The Clinical Educator Programme (CEP) that I work for has undergone quite a few changes in the last year or so and not all of these are directly related to the current pandemic. The Programme provides CPD and is an open and free resource for those clinical teachers that teach in the South East of […]

I joined a MOOC this week, to experience open learning and critically appraise it. The MOOC I joined is one of the Future Learn courses and the topic is ‘Food as Medicine’, something I have had an interest in for some time. The way the course is set up, there are 23 activities to work […]

In this article by Brown & Adler (2008), a case is made for the development of new learning based on the way the internet and society has developed. With the way society and careers have developed, the authors argue, there is a need for more, shorter and more accessible education. There are more people in […]

Looking back at my first definition of a learning space, it is clearly a very learner centred definition, rather than a teacher’s perspective. I also didn’t really take into account the technology of my learning space which is kind of ironic considering the topic of IDEL and the way it is taught. But maybe that […]

We were asked to make an image that represents the IDEL learning space and I have chosen to make a collage with different pictures to represent the spaces that I am learning in during this course. One of the most interesting things about this, is how many spaces there are that are a significant part […]

Whilst watching this film at the weekend with my family, I realised how well it fits into the theme of week 6 and 7 of the IDEL course. The idea of a fluid learning space is portrayed in its most hyperbolic form: travelling in space and time. The idea that our learning space is fluid […]

One of the activities for this week was to create a learning space on Minecraft, which was a nice challenge as I had never used Minecraft before. I really enjoyed building a learning space within Minecraft, since the possibilities are almost endless. I decided to make a treehouse as a learning space, for several reasons. […]

Jupiter Artland is a park near Edinburgh where contemporary art is shown in an outside space that the visitors can walk through. The spaces are chosen by the invited artists and so the setting within the park also has a significance, not just the artwork itself. (Flint et al. 2018) In the article under discussion […]

My definition of learning space is quite broad; I think it can be anywhere the learner is. After reading an article during this course, I find it very helpful to step away from it and let the knowledge percolate for a while, I usually do this by going for a run or a walk or […]

Thinking about a ‘teacherbot’ like the one that was described in Bayne’s article (Bayne 2015), has made me realize there are many different angles that need to be looked at. What would the use of such a bot mean for the job of the teacher? Would this type of educational technology be seen as contact? […]