Ed tech must reads: Column #29
First published in Campus Morning Mail 5th April 2022 Zoom and Room: Hidden labour from Lawrie : converged Sometimes the problem with doing a job well is that few people see how much effort is […]
Colin Simpson
Ed tech must reads: Column #28
First published in Campus Morning Mail 29nd March 2022 The value of a Weekly Preview Video from Teaching@Sydney As Zoom continues to lower barriers to using video in education, more and more educators are normalising […]
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Ed tech must reads: Column #27
First published in Campus Morning Mail 22nd March 2022 Proof points: college students often don’t know when they’re learning from The Hechinger Report Lurking in the background of discussions about student evaluations of teaching and […]
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Thoughts on: Papers citing Whitchurch on the Third Space in HE
This is mostly just to capture my brief notes on works of interest with a focus on the Third Space in Higher Education that have drawn on the work of Celia Whitchurch (2008, 2009, 2010, […]
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Thoughts on: Focus on Methodology: Eliciting rich data: A practical approach to writing semi-structured interview schedules (Bearman, 2019)
Well that’s a lot of colons. This is just a quick post but I found this paper really insightful and accessible and wanted to share it. In a nutshell, Bearman lays out some sensible practical […]
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Thoughts on: Davide Nicolini – The practice turn as an invitation to a common inquiry (2014 lecture)
Nicolini has been recommended to me for some time as someone with a practical grasp of “practice theory” (he makes the point that this isn’t really a theory at all) and this opening lecture from […]
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Thoughts on: A short guide to ontology and epistemology: Why everyone should be a critical realist (Fryer, 2020)
Six years into my PhD, you might hope that I was broadly across the various worldviews and philosophies that underpin different approaches to research. And broadly speaking I think I am. I would say that […]
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Thoughts on: Ecologies of Practices (Kemmis et al., 2014)
Thoughts on: Ecologies of Practices (Kemmis at al, 2014) After finding Kemmis and co’s work in this space in Chapter 2 kind of interesting but perhaps not exactly what I was looking for, I started […]
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Does the name of a learning & teaching unit affect staff perceptions of being understood and valued?
The always impressive Alexandra Mihai recently shared this list of Higher Ed learning and teaching support/development units on Twitter. This led me to muse on whether someone might run an analysis on what the different […]
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Thoughts on: “Many hats, one heart”: A scoping review on the professional identity of learning designers (Altena, Ng, Hinze, Poulsen & Parrish, 2019)
While I did read this when it first came out at the ASCILITE 2019 conference, I revisit it now that I’ve done my own deep dive into the activities and knowledge areas that help to […]