The Neoliberal ‘real’ in UK higher education
The neoliberal real is a disciplinary discourse of power and exclusion in UK higher education that universities need to resist.
Learning & Teaching
Read, Write, Blog, Reflect (Case Study)
In this case study, Roy Hanney outlines a ‘read write blog reflect’ approach, designed to improve students’ academic reading and writing skills.
In the belly of the beast: Legalism vs Epistemology & the Ethics of Self-plagiarism
I asked a genuine question about self-plagiarism and it lead to a full and frank debate which I have tried to summarise in this blog post.
Let’s not wait, let’s get on with beating the attainment gap – the time for talking is over!
How do you develop a strategy for narrowing the attainment gap, what are the challenges and how would you address them?
Get that Meeting – marketing yourself as a brand via Linkedin
Aimed at students, the video looks at the marketing funnel can help grow your network on Linkedin.
I’m (not) an academic: get me out of here!
The challenge is clear – how do we get our students reading especially given that if we want students to write well then surely they first need to read well.
Rethinking project-based learning in a changing higher education landscape: design thinking as a paradigm for media making
There appears to be a synergy between design thinking and project-based learning in media practice education that needs to be explored.
From elf shelf to abstract in several convoluted stages
The aim of this post is to document the process of drafting an abstract for a conference paper.
RISE to the challenge of dialogic feedback
It seems that students want more feedback but studies show they don’t read it or don’t understand it (McConlogue 2014, 1496). But that might largely be down to the monologic, transmission model tutors use for giving feedback. If we want students to increase their uptake of feedback then we need to encourage them to proactively engage with the feedback.
Blog Task Design and the 3C3R Model
In my literature searches I came across a useful resource referred to as the 3C3R model (Hung 2009) which I have drawn on extensively in the paper I am currently writing. I have presented below some notes and diagrams that are intended to illustrate the model in use.