(Coaching is available for direct entries for Fellowship. Contact me to discuss) The majority of academic staff in the United Kingdom will have come across the UKPSF in one form or another. It has been a benchmark for my academic
ePortfolios: for whom and wherefore
(unformed thoughts…) I’m exploring a student e-portfolio solution. I probably didn’t need to install an instance of Moodle (2.5.9) and one of Mahara (1.10.2) to know it’s a match made in heaven. It’s been fun patching the two systems together
Is Higher Education lacking its affective dimension?
[See Courses on Educational Taxonomies] Whilst the majority of writings and reflection concerning the use of taxonomies of educational objectives remain focused around the cognitive domain, typified by Bloom (1984), there is a growing attention being paid to the
Adaptation of Dave’s Psychomotor Domain
internasyonal na mga workshop / International Workshops [See Courses on Educational Taxonomies] I have received some interesting feedback and critique of my circular representation of Ravindra H. Dave’s psychomotor domain of educational objectives. I have been asked why I have
POISE Project: an institutional response to epistemological beliefs
(Extracted from a Draft Working Paper) In the belief that student success in learning requires an awareness of one’s own epistemological belief structures one recent project, the POISE project, sought to acknowledge and reinforce the diverse cultural contexts in which
Starting with Epistemological Foundations
(Extracted for a Draft Working paper) Distributed institutions face an increasing challenge to be able to afford, or deliver efficiently, the central services to meet diverse student needs. Changing contexts, notably the move towards the notion of the lifelong learner,
The research basis on which institutions respond to the case for learning support
(extracts from a draft Working Paper) Following a review of institutional websites in October 2014 it is clear that the vast majority of UK higher education institutions have explicit policy statements relating to the provision of personal tutoring (80%) with
Changing Student Demand for Tutorial Support
(Extracted from a draft working paper) One might expect this diversity in provision in Higher Education to be reflected in the personal tutoring support provided however there is remarkably little difference in the way in which support for students is
Visualisation of Educational Taxonomies
Sharing a paper today on the visualisation of educational taxonomies. I have finally got around to putting into a paper some of the blog postings, discussion, tweets and ruminations of recent years on educational taxonomies. I am always struck in
Kaupapa Māori and the Pragmatic Pill
I delivered a webinar recently on technology enhanced learning. It was a 90-minute session (possibly too long) in Adobe Connect attended by some 15 faculty. Several of the evaluation comments suggested that the first third of the webinar, dealing with