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Open Textbooks and Learning Theory
An exercise for my final (!) course on OUH880. I had to think about learning theories and how you could apply them to Open textbooks. I came up with a slide because I needed to change up the presentation style
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Educational Futures – Week 1
And she’s back! I had a week or two of not-blogging while I wrote TMA03, and then there was a lovely week of playing Skyrim, flying kites, thinking about reading a novel…and then I had to go back to work and…
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Portfolio entry 16: Ethical and Equitable TEL
200 words on my plans for addressing issues of ethics and equitable TEL. The general thrust of this question is, again, inappropriate for my context. It assumes that I am working in an educational environment rather than a workplace learning environment,…
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Culturally responsive learning
Tonight’s conundrum is looking at culturally responsive learning as defined by Geneva Gay in 2001 (Gay, Geneva. “Preparing for Culturally Responsive Teaching. (2001 AACTE Outstanding Writing Award Recipient).” Journal of Teacher Education 53.2 (2002): 106-16. Web.) I have to look at a page…
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Cultural differences and online education
This is another of those “read this interminable article with five sub-clauses per sentence and then write a short essay on this point, this point, this point, and remember to think about all these other, tangentally-related points. You have 1200 characters…
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Portfolio entry 14 & 15 – Scholarship and me
This week we’ve been looking at open/informal experimentation, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and opening up scholarship beyond the academy. We were asked what we were changing and experimenting within our practice – trying to remember a time when a…
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SoTL – Analysing research questions
We’re into Week 5 of the third module in OUH880 and we’re back looking at research questions in the context of SoTL, or Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Apparently there isn’t much scholarship around workplace learning. Who knew? So we’re looking…
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Where’s 11, 12 and 13??
You might notice that I missed a few portfolio entries. That’s because that particular section of the course taxed my patience somewhat and I thought “f*** that for a game of soldiers. It’s my birthday and I’ve got plenty of other…
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The state of Corporate Learning
I’m listening in to a webinar on Learning in the flow of work – ie workplace learning and this slide came up… I think this illustrates what I’ve been saying in the course – that academically focused learning design doesn’t suit…
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Portfolio entry 10 – Curation
We’ve moved on to Week 4 – curation. Now this is a funny one because I’ve been blogging since <checks archive> 2002, when I used a blog to store information on HTML coding and web design principles. So, here’s the question…
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I collaborate with stakeholders, learners and SMEs to identify learning needs and establish measurable performance metrics, and use this information to design learning that enables learners to reach their full potential and perform excellently. In this blog, I aim to share my expertise, insights, and experiences.
Sarah Slade 