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A Literal Escape Room: an experiential approach to study skills
Developed by Mark Van Der Enden, Tracy Dix, and Alex Patel The challenge and rationale… The problem with ‘study skills’ workshops are that, typically, they are boring, generic and students feel they have little relevance to them (Lea and Street, 2006; Rooney, 2016). In fact, it takes a GREAT deal of time, effort and expertise […]
ALT-C 2017 thoughts: What is the value of anonymity in learning? Should we be using learning analytics and will they create “filter bubbles”?
Digital information gathering is everywhere – it’s collection is hidden behind the T and C check box for every platform registration, and is gathered when students use their Virtual Learning Environments. There’s an assumption that having student information is a good thing; we just need to work out what to do with it. […]
How can we support digital literacies? My take-home thoughts form attending the JISC Digital Capability Community Launch
Taken from :https://storify.com/Jisc/digital-capability-community-launch [10/05/2017] Stephen Walker, Frances Deepwell, Neil Donahue, Sarah Whittaker, Nevin Moledina and I attended a JISC event to develop a group interested in developing institutional digital capabilities. We had some interesting discussions and ideas around why we should think about digital “stuff”, and how staff and students can be supported in […]
Equality and diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning
A recent LLI meeting reflecting on how we could apply the University wide Equality and Diversity training to our teaching, revealed a strong connection to criticality. To critically question the assumptions, viewpoints, power dynamics and other issues that we hold to be the accepted norm can cause us to challenge barriers around race, gender, sexual […]
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