Reflection on influences on reflection
What is reflective learning and how can one develop one’s own reflective practice and that of one’s students? These are the questions I have been considering while I have been reading the book “A...
View ArticleFree courses and online CPD resources
It’s amazing how much continuing professional development you can do for free. The web has always been a great place for sharing knowledge and expertise, and there are new ways to do this appearing...
View ArticleMoodle for workplace learning
Moodle is well-known as a virtual learning environment in schools, colleges and universities. What is perhaps less well-known is that Moodle can also be used as an online learning space within a...
View ArticleGlossaries of assessment terms
Sometimes it’s useful to compare your understanding of a term with the generally accepted definitions. Over time, too, words and phrases change their meanings or acquire new ones. Within different...
View ArticleTechnology to make lectures and presentations interactive
It’s not always easy to engage a large audience interactively in a learning session. Yet we know that active learning and engagement improves understanding, prompts reflection, provides feedback so...
View ArticleA new look for libraries?
New Library Technologies Dispense With Librarians An article caught my eye from the Wall Street Journal (this article currently free to access but may disappear behind subscription firewall). A...
View ArticlePainted caves and fingerless hands
There’s a theory that by experiencing and reading widely, particularly outside one’s own field, one can be inspired by ideas from wildly different domains and encourage innovation and problem-solving....
View ArticleWhat are Open Badges?
University of Hull 2012 – based on JISC’S ‘Susie’s Journey’ I’ve just published (on the University of Nottingham Learning Technology Blog) a really useful explanation of Open Badges, from Kirstie...
View ArticleNOOCing Nottingham – my presentation from the ALT-C conference
Nottingham’s NOOC was an online course on Perspectives on Sustainability open to all staff and students at all three campuses of the University of Nottingham. Here’s the presentation from my talk about...
View ArticleUsing SWOT analysis to evaluate sustainability strategies (Sustainability,...
In order to succeed, companies’ strategies for sustainability need to be informed by their context, aware of internal and external factors, and able to adapt with these in mind. A commonly used...
View ArticleSustainability, Society and You and more MOOCs
This November starts several new initiatives for me. Sustainability, Society and You The Sustainability, Society and You MOOC #freeonlinecourse on FutureLearn started yesterday. Six weeks of learning...
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