Tara Brabazon in the Times Higher Education Supplement when discussing coursework masters degree courses:
“They are squeezed between the crowd control of undergraduate education and the over-bureaucratised doctoral programmes that dislodge the historically functional relationship between a PhD candidate and supervisor.”
She draws attention to the remarkable creativity of her students, when unleashed with a little […]
Entries from May 2008
Surprise, surprise
May 25th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: action · assessment · delight · Digital Creativity · well-being
TeachMeet Redbridge (part 2)
May 22nd, 2008 2 Comments
My first post about TeachMeet was a hurried blog in case Ewan offered a prize for the first person to Blog the event!
More reflection, and waiting until the end, allows a more thoughtful blog which fills in some of the blanks.
Blank 1 - why speak about delight?
It was delightful to be able to speak about […]
Tags: conference · delight · learning
TeachMeet RedBridge
May 19th, 2008 No Comments
Great fun here in Redbridge Teachers’ Centre, free beer, good conversation and interesting ideas. As Ewan put it “Butlins for geeks”
An Analysis of Delight
May 15th, 2008 3 Comments
Ever since reading about John Heron’s ‘up-hierarchy’ of delight, with his wonderfully expressive language, I have been enjoying adding new elements (although disregarding for now their connection, except as a list). I have made a poster of them and will be talking about them (if chosen to speak) at the TeachMeet in Redbridge on Monday […]
Tags: delight
A University for Improvement
May 14th, 2008 3 Comments
Almost five years to the day that Ultraversity was validated at Anglia Ruskin University, we have received conditional approval for a new scheme based on the same philosophies of learner-centred, work-focussed, community-supported, action-inquiry and innovative assessment.
This IDIBL course framework validated at the University of Bolton is more ambitious in scope, more refined in character and […]
Tags: academia · action · education · lifelong learning · online community