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  1. amiddlet50

    A Dependency-Autonomy model for personal and professional development planning

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    | active learning, agency, Applied Learning, authentic learning, belonging, ecology, employability, learner engagement, Personal & Professional Development Planning, Reflection, situated learning, student engagement, Syndicated, transition
    February 24, 2019
    The challenge of framing employability in relation to personal and professional development planning has been a constant consideration for the team I am leading to support an integrated view of employability in the curriculum. The natural inclination of academics, in … Continue reading →
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  2. amiddlet50

    Repositioning contact time to explain the value of education

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    | active learning, agency, agility, Autonomy, belonging, boundary crossing, challenge, co-operation, collaboration, collabotation, communities of practice, ecology, employability, engagement, identity, journey, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning environments, learning space, liminality, motivation, networked learning, People, place, placemaking, Reflection, Relationships, self-efficacy, situated learning, space, student engagement, Syndicated, time, transformation
    February 24, 2019
    I happened to mention that I worked in higher education to a women who sold me a vase in a craft shop; the sort of situation where I normally feel at ease with people I meet beyond the educational setting. … Continue reading →
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. amiddlet50

    The happy accident – accidental learning #socmedhe18

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    | 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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  6. amiddlet50

    Negotiated learning and the subject of teaching

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, authentic learning, BYOD, learner engagement, negotiated learning, scaffolding, situated learning, Syndicated, ZPD
    November 7, 2018
    What is the subject of teaching? In this post, I mull over this question, its several meanings and its implications for negotiated active learning. In my role as an educational developer with responsibilities for both staff and curriculum development, the … Continue reading →
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  7. amiddlet50

    Kitchen and studio-based learning

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    | active learning, Assessment, co-operation, collaborating, cooking, creativity, learner engagement, learning environments, learning space, peer assessment, peer mentoring, self-assessment, space, student engagement, studio-based learning, Syndicated
    September 4, 2018
    The Great British Menu is back on UK television at the moment. I am not a fan of cooking programmes – though others are in my household – so, it’s on and inevitably I get caught up in it. Assessment … Continue reading →
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  10. 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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  12. 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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  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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  14. amiddlet50

    Attitudes, dispositions and learner maturity

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    | active learning, Applied Learning, Assessment, Autonomy, challenge, engagement, feedback, formative assessment, identity, learner autonomy, learner engagement, maturity, resilience, Syndicated, transformation
    June 24, 2018
    I ran a series of workshops with an academic department last week. One of the key themes was the need to focus more on those learning outcomes that address learning and graduate capability. Our context was the challenge of engaging … Continue reading →
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  15. amiddlet50

    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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  16. amiddlet50

    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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  17. amiddlet50

    Friendship and the classroom

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    | agency, Applied Learning, belonging, BYOD, co-operation, ecology, identity, in-between, interactivity, journey, learner autonomy, learner engagement, learning ecology, learning space, liminality, place, placemaking, space, student engagement, Syndicated, Third Space, trust
    September 27, 2017
    I attended a seminar today given by my colleague Emma Heron. I was fortunate enough to mentor Emma through a year-long research project looking at the role of friendship in the student experience. It was good to catch up today … Continue reading →
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