Guidance for Educators: Post-session reflection

Guidance to Educators: Reflecting after sessions #teachers #learning #educators #education #university #tutors #lecture Visit http://www.sijen.com for transcripts and links. Please share, like and follow. Transcript: Welcome all. Please feel free to share this with colleagues. If you think they’ll find

‘Resilience’: the latest hyped up term being applied to education.

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“If you managed to cover the absences of staff successfully last semester, are you maybe just over staffed?” If you managed to move all of your learning in a frantic fortnight with minimal support, well “how hard can it be,

Guidance for Educators: From Simplicity to Complexity

Transcript: Welcome all. Please feel free to share this with any of your colleagues who you think might benefit from it. Let’s talk today about complexity and simplicity. So, I think you can save yourself an enormous amount of time

A new national vocational learning strategy. What could a Te Pūkenga Ako Strategy look like?

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Te Pūkenga (https://tepūkenga.ac.nz), the centralised vocational tertiary organisation in New Zealand created in the last two years, represents an exciting opportunity to create a new way of conceiving of the learner experience. A learning experience based on learner choice, learner

How is leadership in higher education responding to changing notions of autonomy and accountability?

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With the disruption to delivery models, timetables, and staff and student expectations in the last 18 months some institutions are struggling to maintain their faculty’s motivation and commitment. Some are wrestling with changing notions of autonomy and accountability.

University Learning and Teaching Strategies Post-Covid

University Learning and Teaching Strategies Post-Covid

One characteristic of a four to five year Learning and Teaching Strategy (LTS) is that it should require a complete re-write when it comes up for renewal. Given the inevitable pace of change, any remotely ambitious strategy is likely to

Is the Future of Education Inevitably Going to be Digital First?

The FLANZ webinar ‘Is the Future of Education Inevitably Going to be Digital First?’, held 6th November 2020, was a conversation about how the world of higher education, in particular, has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and whether the future

Designing Pathways: which way to innovation?

We need to continue to move away from seeing tertiary education as the imparting knowledge and see it rather as developing the skill of all students to be able to decide which learning pathways best suits their context, prior experience

The student is at the centre of the educational process (Interview)

The student is at the centre of the educational process (Interview)

I have been rather busy of late, so this is a rather delayed post from an interview done in June 2020 with SRCE, the Croatian National e-Learning Centre. The Interview appears under the title “Student je središte obrazovnoga procesa”, which

How to Engage and Support Students Online: EDEN Webinar 27th April 2020

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On April 27th I had the pleasure of sharing a virtual platform with Alan Tait (Open University UK), hosted by Tim Read (UNED, Spain), for a webinar entitled ‘How to Engage and Support Students Online’. This is the EDEN (European