This is a short presentation that I did for students enrolled in the MEDLL course at UTS.
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Back to the future: What’s changed for active citizenship?
Recently, the Federal Education Minister, Alan Tudge, called upon the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) to substantially rewrite the new draft of the Australian Curriculum. Among other subjects, he focused on History and Civics and Citizenship, arguing that, in the new draft, “important historical events are removed or reframed, such as the emphasis on invasion theory over Australia Day. Even…
How to bridge the teacher and academic divide online
The Problem & the Proposal One of the most widely accepted facts in education is that teachers and academics often do not mix. This hurts teachers engagement with research and its application in the classrooms. Social media, and Twitter especially, holds the potential to bring together teachers, academics, and others within shared spaces to develop…
AECT Presentation 2021
This is a presentation that I did with some colleagues at AECT 2021.
Postgraduate Information Session
Microcredentials and Automated Feedback: A Perfect Match?
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…
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.