I’m excited to be conducting a research project building on Professor Ruth Bridgstock’s work on Connectedness Learning as part of her Graduate Employability 2.0 OLT fellowship. Below is the recruitment message […]
The last time I enrolled an online university course (that wasn’t a MOOC) was in the late 90s. So it was with great anticipation that I recently enrolled in an […]
The 2015 Australian national survey of the undergraduate student experience report was released recently. In exploring the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) website, I came across this explanation of the student […]
My university teaching is underpinned by the ways my colleagues and I work with our Master of Education coursework students to create and share digital artefacts such as blogs, websites, […]
In this post, I describe the design of a course (unit) that I’ve been teaching online for a number of years. It’s a good time for me to reflect on […]
I’ve started HumanMOOC this this week and the discussion by Kate Bowles on mindfulness and attention really resonated with me. Early in the discussion Kate says ‘mindfulness simply asks us […]
We need, first, to take charge of our own learning, and next, help others take charge of their own learning. We need to move beyond the idea that an education […]
Connected learning in higher education involves connecting learners, experts, networks and information in open systems. A rationale for connected learning in higher education is exemplified in the predictions of the […]
In the late 90s I became an online learner in a postgraduate program delivered entirely via WebCT. Those were the days of AltaVista, Netscape, Eudora, Google beta and dial-up! The […]
Several years ago I decided to eschew my University’s learning management system (LMS) to ‘teach in the wild’ using a suite of social media. This was a gradual process fuelled […]
