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…
Category: Academia
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.
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…
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…