Blogs about: Constructive Alignment

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Learner Autonomy, Control and the Balance of Power

This blog post relates to my study of CCK11. I have been struggling with how to express my view of the future role of educators in the 21st century.  I have had an idea that centres around learner cen… more →

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Global in outlook and competence? — 1 comment

theteachingtomtom wrote 1 month ago: Posted by: Meredith Seaman, Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching, College of Design and Social Cont … more →

Tags: Feedback, Creative practice, Student mobility, Group Work, engaging students in learning, Assessment, Student Engagement, Collaborative learning

Major new look at universities launched by Australian publisher

John wrote 2 months ago: MELBOURNE, Australia: How have universities changed over the past 60 years? Are they any better now … more →

Tags: Books, Learning, Teaching, Universities, Biggs, TL, Education, Research, Science

Course Guides...does anyone care? — 11 comments

theteachingtomtom wrote 2 months ago: Posted by: Spiros Soulis, Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching, College of Design and Social Contex … more →

Tags: Learning, Professional Development, Reflective practice, Students 2, Teaching, Technology, Assessment, course guides, Learning Outcomes

Grounding graduate attributes — 1 comment

theteachingtomtom wrote 3 months ago: Posted by: Margaret Blackburn, Senior Advisor, Strategic Learning and Teaching Initiatives, Office o … more →

Tags: Assessment, Learning, Professional Development, Reflective practice, Student Engagement, Students 2, Teaching, course guides, graduate attributes

Observation by mentor – constructive alignment 5/6 by Liz Hannaford #lthesep12

pgcapsalford wrote 6 months ago: Observation by mentor – constructive alignment 5/6. … more →

Tags: LTHE, mentor observation

Exams ... Haven't we learnt already?

mitchhughes wrote 6 months ago: These past four months I’ve returned to study. I think that it’s pretty vital for someon … more →

Tags: Exams, Moodle

Quiet please! Introverts and our love affair with group work — 20 comments

theteachingtomtom wrote 6 months ago: Posted by: Kylie Budge, Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching, College of Design and Social Context, … more →

Tags: Assessment, Creative practice, Feedback, first year transition, Group Work, large classes, Learning, peer learning, Reflective practice

Visualising Outcomes: domains, taxonomies and verbs — 1 comment

Simon Paul Atkinson wrote 7 months ago: Four ‘Domains’ of educational objectives represented in a circular form I think being ab … more →

Tags: Academic & Professional Development, Epistemology, Learning Design, Teaching practice, affective, affective wheel, Anderson, Bloom's Taxonomy, Cognitive

Intended Learning Outcomes matter

Simon Paul Atkinson wrote 7 months ago: MOOCs, self generated OER based curricula, kite-marking schemes, and elaborate credit transfer schem … more →

Tags: Academic & Professional Development, Learning Design, Teaching practice, ILO, John Biggs, Learning Outcomes, Sole

RMIT Learning & Teaching Expo Preview

theteachingtomtom wrote 9 months ago: Guest Post by Diana Cousens, Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching Unit, RMIT. Click on the nautilus … more →

Tags: academic publishing, Assessment, Creative practice, eLearning, first year transition, large classes, Learning, peer learning, post-graduate programs

Bloom 'n' Biggs — 3 comments

theteachingtomtom wrote 11 months ago: Creative Commons Photo from Flickr by Being There Posted by: Helen McLean, Senior Advisor, Learning … more →

Tags: Assessment, Teaching, Feedback, large classes, Learning, Student Engagement, Creative practice, Reflective practice, Bloom's Taxonomy

Lecturing: First do no harm?

Hypocaffeinic wrote 1 year ago: Lecturing by Socrates, 440BC Lecturing in the 1780's Lecturing in the 1880's Lecturing in the 1980's … more →

Tags: GCTE, EDED20485 Coursework, Being a teacher, Online & Virtual Environments, Teaching, Pedagogy, Collaborative learning, web 2. 0, E-learning

Is valid incentive crucial to constructive alignment?

Andrew Mashigo wrote 1 year ago: Learning takes place through the active behaviour of the student: it is what he does that he learns, … more →

Tags: Initiating active behaviour in a student, Learning, Criteria, Incentive, expected outcomes, Behaviour, norm-referenced, Criterion Referenced

Why TTTT? — 2 comments

theteachingtomtom wrote 1 year ago: Why write a blog on teaching and learning? Good question! The idea came from a Speed Geeking session … more →

Tags: speed geeking, the thesis whisperer

Learning and Teaching Academic Standards: Threshold Learning Outcomes in Science

Keith Lyons wrote 2 years ago: Luby Simson invited Brian Yates and Jo Kelder to the University of Canberra to host a workshop on th … more →

Tags: Teaching and Learning, Communication, Australia, Community, Education, University of Canberra, Alt+C, #ucniss, Luby Simson

Learner Autonomy, Control and the Balance of Power — 8 comments

damoclarky wrote 2 years ago: This blog post relates to my study of CCK11. I have been struggling with how to express my view of t … more →

Tags: study, Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, Education, PLE, Biggs, stephen downes, Learning Theory, cck11, learning context

PLEs and PLNs — 4 comments

damoclarky wrote 2 years ago: This blog post relates to my study of CCK11. What are the downsides? (http://net.educause.edu/ir/lib … more →

Tags: study, Learning Theory, Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, Education, web2, PLE, Biggs, George Siemens, Connectivism

Frames and Context: Toomato or Tomato — 4 comments

damoclarky wrote 2 years ago: This post relates to my study of CCK11. A fellow student, Jaap recently took the time to comment on … more →

Tags: study, Learning Theory, Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, Education, Biggs, stephen downes, George Siemens, Connectivism, cck11

REPOST: Improving university teaching, learning theory, and curriculum design — 2 comments

damoclarky wrote 2 years ago: This post relates to my study of CCK11. I found an article I wrote two years ago regarding improving … more →

Tags: study, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Connectivism and Connected Knowledge, Education, Constructivism, Biggs, Behaviourism, stephen downes


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