July 2017

Research update #27: The reframe

Just a quick note this time about the rather helpful feedback that I got from my supervisors about my evolved research question. I was considering something like: How do and should edvisors in H.E. ensure […]

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Research update #26: The reboot

Here’s this week’s Pat Thomson inspired PhD journal topic: I have learnt since starting the PhD that… I need to rethink my approach and be a little more realistic in my planning. This is the […]

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Thoughts on: The Herckis research in progress into barriers to TEL in Higher Ed

L. Herckis, personal communication, July 10, 2017 I’ve been banging on about this a bit here recently but that’s only because I’m enjoying the new perspective on this issue, which is kind of at the […]

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Research update #25: getting on with it

Drawing once more from the Pat Thomson well – “the key thing I have to remember is” that perfect is the enemy of the good I really enjoy preparing things, getting all my ducks lined […]

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Research update #24: The community

I mentioned recently that I’d come across some interesting anthropological research suggesting that the key reason that academics rarely innovate their teaching is fear of looking foolish in front of their students. There was a whole […]

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Building rapport between Educational Developers and Academics/Teachers

Our colleagues in the great white north – the Canadian Educational Developers Caucus – have produced a rich looking guide to building rapport between ed developers and academics/teachers. I haven’t had a chance to dig […]

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Research update #23 – The ‘troublemaker’

I went to a cross institute training thing last week and for some reason we did an icebreaker exercise where we had to introduce the person that we were sitting next to to the room. […]

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Selected tweets and notes from HERDSA 2017

Here’s a Storify that I created from tweets I made at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference in Sydney last week. This is slightly scattered – in addition to notes […]

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