Tag: constructivism

I enjoyed reading (January)

Jan 31, 2013

in Note

apartheid schooling, authentic learning, complexity theory, constructivism, cormier, earth as art, electronic medical record, health records, kozol, medical records, nasa, objectivism, positivism, rhizomatic learning, shame of the nation

Constructivism in the shadow of a dead god (Michael Potter). Potter discusses how academics have dismissed positivism and objectivism only on a superficial level and these concepts are alive and well in the language, course outlines and physical structures of universities. We won’t be able to truly embrace ideas like social constructivism until we start…
Constructive alignment workshop

Sep 17, 2010

in Assessment, Education, Learning, PhD

constructive alignment, constructivism, Delphi, James Garraway, john biggs, lecturer, Level, structure of observed learning outcomes, teacher

Constructive alignment workshop – Dr. James Garraway I attended a workshop this morning looking at constructive alignment, with the view to relating it to the work I’ll be doing on my PhD next year. The second of my objectives is to do an analysis of our undergraduate curriculum and then do a Delphi study evaluating…
Posted to Diigo 02/18/2010

Feb 19, 2010

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accreditation, collaborative learning, constructivism, educause, higher education, just in time learning, narrative of coherence, pedagogy, research, social learning, teacher roles, teaching and learning

Main Articles: ‘A Research Revolution: The Impact of Digital Technologies ‘, Ariadne Issue 62 The impact of digital tools on conducting research in new ways tags: education, research, technology, digital Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE we need to toss out the old industrial model of pedagogy (how learning is accomplished)…
Some activity at last

Feb 13, 2009

in Social media

academic earth, constructivism, eduspaces, elgg, ning, online repository, open research, openphysio, paediatric assignment, pedagogy, research, slideshare, social learning, social media, social media platform, social networking platform, twitter, video

It’s been a pretty busy morning so far, catching up on all the feeds that I’ve neglected over the past month or so. Here’s a list of a few things I found that might be interesting to you. Found Academic Earth, an online repository of video lectures by international scholars, which could be a useful…

Tag: constructivism

I enjoyed reading (January)

Constructive alignment workshop

Posted to Diigo 02/18/2010

Some activity at last