community of practice

Ed tech must reads: column #44

AI, CMM, community of practice, innovation, pedagogy by Colin Simpson

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 #42

behaviour, CMM, communication, community of practice, influencer, learning space by Colin Simpson

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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Thoughts on: Reconceptualising academic work as professional practice: implications for academic development (Boud & Brew, 2013)

academic developer, academic development, academics, attitudes, community of practice, education design, Education Support People, emotion, social practice theory, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

I’ve been really struggling to process my thoughts on this paper for the last week. I’ll read a few pages, furiously scribbling notes all over it, and then need to step away to deal with […]

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Thoughts on: The Herckis research in progress into barriers to TEL in Higher Ed

academics, attitudes, community of practice, education design, Education Support People by Colin Simpson

L. Herckis, personal communication, July 10, 2017 I’ve been banging on about this a bit here recently but that’s only because I’m enjoying the new perspective on this issue, which is kind of at the […]

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Thoughts on: The Dynamics of Social Practice; Chapter 6 Circuits of Reproduction (Shove et al, 2012)

academics, community of practice, competences, education design, Education Support People, feedback, monitoring, social practice theory by Colin Simpson

This chapter seemed to take forever to work through, possibly because a bit of life stuff came up in the interim but it’s also at the more complex end of the discussion. It concludes the […]

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Thoughts on: The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday life and how it changes – Chapter 4 (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, 2012)

academics, activity, community of practice, competences, materials, meaning, practice, SAMR, social practice theory, sociomaterial theory, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Chapter 4 of The Dynamics of Social Practice takes us from the ways that the elements of practices circulate, emerge and disappear to the people that ‘carry’ these practices and some of the reasons that […]

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Thoughts on: Exploring factors that influence adoption of e-learning within Higher Education (King & Boyatt, 2015)

academic development, academics, community of practice, discussion, ed tech, education, Education Support People, higher education, organisation, pedagogy, students, teachers, teaching, theory, tools by Colin Simpson 1 Comment on Thoughts on: Exploring factors that influence adoption of e-learning within Higher Education (King & Boyatt, 2015)

This is a big post because it is about a journal article that covers some of the core issues of my thesis in progress. I’ve spent far longer looking over, dissecting and running off on […]

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STELLAR : A project to gamify academic professional development

academic development, academics, activity, community of practice, curation, digital badges, Education Support People, edugames, game based learning, gamification, higher education by Colin Simpson

One constant in my experience as an education support person over 13 years is that generating excitement about professional development activities relating to teaching and learning can be a challenge. I don’t think this is […]

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Thoughts on: Changing perspectives: teaching and learning centres’ strategic contributions to academic development in higher education. (Holt, Palmer & Challis, 2011)

community of practice, culture, education, education design, Education Support People, higher education, organisation, professional development, Professional staff, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

As I’ve been investigating Education Support People as a theme in my lit review reading and writing this month, I came across a wealth of interesting papers by Dr Dale Holt at Deakin University. (Australia) This […]

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Research update

community of practice, conference, education, Education Support People, professional development, Professional staff by Colin Simpson

The formal “research” part of my pre-research – the literature review essentially – has gone off the rails a little in the last couple of months. I’ve been collecting things to read here and there […]

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