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.
Learning & Teaching
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.