ADE Institute Cork Ireland
Thats quite a claim for someone who has experienced as many learning and teaching conferences as I have and interviewed and learnt from 200+ thought leaders in Higher Education for our podcast programme over the years. When I was selected by Apple for the Apple Distinguished Educator’s Global Institute in Cork Ireland in July 2012 I […]
Graduate Attributes – Spin or Education?
Simon Walker is the head of the Education Development Unit (EDU) at the University of Greenwich and he had just showed us a room that looked to me like I have always imagined how the Sistine chapel would look in Rome, but we were in London and it was raining. Nothing new about that but Simon […]
Collaborative Learning … What No Lectures!
Team Based Learning: Group Work that Works from UT Austin CTL on Vimeo.Paul Gagnon is the Director of eLearning of the new Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In this podcast episode Paul talks about their innovative approach to medical education, based on the concepts of Team Based Learning which is gaining […]
The Padagogy Wheel … it’s a Bloomin’ Better Way to Teach
When I received the invitation from the new Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, I decided to completely upgrade two seminar workshops. Dr Ian Green from the School of Education here at Adelaide and I have used Padagogy101 (introduction to iPad in HE) and Padagogy201 (more advanced use for […]
Quality Feedback: It’s all about the Students
Plato in about 430 BC said that “necessity is the mother of invention”, just imagine what he would have said if he had an iPad 🙂 Well it was necessity that inspired my colleague in the eLearning Team at the University of Adelaide, Simon Smith to develop a work flow for e-assessment that brings tears […]
LAMS: Student Centric Learning Design
If you consider the “Continuum of Shift” applied to learning management systems, at one end you have a content-centric tool like Blackboard, then you find Moodle in the middle, and at the other, activity-centric, end you have LAMS (Learning Activity Management System), which is being used for interactive learning sequences and constructivist design in teaching. “LAMS is not really a LMS as such, […]
The Continuum of Shift
In 2007 I was making a joint presentation with a colleague from the USA. She introduced the concept of a continuum along which a teacher can move based on how he/she teaches. We called it the Continuum of Shift.* This concept has been a great help to me as a support person, helping teaching faculty in higher education. How […]
Images are not Illustrations they are ILMs
Learning is all about the students. Teachers need to move along a Continuum of Shift. They need to move from content-centred teaching to activity-centred and from teacher-centred to student-centred. 21st century teaching is about interactivity and student engagement. I have been working with two colleagues here at the University of Adelaide, Ms Sophie Karanicholas and […]
Education … now for something completely different
In the middle of the trip around the mainland USA visiting Universities about their graduate attributes, student experience and use of technology in learning and teaching I was able to be involved in something completely different. I headed for Miami for three days break and over the weekend to meet with 25 educators from around the world […]
A Vision for Guatemala
The above video is in Spanish but you can see the passion. From 18,000 students to 119 now eleven months later 452 …. quite a career move. Dr Ricardo Antillon now Rector (President) of Universidad San Pablo Guatemala explains why he gave up his leadership of a strong and growing university in Honduras to take […]