You are traffic
Reading Time: < 1 minutes ‘Can subtitles be turned off? They get in the way of the text on the slides.’ How we think about things, depends on our perspective: what do we think is the priority, what is getting in the way ? There …
Tag: 2020
Temporal flexibility in the digital university: full-time, part-time, flexitime (Sheail)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Though there are so many things one could mention, I am just going to highlight one aspect that stuck a chord with me. When reading ‘Alan’s’ remarks (Sheail, 2018) about how he envisaged flexible online courses might look, I was …
The Silence of Our Friends
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pillay’s questioning of the ‘…the discipline of Psychology in general, or critical psychology in particular…’ [p.156] brought to mind this quote: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” [Martin …
The power of stickers
Reading Time: < 1 minutes There is always the risk that what you do will not be perceived as you intend or result in the outcome you intended; such is the complexity of people. When I taught science at a secondary school, my academically least …
Towards deconstructive nonalignment: A complexivist view of curriculum, teaching and learning (Gough)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Gough (2013) covers some useful points on complexity, what it is, how we (in education) feel about it, how we deal with it. The paper does however lean towards strawman arguments at times. It concludes suggesting a way between the …
What is curriculum? Exploring theory and practice (Smith)
Reading Time: 1 minute The views on curriculum theory have changed, as the view on the purpose of education has changed. This very readable paper, takes us through definitions of curriculum through the ages, their influences and the possible impacts of their adoption on …
Emotion in Learning Experience Design (Clark)
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I was intrigued by this blog post (opens in a new window) based on the authors reading of works by Norman and Kahneman & Patrick (see below). The authors suggests that there may be an issue as ‘…what is written …
Does it add up?
Reading Time: < 1 minutes There is a belief (I’m calling it that because I don’t think it is backed up by anything) that the test of your ability at maths, is your ability to do mental maths. This still exists and where held, affects …
Do you recognise any theoretical influences on courses you have taken yourself or are involved in teaching or supporting?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Using Selwyn (2017), I considered the courses I had taken over the years. I struggled to find whole courses as examples, which were much more likely to be made of a combination of approaches, depending on the activity. Nevertheless, here’s …
What does ‘course’ mean to you?
Reading Time: < 1 minutes This is my current definition: A sequenced collection of activities, with start and end points, that collectively support advancing in some knowledge and/or skill. Sequence – may be linear, spiral, branching, etc.; it may be chosen by the student, by …
