Colin Simpson

Ed tech must reads: column #25

First published in Campus Morning Mail 8th March 2022 Student evaluations place unfair and harmful expectations on women university teachers… from Australian Journal of Political Science (via Twitter) Few will be surprised to hear that […]

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Ed tech must reads: Column #24

First published in Campus Morning Mail 1st March 2022 A strategic reset: micro-credentials for higher education leaders from Smart Learning Environments Not to brag but I was advocating for micro-credentials/digital badges more than a decade […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #23

First published in Campus Morning Mail 22nd Feb 2022 Academic Writing Analytics (AWA) Project from UTS Connected Intelligence Centre As student cohorts and lecturer workloads get larger, automating feedback on student writing has become increasingly […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #22

First published in Campus Morning Mail 15th Feb 2022 Second Life vs the Metaverse from Drew Harry The hype continues to grow around the Metaverse, the coming virtual work/play space that Gartner claims 25% of […]

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Ed Tech must reads: Column #21

First published in Campus Morning Mail 8th Feb 2022 Course Hero, Ed-Tech Company, Hires Ed-Tech Critic from Inside Higher Ed Ed Tech Twitter has been, well, all atwitter in the last week over the news […]

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Ed Tech must reads – column #20

First published in Campus Morning Mail 1st Feb 2022 How not to write about HyFlex or online learning from Bryan Alexander While most academic discourse follows intellectually rigorous conventions, there is one area that seems […]

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Thoughts on: Praxis, Practice and Practice Architectures (Kemmis, 2014)

It’s been a while since I’ve dived into the literature but now that I’ve analysed my pilot survey data and have made some sense of it, it feels as though theory might make a little […]

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Ed Tech must reads – Column 19

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 25th Jan 2022 Vignette – Blogs for cogs from Lexi Keeton While there is a lot of discussion about replicating face to face learning in the online environment, this […]

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Research update #62 – The importance of faculty/central

I haven’t posted one of these for a while but the work has been rolling along. In the last month I’ve written ~25k words of analysis on two questions (two big questions) in my pilot […]

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Ed Tech must reads – column 18

First published in Campus Morning Mail on 18th Jan 2022 On Reading the Syllabus: A Pedagogical Thread from Twitter (@ec_leininger) Academics often complain the students never read the unit outline, and from time to time […]

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