Colin Simpson

Ed tech must reads: column #47

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 9th August 2022 Raising student engagement using digital nudges tailored to students’ motivation and perceived ability levels from the British Journal of Educational Technology Using ‘nudges’ to influence behaviour […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #46

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 2nd August 2022 How to make your teaching more interesting from Times Higher Education The digital age has made it hard to be bored, with entertaining stimuli everywhere. This […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #45

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 26th July 2022 Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities from International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Open Access) For all […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #44

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 19th July 2022 Some thoughts on ‘home’ pages for individuals within communities (and social networks) from Open Thinkering One of the more common concerns raised in discussion of online […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #43

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 12th July 2022 Interactive 360° video stories from 360ViSi The ability of video to place learners in locations that it would otherwise be difficult or dangerous for them to […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #42

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 5th July 2022 Flexible learning spaces or flexible learning places? from Peter Goodyear (Twitter) Universities have long needed to consider the practical affordances of venues for learning and teaching […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #41

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 28th June 2022 University Administrators Views on the Outsourcing of Online Learning from Evan Silberman (Thesis) Adding to the excellent CMM feature story from Gilmore and Nguyen about Online […]

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Scanning the language learning landscape – English Australia ed-tech symposium presentation

Based on my CMM fame (infamy?), I’ve been invited to present a plenary session at the current English Australia ed-tech SIG symposium. I’m not an English teacher but hopefully my brief magpie like exploration of […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #40

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 21st June 2022 Digital transformation is human transformation from Greg Satell (Medium) It’s nice to read an article about digital transformation that doesn’t include phrases like ‘in this time […]

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Research update #63: Where to put theory in the thesis

Hi everyone with an interest in Research – I’ve spent a few days poring over theses related to edvisor themes trying to work out how people talk about theory (and methods) and where they actually […]

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