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Research project: student’s digital identities

June 9, 2017by mandylupton Leave a comment

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 […]

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Modularised courses: The teacher becomes the student

August 16, 2016by mandylupton Leave a comment

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 […]

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modularised learning, online learning, teaching online

Sector-wide measurement of student engagement – validity for online learning

June 1, 2016by mandylupton Leave a comment

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 […]

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online learning, student engagement

Developing students’ digital identities

April 4, 2016by mandylupton 5 Comments

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, […]

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assessment, connected learning, digital identity, higher education, social media

Inquiry-based connected learning

December 16, 2015by mandylupton Leave a comment

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 […]

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connected learning, humanmooc, personalised learning, personalized learning, Uncategorized

Mindfulness, attentiveness & learning online

December 12, 2015by mandylupton 4 Comments

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 […]

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‘Education is something that we create for ourselves’: Personalized learning and connected learning

February 23, 2015by mandylupton 1 Comment

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 […]

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art of teaching, connected learning, higher education, personalised learning, personalized learning

Connected learning quadrant model

January 16, 2015by mandylupton 2 Comments

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 […]

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connected learning, higher education, teaching online

The disembodied teacher

January 12, 2015by mandylupton Leave a comment

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 […]

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art of teaching, connected learning, humanmooc, teaching online

Why I teach ‘in the wild’

November 17, 2014by mandylupton 2 Comments

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 […]

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art of teaching, assessment, higher education, social media

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