Academic Development, Faculty Development, Hochschuldidaktik, Play and Creativity in Higher Education, SoTL
So I am currently undertaking a bit of background reading around Scholarship (scholarly activities aka scholarship sans publication) and SoTL. AdvanceHE put forward in their recommendation: SoTL needs to be discussed and made explicit as a concept to generate some institutional consensus on its usefulness to enhance practices’ (p.8) Fanghanel, J., Pritchard, J., Potter, J., … Continue reading SoTL is not a Concept
Planting a tree is purposeful engagement; putting my winter rosemary into a bigger pot because it became pot-bound is an act of caring. I am pausing to observe the robin curiously observing me. The air is still chilly, and the winged ethnographer quickly loses interest in his subject. Working in my garden is an act of self-care and an act of deep work. Continue reading Working in the garden
A reflective poem I am becoming evermoreMaturePatientWiserResilientOlderComplexDeeperQuirkierRiskierFunnierCompliantCategoricalUnconsciously professional And that’s just on a Monday. If you are not prepared to be challenged, to question your believes and assumptions, you are in danger. The classroom is not a safe space for a fixed mindset. Continue reading The autopoietic lecturer: a poem
The lovely people from the #ALT Winter Conference have already uploaded the recordings from our sessions yesterday. #disruptivepedagogies #activelearning #edtech #storytelling Continue reading ALT Winter Conference–Our Recorded Session
In this presentation we are sharing how we engaged participants in the PGCap Programme with using Active Learning Technologies. Some of the participants allowed us to share their digital artefacts with you. Continue reading Enabling Academic Staff to Engage with Disruptive Pedagogies Using Active Learning Technologies
Today Vicki @vhmdale and I are presenting our active learning model at the ALT Winterconference. This is the first presentation. Continue reading Creating a Story about Space and Place
Originally posted on #LTHEchat:
Active Learning and Disruptive Pedagogies In this #LTHEChat, we would like to explore the disruptive potential of active learning. It is probably easier to define what active learning is not, than what it is. While a concise definition for active learning remains elusive, during our Active Learning course, we have bought into Kovbasyuk and Blessinger’s (2013) ‘vision of education’ as an ‘open meaning-making process’; the interaction between the teacher, student and… Continue reading Active Learning and Christmas Festivities
This week I was teaching a couple of research workshops, one about undertaking ethnographic research. This is the acompanying blog post, focussing on one of the key themes and points for debate in ethnography: time–time spend conducting fieldwork. #ethnography #SoTL
#research #education Continue reading Meaningful time and Ethnography
So we are creating podcasts now. This one we talk about preparing for the new semester and coping with workload https://youtu.be/OI7Uu6LBTmw Continue reading First Podcast
To start you off on this path for reflection: this is how learning sometimes feels to me and often in exactly the moment the tracks disappear there is breakthrough. More to follow this is just to get back into writing. The little film is the introduction to a session for our active learning course, introducing … Continue reading What is active learning?
I want to use virtual exhibition for my students to showcase the artifacts they develop throughout the semester. There are some OER platforms out there we could experiment with. However, GDPR and accessibility (and well design) demand the use of institution approved software. We (students and staff) all have the Office 365 suit and some … Continue reading On the quest for a virtual exhibition platform
Dr N Tasler & Dr VHM Dale Story-Telling How to tell a story? So one of the things I want to achieve, but not entirely sure yet how to, is to make sure the new course my fabulous colleague Dr Vicki Dale and I develop has a story. It is coherent. I know we are … Continue reading Curriculum Development and Storytelling
When you stuff your brain glutinously with ideas and paradoxes that push you into cognitive dissonance trying to come up with a story and there is no anti-acid—or granny’s really expensive gentian-schnapps—that can help the brain to break the thought-food down as it does with overeating during the holidays, then what do you do? Mind-Map? … Continue reading Thinking Thoughts
If it doesn’t work pull the plug I experimented with writing for 30 days in a row and see what happens’ based on articles like this one by Glen Allsopp. However, it doesn’t work. Maybe it works for keeping the notes to yourself until they are ready to be shared. But it doesn’t work for … Continue reading If it doesn’t work…
Meetings of death Good gracious … we have so many meetings at the moment that I barely manage to get my lunch-break. If I take lunch-break I won’t answer emails, or I answer them during the meetings, or in the evenings. I am currently trying the not working in the evenings or on weekends thing … Continue reading A cuppa: the holy grail of meetings
Nathalie Tasler, PhD, SFHEA, MPhil, PGDip CCM, PGCert LTHE 