Tag: learning spaces

I enjoyed reading (September)

Oct 2, 2013

in Note

classroom design, inquiry-based learning, inqury learning, learning spaces, user generated content

How online learning is going to affect classroom design (Tony Bates) The important point here is that investment in new or adapted physical classroom space should be driven by decisions to change pedagogy/teaching methods. This will mean bringing together academics, IT support staff, instructional designers and staff from facilities, as well as architects and furniture…
Face-to-face as a subset of virtual learning spaces?

Feb 4, 2013

in Learning, Social media, Technology

blended learning, digital spaces, learning spaces, learning tools, virtual spaces

…educational technology is no longer a single innovation or a group of innovations but a sea change based on the awareness that face-to-face (F2F) pedagogy is a subset of the virtual learning environment — and not the other way around. I like this quote from an old post by 21st century fluency, although I’m not…
Design principles for clinical reasoning

Jan 14, 2013

in Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Technology

blended learning, capability, clinical education, clinical reasoning, critical thinking, design, design research, learning spaces, online learning, phd, physiotherapy education, principles, research

Clinical reasoning is hard to do, and even harder to facilitate in novice practitioners who lack the experience and patterns of thinking that enable them to establish conceptual relationships that are often non-trivial. Experienced clinicians have developed, over many years and many patients, a set of thinking patterns that influence the clinical decisions they make,…
TEDxStellenbosch: designing spaces

Nov 3, 2011

in Curriculum, Education, Learning, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Teaching, Technology

blended learning, city spaces, cityafrica, learning, learning spaces, phd, research, stafford massie, steve vosloo, teaching, tedxstellenbosch

A few months ago I attended TEDxStellenbosch at Spier wine farm near Stellenbosch. It was one of the better TEDx events I’ve been to during past few years and I enjoyed it immensely. During the day I re-tweeted comments from other participants, mainly as a record of speakers and the comments that resonated with me.…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-19

Sep 19, 2011

in Digest

annotum, eportfolios, game of thrones, learning spaces, ojs, open education practices, open journal systems, portfolios, reading, uct, wordpress

@edtechdev never thought about using WP, might be interesting to explore. Thanks for that # Looking for open source journal management software with “social” components. Any1 have any experience with any of these http://ow.ly/6xBD0 # @mpaskevi looking for journal management tools, want faculty journal to go open access. Any experience with any of these http://ow.ly/6xBAU…
CHEC course: teaching and learning (day 4)

Aug 25, 2011

in Teaching, Workshop

cape higher education consortium, chec, dewey, learning spaces, making meaning, mezirow, reflection, reflective practitioner, teaching and learning, teaching practice

Yesterday was the final day of the CHEC short courses on teaching and learning. While the whole module was useful, I found each day to be difficult in the sense that we were trying to cover some really big topics (e.g. reflection, educational theory, etc.) in a very limited set of time. I think that…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-01

Aug 1, 2011

in Digest

academia, british medical association, cities, city planning, cityafrica, classrooms, design, formal education, ipad apps, iphone, kevin kelly, learning spaces, legitimate peripheral participation, living spaces, medical records, mendeley, Mobile computing, mokena makena, policy, qr codes, realm, samsung galaxy, social media, stafford massie, tedxstellenbosch, working spaces

Cities Are Immortal; Companies Die http://bit.ly/pEWOmx. Masie briefly mentioned this Kelly article (I think) in his great presentation at #cityafrica # (link updated after the fact) Historic medical manuscripts go online http://ow.ly/1v9v0b # Omniscient Mobile Computing: What if Your Apps Knew Everything About Where You Are? http://ow.ly/1v9tkE. Reminded of Masie at #cityafrica # Is RT…
Posted to Diigo 08/31/2010

Aug 31, 2010

in Research

learning spaces, mendeley, open access, open science, physical spaces, publication, research, virtual spaces

Dear researcher, which side of history will you be on? | Mendeley Blog – Annotated technology is finally at a point that if we don’t use it now, then we are holding back the progress of science The dominant mode of communicating research results is through peer-reviewed literature. This dates back to more than 300…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-09

Aug 9, 2010

in Digest

academic publication, africa, Agreed RT, AMEE, android eclair, apa style, blog award site, blog to book, BP, Bruce Cohen, China, cite twitter, community of practice, congress, cop, david wiley, discourse analysis, educause review, facebook, freedom of the press, Google, htc, htc hero, http, interim assessment, ipad, Justin M. Bonzo, keynote speakers, learning spaces, Library of Congress, medical education, medium raw, online spaces, open phd, personal online spaces, phd thesis writer, research supervision, rooting android, RT, search, sharing research, social media, south africa, Stuart Stobbs, supervisors, teaching with technology, tech4africa, tedx stellenbosch, the EDUCAUSE Review, Thought Leader, twitter, Wine, write or die

RT @JaneDavis13 Good thinking points RT @gcouros: 10 ways to think about your learning space… « Fantastic http://bit.ly/cdoBZf # Started reading: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, by A. Bourdain http://amzn.to/bPLxUN # #nowlistening to The Sinner In Me by Depeche Mode from Playing The Angel. http://is.gd/e8ylL…