Case study: Sussex Downs College ‘Employability Passport’ The Employability Passport comprises a set of sixteen badges acquired via completion of a variety of tasks which are intended to demonstrate possession of transferable skills in four areas deemed to be key to working life: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and work readiness. The Employability Passport was developed […]

    Learning analytics mind map I decided to try out a mind mapping tool to summarise the key points of this week’s core readings, with a focus on how different learning analytics methods may be used to track aspects of students’ participation in online courses and inform interventions to improve participation. As well as […]

In this second HEA-related post, I would like to turn to the issue of learner diversity and discuss this with specific reference to the different ways in which online students perceive being ‘at’ university. This is an area worthy of consideration because the more awareness course designers and tutors have of these differing perceptions and […]

My intention in the next two posts is to address two of the HEA topics within the context of discussions and readings from Weeks 6 and 7 regarding the concept of ‘space’. Admittedly I have found the subject matter in this section of the course quite challengingly abstract and have observed myself retreating into “lurker” […]