broadcasts, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, creativity, learner engagement, Media-enhanced learning, peer assessment, problem-based learning, scenario-based learning, scenarios, Syndicated, Video
September 11, 2019

My colleague Jason Williams at ARU’s DigiFest (#ARUDigifest) introduced our academics to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), a service provided by the British University’s Film & Video Council (BUFVC). The service provides access to 65 ‘free-to-air’ channels and their current and … Continue reading →
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Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones

by amiddlet50

| active learning, actor-network theory, affective domain, affordances, ANT, assemblage theory, atmospheres, attention, audio, belonging, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, Digital Placemaking, digital voices, emotional intelligence, games development, gamification, headphones, immersive learning space, isolation, learner engagement, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, polycontextual bridging, polycontextuality, Possibilities, psychosocial, research, social media for learning, sound space, spatial literacy, spheres, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated
September 8, 2019

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 →
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Co-creation and epistemic fluency – the real legacy of Web 2.0 and social media for learning

by amiddlet50

| acquisition, active learning, agency, becoming, co-creation, co-operation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, collaboration, Contribution-oriented approach, creativity, Design Thinking, distributed authorship, employability, epistemic fluency, identity, innovation, learner engagement, learner-generated context, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, multimedia, networked authorship, participation, PhD, Problem Solving, research, skills, slow media, social media for learning, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, web 2.0
September 4, 2019

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 →
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The Connected Classroom – “The Hub of Connectivity” #activelearning #hybridlearning

by amiddlet50

| active learning, authentic learning, blended learning, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, co-production, conceptual knowledge, connected learning, context, creativity, definition, digifest, Digital Learning, Digital Placemaking, hybrid learning space, hybrid learning studio, hybridity, Ideas, interactivity, learner-generated content, learning environments, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, PhD, place, Possibilities, real world, situated learning, space, studio, Syndicated, Technology, technology-enhanced learning
August 22, 2019

I am preparing a workshop for #ARUDigiFest titled ‘Digital collaborators: developing a digital classroom approach of connected learning’ (Cambridge 9th September and Chelmsford 11th September). Working with my colleague Uwe Richter, we will explore the idea of the digital classroom … Continue reading →
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Table gallery for Media-Enhanced Teaching & Learning #activelearning #ARUengage

by amiddlet50

| 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

by amiddlet50

| 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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Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

by amiddlet50

| active learning, becoming, being, belonging, BYOD, connecting, conversation, Digital Placemaking, doing, formal learning, home, informal learning, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, non-formal learning, ontology, place, polycontextuality, social media for learning, space, Syndicated, third place, twalk, walk, walking, walkshop
March 21, 2019

Join us for a Twalk , 27th March 2019 Theme: Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space Venue: Your campus When: Wednesday 27th March 2019 between 1pm and 2pm (gather at 12.55 and allow time … Continue reading →
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Being there – thinking about presence #socmedhe18 #mugafesto

by amiddlet50

| 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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#mugafesto #socmedhe18

by amiddlet50

| #mugafesto, #socmedhe18, Media-enhanced learning, social media for learning, Syndicated
January 2, 2019

What is #mugafesto? Mugafesto is your manifesto on a cup! What do you need your manager, your academic colleagues, peers or students to see each morning as they have their cornflakes?! What hyperbolic pronouncement will get them thinking? …Get them … Continue reading →
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The happy accident – accidental learning #socmedhe18

by amiddlet50

| accidental learning, creativity, formal learning, incidental learning, informal learning, learner engagement, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, mistakes, risk, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated
November 7, 2018

I am trying to write about formality in learning. This is an ongoing theme for me inevitability, given my interest in spaces for learning in which the learner is the prime mover and agent at the centre of their learning. … Continue reading →
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Enhanced-learning – a spatial perspective #TEL

by amiddlet50

| #tel, active learning, blended learning, hybrid learning space, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group, Syndicated, technology-enhanced learning
June 14, 2018

I believe there is some confusion about the term technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and in general the idea of enhanced learning. In a recent post on Twitter @alejandro (12/06/18) says, “We should be critical of ‘technology-enhanced’ learning. Default setting: technology enhances things. … Continue reading →
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Who is the FAB academic? Thinking about engaging the future academic (team)

by amiddlet50

| 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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The habit of thinking differently by looking more deeply

by amiddlet50

| active learning, BYOD, immersion, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, literacy, Media-enhanced learning, multiple intelligencies, non-formal learning, open learning, photography, Possibilities, social space, Syndicated, visual literacy, walking
May 3, 2018

An exploration of visual literacies and multiple intelligences There are many reasons why I have committed to exploring the idea of learning walks in terms of learning space and many of those reasons have been discussed here previously. For the … Continue reading →
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Global #Twalkday

by amiddlet50

| agency, belonging, collaborating, Digital Placemaking, identity, learner engagement, learning environments, learning space, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, mobile learning, network, place, placemaking, sm4l, smart devices, smart learning, Social Media, social media for learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, walk, walking, walkshop
April 19, 2018

Global #Twalkday Wednesday 3rd October 2018 Theme: Doing, being, becoming, belonging and connecting Time: 3pm GMT (but options for other time zones to be decided) What is Twalkday? The Twalk will be co-ordinated globally and is planned to coincide with … Continue reading →
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Missed opportunities – where are the alternatives to Storify?

by amiddlet50

| curation, delicious, digital narrative, Media-enhanced learning, Pearltrees, Possibilities, social media for learning, Storify, Syndicated
March 11, 2018

Storify.com is shutting up shop and this has been troubling me since the news was announced several months ago. The main problem, as I see it, is that Storify is a one-of-a-kind service. For educational users, it signalled the potential … Continue reading →
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Where are you taking me? Thinking about the politics of network

by amiddlet50

| learning space, Media-enhanced learning, networked learning, Networking, open learning, politics, Possibilities, social media for learning, Syndicated, Technology
March 5, 2018

The transcript of ‘Learning Networks, Not Teaching Machines’, a keynote delivered at EDEN 2015 in Barcelona by Audrey Watters in 2015, is a good read for anyone interested in networked learning, media-enhanced learning, and the use of social media for … Continue reading →
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