Even before COVID-19, universities and other educational and training institutions were exploring ways that they might reach learners who were increasingly time-poor. Microcredentials were – and still are – touted as a possible solution by providing learners with the option to undertake study at a pace that suits them, with no long-term commitments required. This…
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The future of Learning Design: challenges and tensions
This is a blog post that I wrote (with assistance from Lucy Blakemore) for the LX Lab. What does the future look like for learning designers, and Learning Design as a field? The profession has certainly been changing and growing in status, hastened by the impact of COVID worldwide. At the same time, there is significant potential…
Paper: Education focused pracademics on twitter: building democratic fora
Purpose – This paper explores the features of pracademic practice within online spaces where pracademics, academics and teachers interact. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses autoethnographic case studies to showcase the boundary- spanning thinking of two pracademics, one a practicing teacher, the other an early career researcher, to provide an overview of how pracademics are engaging with research…
#eduReading at #AussieEd
These are the provocations from the #AussieEd session I hosted with Steven Kolber.
Tensions and Existential Crises in Learning Design
This is a presentation that I delivered for the UTS LD Meet Up.
Game Review: Age of Wonders: Planetfall
I feel like I cut my adolescent gaming teeth on the classic 4X games – and there were plenty of them throughout the 90s. The whole RTS or turn-based strategy genre exploded, and games like Starcraft, Command and Conquer and many others filled many hours of my childhood (and yes, I am showing my age)….
Game Review: Don’t Starve
This review is based on the iOS version of Don’t Starve, which has some differences to the PC version. Following on from The Survivalists and my current interest in all things survival and crafting based, I downloaded Don’t Starve, from Apple Arcade. It’s got a very similar premise as The Survivalists (although, it should be…
Cruel Optimism and Education: 2021 Wyndham Lecture
I recently attended (online, of course) the 2021 Wyndham Lecture, which was given by Professor Bob Lingard and hosted by the NSW Institute for Educational Research. It is always a good event, and this one was certainly no different – it was a thoughtful and detailed analysis of the current state of play of education…
Game Review: The Survivalists
A new trend in computer game – and one that I am very much here for – is the kind fo crafting/ survival combo game. I’m sure you’ve seen them – there are plenty of examples, such as the very well put together Subnautica, but also some derivatives like Raft. Sometimes these games get mixed…
Book Review of Activist Citizenship Education in Curriculum Perspectives
Professor Ian Davies has written a generous review of SCEAA member Keith Heggart’s book Activist Citizenship Education. He writes, “This is a very good book. It is intelligently and engagingly presented. It offers a wealth of insight into societal trends and the nature of civics and citizenship education and, crucially, offers a thoughtful and practical…