First Steps into Learning & Teaching in Higher Education: 21 May - 22 June '12

Twofer — Greetings to EdMOOC & Daily Create

Cris — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:44:13 +0000

Sharon @dwrgi gave some great advice on the EdMOOC Twitter stream:

I’m sure there are many of us who feel she was tweeting directly to us.

I’ve got another bit of advice — multitask or create as many “twofers” as you can. That’s my approach and I tried it out today by completing DS 106′s Daily Createand my hello EdMOOC video in one fell swoop.

Oh, the challenge was to create a story about an everyday object.

Introduction-wise, I’m Cris and I’m teaching a brand new grad course this semester which I shall obsess completely over and so there won’t be enough hours in the day or night but I know Sharon is right and so I’m going to …

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re Furedi: The Unhappiness Principle

George Roberts — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:12:44 +0000

This is a version of a letter that I wrote to the editor of the THE, which they did not publish, further to Frank Furedi’s rant against learning outcomes.

I am the course leader for Oxford Brookes University’s Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education. We were very pleased to see that when Professor Furedi (apparently) Googled “Learning Outcomes”, Oxford Brookes University comes top of the list. It is not my intention to enter deep into argument, here. Furedi sets up, then knocks down a straw man. I suggest that the straw man is a product of – not a cause for – cynicism.

There are big problems with the creeping instrumentalism of education. But, I fail to see a problem …

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My Daily Create Roll

Cris — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:47:17 +0000

My Daily Create Roll now monopolizes the ECI 509 course trailer but I plan to gladly replace with student work soon.…

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Hanging Around with the Creatives

Cris — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:27:12 +0000

I’ve been thinking about DS 106′s Daily Create all day. Just a little place my mind wanders when I lose focus elsewhere.

Somewhere between the panic of getting my new course site ready for the final meeting with my course developer and tech guru tomorrow and making my prolific list of notes, I came up with the idea of a “twofer.” Love when that happens! So here’s my Daily Create and a graphic that works well for this, my first course blog post. I call it the “Edge of My Incompetence” graph and the theory belongs to a terrific young philosopher-playwright-actor-writer Ezra Brain.

So The Daily Create challenge #361 was to “Draw something that shows how happy you are today.” …

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