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Ed tech must reads: column #63

Accessibility, AI, ASCILITE, CMM, competences, conference, digital literacy, Digital transformation (Dx), ed tech, ed tech implementation, edtech, education design, Education Support People, Education Technologist, employability, engagement, higher education, Instructional Designer, learning designer, mobile learning, online learning, pedagogy, students, usability, UX by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail 6th Dec 2022 Good morning colleagues, this is a special edition of the ed tech reads column, coming to you “live” from the ASCILITE 2022 conference in beautiful Sydney. […]

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Ed tech must reads: column #45

academic development, AR/VR/XR, CMM, Education Support People, Education Technologist, edvisor, impact, Instructional Designer, learning designer by Colin Simpson

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 10

CMM, edtech, education design, Education Support People, LMS, teaching by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail, 19th October 2021 Watch Party Lectures: Synchronous Delivery of Asynchronous Material from Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education Something that I’ve noticed recently in online conferences is an […]

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Thoughts on Who Chooses What Ed Tech to Buy for the College Classroom? Jenae Cohn – Chronicle of Higher Education

ed tech, edtech, Education Support People, Education Technologist, higher education, organisation, technologist by Colin Simpson

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-chooses-what-ed-tech-to-buy-for-the-college-classroom Given my job and my interests, I probably spend more time than most people thinking about how educational institutions implement educational technologies. This is not something that gets much coverage at all in research […]

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Research update #51: Been a long time Been a long time Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time*

academic developer, academic development, attitudes, benchmarking, change, education design, Education Support People, edvisor, higher education, management, organisation by Colin Simpson

Actually it hasn’t been that lonely at all, life is pretty good on that front, but it certainly has been a long time since I last posted here – coming up to 3 months. So […]

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Research update #38: Proposal writing Day 2 – more on edvisors, less on edvisors & institutions

academic developer, attitudes, education design, Education Support People, edvisor, PhD, writing by Colin Simpson

I’m kind of just staring at the screen now with 27 different tabs open across two browsers so I guess it’s time to take a mental break at the very least. Going by my schedule, […]

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Research update #37: Proposal writing Day 1 – Edvisors lit review

academic developer, Education Support People, edvisor, Professional staff, TEL edvisors, TELT advisors, writing by Colin Simpson

I’ve booked in two weeks leave from work to get at least a first draft of my thesis proposal together. There’s a loose structure in place and I’m all about just getting the words down […]

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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: Academic developers as change agents: Caught in the Middle (Hicks, 2005)

academic developer, academic development, academics, Education Support People, higher education, institution, management by Colin Simpson

Maybe it’s just a happy coincidence but I picked up a paper that I’d made a note to read in full after skimming it a while back and I don’t think I could’ve found something that […]

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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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