academic development

Ed tech must reads: column #45

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 26th July 2022 Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities from International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Open Access) For all […]

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Ed Tech must reads – column #20

First published in Campus Morning Mail 1st Feb 2022 How not to write about HyFlex or online learning from Bryan Alexander While most academic discourse follows intellectually rigorous conventions, there is one area that seems […]

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Ed Tech must reads – Column 16

First published in Campus Morning Mail on Tuesday 30th November 2021 Edtech people weekend challenge – Twitter discussion I found this stimulating discussion started by @BenPatrickWill on the weekend. “If you (hypothetically) had 15 mins […]

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Ed Tech must reads – Column 4

First published in Campus Morning Mail 7th Sept 2021 Facilitating online breakout groups from Dave Cormier Good breakout group activities online are far less common that we might hope. Often students find themselves sitting quietly […]

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Reflecting on: The Academic/Professional divide

I ran a webinar for the ASCILITE TELedvisors network on Thursday, with a focus on Academic Developers. One of the things that I’m enjoying most about the research process is the way that it lets […]

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Research update #51: Been a long time Been a long time Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time*

Actually it hasn’t been that lonely at all, life is pretty good on that front, but it certainly has been a long time since I last posted here – coming up to 3 months. So […]

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Thoughts on: Agency and stewardship in academic development: the problem of speaking truth to power (Peseta, 2014)

In some ways this is a ‘thoughts on thoughts on’ as I’m writing about Tai Peseta’s summary reflection at the end of a special issue of the International Journal of Academic Development focusing on the […]

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Can I get a method: The EdinburghX SOCRMx Social Research Methods MOOC Week #1

MOOC Week #1 question responses Making a blog post is part of the participation in the MOOC. I’m just going to put my answers here at the top so people don’t need to read the […]

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Thoughts on: Reconceptualising academic work as professional practice: implications for academic development (Boud & Brew, 2013)

I’ve been really struggling to process my thoughts on this paper for the last week. I’ll read a few pages, furiously scribbling notes all over it, and then need to step away to deal with […]

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Thoughts on: Academic developers as change agents: Caught in the Middle (Hicks, 2005)

Maybe it’s just a happy coincidence but I picked up a paper that I’d made a note to read in full after skimming it a while back and I don’t think I could’ve found something that […]

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