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Defining the Undefined: Adventures in Professional leadership
This post shares the experiences of one of the intrepid groups exploring the new frontier of professional leadership mentoring via a series of reflective vignettes.
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July 2022 reading activity
Welcome, everyone, to our reading for July. The TELedvisors SIG reading activity is intended to be a monthly ‘slow chat’ where you can engage with your peers and discuss a current topic related to educational technology. Each reading is openly accessible and not too long, on a topic to support our ASCILITE SIG community. Our facilitators…
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Connecting and bridging – the Third Space privilege
Photo: By Sam Sills – Forth bridges, Looking south, May 2021 At a recent TELedvisors event (@TELedvisors) there were thought-provoking presentations by Diane Nutt (@dixxyD) and Emily McIntosh (@emilythemac) on the concept of integrated practise, and how it can enable positive change. What do we mean by integrated practise? There are many different names for…
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Lesson learned: Designing a virtual symposium
COVID-19 has necessitated a shift to online models for a number of activities that were previously facilitated face-to-face (F2F) or through physical presence and interaction. Education is a key area undergoing a shift, but moving learning activities online is not directly transferable or equivalent to F2F and what worked before won’t necessarily work in the same way. As such, it forces a shift in thinking, pedagogical practice…
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A Model to ‘Create’ Capability: during a Crisis and Beyond
CREATE comprises three phases: Identifying participants’ specific challenges within their Current Realities, Exploring Alternatives to resolve those challenges and Tapping Energy to win the commitment of participants’ in resolving those challenges.
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Founder Interview: Retention and Scaling Quality Interaction 2/2
ClassCom is solving 3 key problems: Teaching Assistant, Personalised Learning Experiences, and Community Building
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Founder Interview: Retention and Scaling Quality Interaction 1/2
It is harder to engage and create a sense of belonging and learning in online modes due to a lack of human interaction
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Building capability in a time of crisis
Empathy is a necessary first step that draws us all into the reality of the student, and draws the reality of the student into the classroom
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The Dramedy
At the ASCILITE 2019 conference we banded together to write a dramedy. We felt that this form of writing would allow us to show ‘uncomfortable truths’ (David Jones, Tweet) for real dramas. The abstract (AKA ‘The plan’): The processes that universities use to implement new technologies for learning and teaching, research and administration have been…
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What’s in a Name Part 2: Digital Learning Engineers
Following on from What’s in a Name Part 1: Learning Designers This blog post is structured as Frequently Asked Questions and Responses, from the author’s perspective. These responses are informed by the authors’ 25+ years of experience as an academic in two countries, her PhD and research in education, her role as Director of central learning and teaching units across…
