Learning Technology

Teaching for excellence: Excellence in teaching

2009-12-13T20:55:46Z

Image source Earlier this year at the eFest meets Teaching and Learning Conference (hosted at UCOL), I was privileged to take part in the conference wrap up led by Lisa Emerson (Ako Aotearoa) - "Teaching for excellence: Excellence in teaching"...

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ePortfolios: Recognition of Prior Learning and Communities of Practice

2009-12-13T04:16:02Z

Image source At the recent ePortfolio Symposium hosted in Melbourne and organised by Allison Miller of the Flexible Learning Framework, there was a great range of practical tips, and thought provoking presentations. The blurb from the site adv...

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ePortfolio platforms: Pros and cons

2009-12-13T03:43:53Z

Image source I was recently at an ePortfolio symposium in Australia, organised by Allison Miller. The first evening a number of ePortfolio platforms were showcased, and these are the notes, reflections and thoughts I recorded during the sessio...

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Information literacy skills - disipline-specific, online tutorials

2009-11-09T22:07:06Z

Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikesansone/2606565992/ You might like to check out these online, discipline-specific tutorials from the 'Virtual Training Suite'. The blurb on the site describes them as "a set of free Internet tutori...

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Laptops in the Classroom - fundamental questions

2009-11-06T04:09:09Z

The other day, two colleagues asked if I knew of any videos of sound practice around students using laptops in the classroom. Actually, there appears to be a dearth of such material. I have some word pictures I could paint around the experience I...

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Pedagogy, Policing or Preventing Plagiarism? Experiences with facilitating Professional Development

2009-10-30T04:01:51Z

This was a paper Vickel Narayan and I presented at the eFest meets Teaching & Learning conference, UCOL 2009. It was an interesting experience at a vibrant conference. A time for firsts, it was Vickel's first time to present and write an academi...

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The Web: End of the classroom era?

2009-10-01T01:32:12Z

The “The Web: End of the classroom era?” debate today at the eFest meets Teaching and Learning Conference, was well-attended. Initially the rules around the debate were established: panel of 6 people, 3 affirmative (in agreement with the stateme...

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Talent development

2009-09-30T21:35:56Z

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all” Michelangelo This post describes a session given by Colin Cox at the eFest meets Teaching and Learning 2009 on October 1st 2009. It focussed on t...

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Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-based Learning

2009-09-30T07:43:42Z

Not only are the conversations on the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-based Learning (AAEEBL) site lively, but there are some great resources being shared that members have developed. For example, this list of resources around...

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Evaluating feedback and collaborating at conferences

2009-09-16T00:27:15Z

Image source (full size image available) Bettina Schwenger and I recently presented at The student experience: HERDSA 2009 in Darwin. As part of the presentation we asked participants to add details to the mindmap pictured below - the original...

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