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    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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    Education as a liminal state

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    | active learning, anxiety, boundaries, boundary crossing, Digital Placemaking, discovery, home, hybrid learning space, in-between, innovation, Learning Space and Place, liminality, networked learning, non-formal learning, polycontextuality, ritual, self-determination, stretch, sublime, Syndicated, threshold concepts
    September 18, 2021
    I have been reading Thomassen’s (2014) ‘Liminality and the modern: living through the in-between’. Liminality comes up in my work on a daily basis, whether I am thinking about the connections we make through models of hybrid learning, interdisciplinary learning, … Continue reading ?
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    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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    Playing with time and crossing boundaries: multichronicity #activelearning

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    | #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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    Lifewide learning domains: rich intersections or contested spaces

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    | ambiguity, Assessment, belonging, boundary crossing, connections, Digital Placemaking, domains, education, experiential learning, family, friendship, incidental learning, intersections, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, lifewide learning, lockdown, map, mapping, non-formal learning, ontology, pandemic, Personal & Professional Development Planning, place, polycontextuality, psychogeography, Reflection, Scholarship and Research, social media for learning, socialisation, space, Syndicated, third place, Third Space, walking
    February 6, 2021
    I noted in my previous post on mapping our learning that I would be engaging in the collaborative inquiry ‘Towards a Better Understanding of Our Own Learning Lives’ led by Norman Jackson, Rob Ward and Jenny Willis. I have just about … Continue reading ?
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    Learning Spaces Iceberg

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    | 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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    Being part of something – having a sense of presence #activelearning

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    | active learning, agency, authentic learning, being, belonging, co-operation, community, Digital Placemaking, embodiment, enactment, feedback, identity, learner engagement, learning culture, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, Presence, Reflection, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated, teacher presence
    October 24, 2020
    The idea of ‘being’ is about presence and is central to an active learning philosophy. It reflects two things: personal identity and social presence in the learning environment. Lehman and Conceicao (2010) describe this as ‘being there’ and ‘being together’. … Continue reading ?
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    The problem with communities… a consideration of alternatives

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    | active learning, affinity spaces, assemblage theory, belonging, Co-operative pedagogy, communities of practice, creativity, Digital Placemaking, ecology, learner engagement, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, networked authorship, networked learning, Networking, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated
    October 3, 2020
    Why do I explore ideas like being, belonging and becoming in relation to networks, but I hardly talk about communities any more? In this post I will look at why networks and affinity spaces more than communities have come to … Continue reading ?
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    Space Walk #Twalk #ALN #activelearning

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    | active learning, becoming, being, belonging, BYOD, connecting, connectivism, D3BC, Digital Placemaking, doing, identity, learner engagement, learning space, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk
    December 19, 2019
    Active Learning Network – Space Walk 16 January 2020, 16:00 – 18:00 GMT Our Active Learning Network satellite group will be taking part in a Space Walk at Anglia Ruskin University and we hope others in the sector will join … Continue reading →
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    Universal design and #activelearning

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    | active learning, challenge, Co-operative pedagogy, Digital Placemaking, equity, failure, learner engagement, learning space, motivation, navigation, negotiation, PhD, self-direction, stretch, student-centred learning, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, universal design
    November 3, 2019
    Following on from the previous post on Decolonising the active curriculum, this post looks more closely at some of the seven principles of universal design to explore how they can inform the active learning space – its pedagogy and physical-digital … Continue reading →
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    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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    Polycontextuality, spheres and headphones

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

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    | 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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    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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    Walks as Learning Space

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    | active learning, Activity, co-operative learning, Co-operative pedagogy, conversation, creativity, deep learning, Digital Placemaking, group work, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, narrative, storytelling, Syndicated, walk, walking
    April 30, 2019
    Learning walks exemplify conversational learning spaces. In this post I reflect on how I designed the learning walk I conducted today for the University of Sheffield’s Faculty of Social Sciences Learning Spaces Group which I am mentoring as they plan … Continue reading →
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    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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    Doing, Being, Becoming, Belonging & Connecting #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, becoming, being, belonging, connecting, Connectionism, Constructivism, Digital Placemaking, doing, experiential learning, learner engagement, learning pace, learning space, Literacies and intelligence, Personal & Professional Development Planning, Reflection, self-efficacy, situated learning, social constructivism, social media for learning, space, Syndicated
    March 23, 2019
    The Twalk next week (27th March 2019) at 1-2pm UK time, has the theme of Doing, Being, Belonging, Becoming and Connecting – the role of learning space, This post provides a little explanation of each of those keywords. Doing A focus … Continue reading →
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    Twalking back to happiness #twalk #spacetwalkLeeds

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    | 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

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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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    The tweet is the new photograph

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    | agency, Digital Placemaking, Instagram, Literacies and intelligence, mediation, photo, photography, Possibilities, Snapchat, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated, tweet, twitter
    July 15, 2018
    I am reading Susan Sontag’s seminal book On Photography from 1977. It’s interesting reading the book in an age where the act of photographing the world has exploded beyond what Sontag could have imagined – even though her critique of … Continue reading →
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    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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    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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    Global #Twalkday

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    | 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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    #minitwalk demonstrates the flexibility of the #twalk model at #socmedhe17

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    | #socmedhe17, active learning, collaborating, CPD, Digital Placemaking, event, innovation, learning space, place, placemaking, Possibilities, sm4l, smart devices, social, Social Media, social media for learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, technique, twalk, tweetchat, twitter, walk, walking
    February 22, 2018
        Since our first successful use of the #twalk model in May 2017, a number of #twalks have used the model in different situations. Our experience and understanding of the #twalk is growing. A number of us involved in … Continue reading →
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    Place is our starting point

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    | active learning, being, belonging, Digital Placemaking, learning space, place, placemaking, Possibilities, Social Media, social media for learning, space, studio for all, studio-based learning, Syndicated, twalk, walking
    January 1, 2018
    “In Aristotle …we have a very powerful philosophy of place as the starting point for all other forms of existence.” (Cresswell, 2009, p. 2) This year will see the publication of my book Reimagining Spaces for Learning in Higher Education. … Continue reading →
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    Twalking as digital placemaking #twalk #socmedhe17

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    | active learning, BYOD, Digital Placemaking, learning space, MELSIG, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, walk, walking
    December 16, 2017
    This 10 minute screencast introduces the key ideas of the twalk concept – learning walks with integrated tweetchats – and the pedagogic rationale underpinning walking, talking, tweeting and thinking. The video is part of the Twalk Toolkit being developed on … Continue reading →
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