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Humanism - Carl Rogers - "best known contribution - the 'core conditions' for facilitative (counselling and educational) practice - congruence (realness), acceptance and empathy)." "We cannot teach another person directly; we can only facilitate his learning"

- I can't remember who posted this from our TEAP class or where! :( I like it's practical stance and it's useful starting points for truly integrating video and media into teaching design.

Teaching and Learning Research Programme supports and develops the UK's educational research to improve outcomes for learners of all ages. Projects cover many topics in sectors across the lifecourse. We also fund extensive cross-Programme thematic work

Summary of practical methods (with links) to assess groups and individuals within groups

Good breakdown and explanation of Blended Learning as an approach to learning and teaching. This combines and aligns learning undertaken in face to face sessions with learning opportunities created online.

With advocates like Sal Khan and Bill Gates, flipped classrooms are attracting an increasing amount of media and research attention. We had heard Khan's TED talk and were aware of the concept of inverted pedagogies in general. Yet, it really hit home when we accidentally flipped our classroom. Our objective was to better prepare our students for class. We set out to effectively move some of our course content outside of class and decided to tweak the Just-in-Time-Teaching approach (JiTT). To our surprise, this tweak - which we like to call the flip-JiTT - ended up completely flipping our classroom. What follows is narrative of our experience and a procedure that any teacher can use to extend JiTT to a flipped classroom

I have had Twitter account for some time but this is my first encounter with its potential application in Research.

Pinterest might be another way to promote the sense of online community. Would you agree?

Ratings on Moodle Forums - thought from TEAP and student feedback - use to allow non-verbal engagement with forum. Numerical rating possible at least - maybe can have a like, agree, disagree, good point etc rating? Adding more opportunity for the lurkers?

Annora, this is what I needed :) Thank you for sharing this resource about Moodle functionality.

Humanistic education - Good overview at wikipedia.

This blog post shares students views' on mobile learning from a survey carried out at the University of Liverpool. One of the most interesting aspects of this post is the summary of student views in response to the question; 'How would you expect to use mobile devices at University?'

Thomas thank you for sharing. I wonder whether digital natives and "others" would have different opinion? Also I can not guess on how much of a difference would UG students have to part time PG students. Do you have any idea on that or maybe a good resource to look at?

This web article provides a concise discussion of the revisions of Bloom's classic cognitive taxonomy by Anderson and Krathwohl. The differences between Bloom's original taxonomy and the revised one are shown clearly in a well laid out table.

Flipped learning - a staff development session plan from another university

Sandra, thank you for sharing this inspiring resource!

This web resource created by University College Dublin offers guidance on designing or redesigning modules in ways that encourage students to engage in the curriculum and develop deep learning, critical thinking and research skills.

Thomas, thank you for your information. Very useful in identifying this if we need it. btw, why did you post the same comment twice :)

This web and pdf resource from University College Dublin, offers helpful guidance on structuring your modules and considering what the best sequence for when and how students might access resources including the blend of content, activities and resources.

Thomas, blended learning is something i am focused onto in this phase of my Project development. Thank you for sharing this source.

An academic journal of learning, teaching, and technology that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy.

Blended Learning is an approach to learning and teaching which combines and aligns learning undertaken in face to face sessions with learning opportunities created online.

Anant Agarwal, president of edX, talks about experiments;massive open online courses; the provocative experiment in higher education. 'Whenever something is declared the subject of "the year of," you know said subject is ripe for a big fat backlash. So, when The New York Times declared 2012 "the year of the MOOC," it thus came to pass that massive open online courses should next become the subject of massive, open, often online criticism, as critics gathered to air both their... '