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Ed tech must reads: column #45

academic development, AR/VR/XR, CMM, Education Support People, Education Technologist, edvisor, impact, Instructional Designer, learning designer by Colin Simpson

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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Thoughts on: “Many hats, one heart”: A scoping review on the professional identity of learning designers (Altena, Ng, Hinze, Poulsen & Parrish, 2019)

edvisor, Instructional Designer, Learning design, learning designer by Colin Simpson

While I did read this when it first came out at the ASCILITE 2019 conference, I revisit it now that I’ve done my own deep dive into the activities and knowledge areas that help to […]

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Ed Tech must reads – Column 12

assessment, CMM, edvisor, Learning design, simulation by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail Tuesday 2nd November 2021 A heutagogical approach for the assessment of Internet Communication Technology (ICT) assignments in higher education from International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Open […]

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Research update #61: The massive data dump

Analysis, edvisor, presentation, survey, TEL edvisors by Colin Simpson

I have a reason for not having posted for a little while, for a change. I’ve been swimming in the data from my first survey, learning about statistics and stats tools and generally working to […]

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Thoughts on: The Organizational Structures of Instructional Design Teams in Higher Education: A Multiple Case Study (Drysdale, 2018) (Thesis)

edvisor, Instructional Designer, organisation, thesis by Colin Simpson

I carried on a bit about how great Uibelhoer’s thesis was recently in covering some much neglected ground and offering some new ways to think about the research I’m doing in my own one. This […]

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Thoughts on: Practicing what they preach: A case study exploring the experiences of Instructional Designers as educators of an online teaching certificate program (Uibelhoer, 2020)(Thesis)

education design, edvisor, Instructional Designer, pedagogy, thesis by Colin Simpson

Of all the theses that I’ve read recently, this one has been the most valuable – for several reasons. Chiefly, it fills a gap in several areas of the literature around edvisors relating to edvisor […]

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Thoughts on: 2020 vision: What happens next in education technology research in Australia (Thompson & Lodge, 2020)

academics, attitudes, collaboration, edvisor, research, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

The latest issue of AJET (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology) opens with an editorial from two people whose work in the space of TEL I’ve found of interest over the years – Kate Thompson (QUT) […]

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Reflecting on: The Academic/Professional divide

academic developer, academic development, academics, attitudes, edvisor, Professional staff by Colin Simpson

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*

academic developer, academic development, attitudes, benchmarking, change, education design, Education Support People, edvisor, higher education, management, organisation by Colin Simpson

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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Research update #42: Proposal writing day 6. hmm

edvisor, PhD, writing by Colin Simpson

Yeah this is really going to need a few drafts. The words and the ideas are coming out but it feels less like a review of the literature and more like I’m describing the context […]

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