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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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    A Man Walked into a Bar: humour, space, self-deprecation, #activelearning

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    | #learning, active learning, case-based learning, challenge, Co-operative pedagogy, collaboration, creativity, deduction, edutainment, engagement, fun, game based learning, gamification, group work, Humour, in jokes, inclusivity, jokes, learner engagement, Performance, persona, Play, playful learning, Poetry, self-awareness, Syndicated, Teaching, tension, trust
    September 16, 2022
    In this post I explore the pedagogy of humour in the context of higher education teaching and learning and begin to realise there’s more to humour in the classroom than having a bit of fun! This was my starting point, … Continue reading ?
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    Absence of detail and the value of ambiguity in art and education

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    | #Ethics, abstract, active learning, agency, ambiguity, art, being, clarity, creativity, detail, discovery, learner engagement, learning ecologies, literalism, Music, narrative, noise, photography, Reflection, scaffolding, sculpture, space, student engagement, student-centred, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated, Teaching, walking
    September 12, 2022
    This post pulls together ideas about the value of ambiguity and space in art and education by drawing upon my diverse experiences as educator, artist, and musician. It wanders! In some ways, it is about creating room to wander. I hope you it connects with your own wanderings. Continue reading ?
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    Ritual in the learning environment

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    | acquiescence, active learning, affinity spaces, agency, being, belonging, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, collaboration, diversity, doing, habit, identity, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, liminality, non-formal learning, place, Relationships, ritual, routine, studio, Studio and Studio-based Learning, studio for all, Syndicated
    April 6, 2022
    In this post I explore what is meant by ritual in relation to the teaching and learning experience and, as we reset our post-pandemic classrooms, why we should care. Given that there is little obligation to care, beyond a notion … Continue reading ?
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    Curiosity – untapping latent energy

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    | active learning, agency, case-based learning, challenge, course design, course-focussed practice, critical thinking, curiosity, decision-based learning, deduction, deductive reasoning, deep learning, desire, drive, enjoyment, exploration, flow, fragmentation, graduate capabilities, interrogation, intrigue, intrinsic motivation, Knowledge, learner engagement, Lifelong Learning, liminality, module-centric, narrative, negotiation, open-ended, passive learning, Syndicated, transition, wonder, wonderment
    November 22, 2021
    Continuing from the post ‘Sublime, curious and distracted – challenging conceptions of learning’, I want to examine curiosity towards finding strategies that can be deployed by the academic and the learner themselves to create an engaging learning environment. Surely, curiosity … Continue reading ?
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  7. amiddlet50

    Sublime, curious and distracted – challenging conceptions of learning

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    | active learning, conundrum, curiosity, curious, deviation, distraction, divergence, exploration, impulse, intrigue, intrinsic motivation, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, place, Syndicated
    November 19, 2021
    Tyson E. Lewis in ‘The Dude Abides, or Why Curiosity Is Important for Education Today’, looks at the idea of curiosity from a pedagogical perspective. He sets curiosity in stark contrast to widely held beliefs about education where blind faith … Continue reading ?
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    Unified Active Learning – our commitment to #activelearning wherever and however we access learning

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    | active learning, blended learning, challenge, Change, collaborative, design, ecosystem, hybrid learning space, identity, inclusivity, innovation, learner engagement, learning environments, Learning Space and Place, pandemic, placemaking, space, Syndicated, Teaching, UAL, unified active learning
    September 1, 2021
    I am in reflective mode – it’s summer 2021 and in the West we’re trying to get over the pandemic, catch our breath, and decide what we value, what we have done, what changes will stick. It is both a … Continue reading ?
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  9. amiddlet50

    Transparency, turbulence, ambiguity and uncertainty in #activelearning

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    | #learning, active learning, agency, art, becoming, being, belonging, challenge, clarity, co-creation, co-operation, co-operative learning, communities of practice, connecting, creativity, doing, embodiment, experience, experiential learning, formal learning, identity, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, motivation, non-formal learning, ontology, place, placemaking, Presence, scaffolding, self-efficacy, skills, space, studio, studio for all, Syndicated, Teaching, technique, Technology, tutoring
    August 30, 2021
    “One student’s safe uncertainty is another student’s chaotic nightmare.” (Orr & Shreeve, 2018) Based on research I conducted with others into student satisfaction of learning (Heaton et al., 2015), being clear with students about what is expected of them has … 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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  11. amiddlet50

