Tag: pedagogy
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Weekly digest 34
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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In Beta podcast: Assessment and learning
http://inbetaphysio.com/2023/06/29/31-assessment-and-learning/ In this conversation, Ben and I had discuss the assessment process, linking it to broader themes of learning, curriculum design, and student experience. We talk about the centralisation of assessment and explore the tensions between institutional control and the autonomy of teachers. We discuss student satisfaction and the influence of risk aversion in educational…
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Link: AI Pedagogy Project
https://aipedagogy.org/ The AI Pedagogy Project (by metaLAB at Harvard) provides educators with a collection of resources in 3 parts: The project aims to encourage creative and critical engagement with AI in education through assignments and materials inspired by the humanities. There is also a collection of sample assignments (see below) from educators to spark informed…
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Evolving and disrupting disciplinary technology and pedagogical technology
People seem happy to accept that their disciplinary technologies and processes evolve and are disrupted over time, but they’re less happy to accept that their pedagogical technologies and processes need to evolve and be disrupted at the same time.
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Generative AI in higher education: Paradigm shifts in assessment – Cape Peninsula University of Technology symposium
accountability, ai, artificial intelligence, assessment, assessment concerns, assessment design, assessment paradigm, assessment task, assessment validity, faculty development, higher education, large language model, learning inference, LLM, paradigm shift, pedagogy, standard assessment paradigm, universal anything machineIn this presentation at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, I examines the impact of large language models (LLMs) on assessment practices in professional education. I critique the standard assessment paradigm and suggest that AI could reshape assessment methods. The presentation also briefly covers a faculty development framework and broader implications of AI in learning.
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Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies
For the past few years I’ve been involved in an NRF-funded research project looking at the use of emerging technologies in higher education. One of the products of that collaborative project was an edited book that has recently been published. Professor Denise Wood, one of the editors, describes the book on her blog: This edited…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-24
Materials for Students: Writing the Academic Paper: What is an academic paper? http://bit.ly/3BB8fl # Great post by Rachael Lowe on 10 principles for the future of learning http://bit.ly/I7Ikx # Tweetbomb – A Tweet To Shake The World | Singularity Hub http://bit.ly/YjJRD # Scientists’ strategic reading of research enhanced by digital tools http://bit.ly/ZDUvv # Continuing Medical…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-27
Wired Campus: David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the Effort – Chronicle.com http://tinyurl.com/mrb2cv # James Nachtwey fights XDR-TB | Video on TED.com http://bit.ly/1x8Rg9 # The Forgotten Plague – TIME http://bit.ly/Czxkt # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-20
Confidentiality within physiotherapy: perceptions and attitudes of clinical practitioners http://bit.ly/17OAXo # Teaching Commons – Scholarship of Teaching & Learning http://bit.ly/KnSy4 # Randy Bass: The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem? (Introduction) http://bit.ly/odIu7 # The Evidence on Online Education – Report saying that blended approach to learning is more successful than online alone http://bit.ly/WOWYa # Mendeley…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-22
Becoming a relational academic http://bit.ly/6IEsA # Academic Earth – The Human Brain and Muscular System, Great video lecture on anatomy (36 lectures available) http://bit.ly/mNMTp # Fascinating lectures on the nature of death, from Open Yale Courses. Plenty of other great content here http://bit.ly/E5w25 # Scholarly Teaching: A Model. Article by Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin and Prosser…
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Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 6
I know that this is all out of sync but the audio for sessions 4 and 5 aren’t up yet and I haven’t had a chance to go through the slideshows yet. Today’s session was about the actual practice of teaching, using “open” as a framework. Here are my notes: Session 6 – Open pedagogy…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05
@sharingnicely for what it’s worth, my vote goes to #mozopened in reply to sharingnicely # @reflectivelrnr Sometimes, they find you 🙂 in reply to reflectivelrnr # Just went through Alltop Twitterati (http://bit.ly/CoiAC). Are the people with the most to say the least interesting to follow? # Very excited to be participating in Mozilla open education…
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Mozilla Open Education course – Overview
cclearn, course, creative commons, education, education portal, Firefox, frank hecker, internet life, Mark Surman, mozilla, Mozilla camp Create, Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla technology, MozOpenEdCourse, oer, open content, open education, open educational resources, open licensing, open technology, p2pu, pedagogy, peer groups, peer to peer university, Peer University, philip schmidt, seminarWe had our first session of the Mozilla Open Education Course earlier this evening and it was pretty interesting. There were a few technical issues with sound but generally it was very well done. Thanks to everyone who made it possible. Here’s a few notes that I took during the session. I know the video…