Workshop review: ‘Innovating Pedagogy 2022’

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Thursday 8th September I had the privilege of running an online workshop for FLANZ  to explore the potential of a range of different pedagogical approaches that might apply to different educational sectors in New Zealand and Australia. See Transcript The

The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is not from ‘essay mills’ but from Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is no longer from ‘essay mills’ and contract cheating but from Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not so long ago that academics complained that essay mills, ‘contract cheating’ services, and commercial companies

Psychomotor skills should be at the core of all learning

Psychomotor skills should be at the core of all learning

Any learning design framework that does not address the psychomotor skills is not worth exploring. There is not a single discipline taught in any formal, non-formal or informal way that does not make use of some tool or technology, instrument

do-not-reply@: the inefficiencies of email use demonstrated by graduates

do-not-reply@: the inefficiencies of email use demonstrated by graduates

Graduates, and their colleagues, born after 1970 are unlikely to have worked in a context in which email was not a primary communication tool. Its inefficiency is manifest but often overlooked.

How do you define hybrid, or hyflex, learning?

How do you define hybrid, or hyflex, learning?

I struggled recently to define hybrid learning to a client. They asked how they could go about creating ‘hybrid learning’ for their learners. A reasonable question? There appears to be some confusion, in practice and in the literature, as to

Very Brief Overview of ‘Innovating Pedagogy 2022’

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This very brief summary is in no way to be taken as a substitute for reading the full report, or indeed the Executive Summary, which is available here: Innovating Pedagogy 2022 This is the 10th annual report exploring new forms in

Teaching about existential threats: why we need to teach concepts, not just facts.

Teaching about existential threats: why we need to teach concepts, not just facts.

It has now been more than four months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and I have been thinking how badly we need to be teaching about existential threats. I think we need to develop a curriculum that is open to contemporary real world challenges.

Flexible Learning requires portfolio-centred course design.

Flexible Learning requires portfolio-centred course design.

ePortfolios, and indeed their analogue counterparts, allow learners to make selections of educational evidence, bring them together so that the learner self-manages their reflections, progress and learning journey. They can also be used as tools for storing and sharing assessment,

Taxonomies of Educational Outcomes

Delighted to share an interactive walk-through of the recently updated poster (available here). Click in the top right-hand corner to make the interactive fullscreen. There is also a video walk-through of the same poster below. Note the title of the

In-Class Evaluation (Guidance for Educators)

Transcript: Welcome all. Please feel free to share this with your colleagues, if you think they’ll find this of interest.  I want to talk today about why it’s important that we listen to our students during our teaching practice. I