    Deviation and self-determination #activelearning

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    | active learning, assemblage theory, connectivism, constellation, creativity, curiosity, deviant, deviation, digital fluency, ecology, intrinsic motivation, learner engagement, learning ecologies, Learning Space and Place, motivation, psyschogeography, self-determination, situated learning, spatial literacy, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated, wander
    August 11, 2021
    In a previous post I suggested that the art of teaching to an active learning philosophy is about creating loose structures so that each and every student has the space to bring their own knowledge, experience and imagination to their … Continue reading ?
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  12. amiddlet50

    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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  14. amiddlet50

    Fluency – standing, walking, dancing

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, balance, capabilities, creativity, curiosity, digital fluency, flency, flow, learner engagement, Learning Space and Place, Literacies and intelligence, literacy, postdigital, skills, Syndicated, walking
    February 21, 2021
    Being able to distinguish between skills, literacy and fluency is a perennial part of my job as an educational developer. This is most visible in thinking about how to communicate and engage people in conversations to do with digital capabilities, … Continue reading ?
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  15. amiddlet50

    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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  16. amiddlet50

    Mapping my learning: visualising not just being visual

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    | active learning, art, assemblage theory, Co-operative pedagogy, ecology, ecosystem, identity, learner engagement, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, map, mapping, navigation, negotiated learning, negotiation, social construction, Studio and Studio-based Learning, Syndicated, walking
    January 30, 2021
    A few posts ago I thought through some ideas about using metaphorical maps as a way of navigating learning. I want to pursue this here to discover further intersections and connections, especially as we gear up for the collaborative inquiry … Continue reading ?
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  17. amiddlet50

    Structure and memory-mapping in #activelearning

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    | 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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  18. 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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  19. amiddlet50

    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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  21. amiddlet50

    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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  22. amiddlet50

    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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  23. amiddlet50

    Curation as a pedagogy #activelearning

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    | active learning, BYOD4L, co-creation, creativity, critical literacy, curation, digital fluency, digital literacy, learner engagement, Literacies and intelligence, skills, social bookmarking, Syndicated
    September 2, 2020
    This article considers the agency of the learner in an active learning context. It considers curation as an act of making; more than taking, the learner processes artefacts to discover new knowledge. Curation is an iterative learning activity of collecting, … Continue reading ?
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    Further reflections on learning walks and the #Twalk model of #activelearning

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    | active learning, ambiguity, Co-operative pedagogy, connectivism, deviation, embodiment, group size, group work, intimacy, learner engagement, learning ecologies, learning space, learning walk, liminality, Live Briefs, motivation, multitasking, negotiated space, negotiation, networked authorship, notemaking, ownership, polycontextuality, Reflection, sandpit, self-determination, Social Media, social media for learning, stimulus, Syndicated, third place, twalk, twilight, twitter, walk, walking
    January 25, 2020
    The walk I organised for last week introduced several new ideas about the role and methods of learning walks for me. This is a very long post. I was tempted to break it down. However, I needed to get it … Continue reading →
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    Space, walking and non-verbal communications #activelearning

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    | active learning, belonging, Body Language, BYOD, Co-operative pedagogy, confrontation, conversation, empathy, incidental learning, learner engagement, learning space, learning walk, listening skills, non-formal learning, personal space, Serendipity, studio, studio-based learning, Syndicated, walking
    January 25, 2020
    Learning walks are valuable conversational spaces. They tend to be non-confrontational and, for me, epitomise co-operative learning. Not only do they feel familiar spaces exemplifying a networked paradigm as people move naturally between small groups through the course of semi-structured … Continue reading →
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  30. amiddlet50

    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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