This online lecture, first delivered as part of a UK University PGCert for educators, reviews the concepts of pedagogy and andragogy before going on to examine the applicability of Mezirow’s transformative learning theory to professional education. It also identifies Paulo
What is missing from the UKPSF?
(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
Simplifying the Alignment of Assessment
Some recent work with programme designers in other UK institutions suggests to me that quality assurance and enhancement measures continue to be appended to the policies and practices carried out in UK HEIs rather than seeing a revitalising redesign of
Why ‘learning analytics’ is like a sewer
Back in the late northern hemisphere summer of 2013 I drafted a background paper on the differences between Educational Data Mining, Academic Analytics and Learning Analytics. Entitled ‘Adaptive Learning and Learning Analytics: a new design paradigm‘, It was intended to
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,
Version 3.0 of SOLE Toolkit released.
Version 3.0 of the SOLE Toolkit has been released on the solemodel.org website today. The toolkit is an integrated spreadsheet workbook that supports implementation a learning design based on the SOLE Model. The SOLE model advocates a holistic approach to
Update to SOLE Model reflections
I have updated the SOLE Model website with a reflection on some staff development guidance offered by London Metropolitan University on their eMatrix website. They were kind enough to list the SOLE Model as one of four models for conceptualising
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