4. Professional Knowledge and Skills – Page 2

#OER24 – a reflection

In this post I reflect on my first time attendance at OER24, the annual Open Education, Research, Practice and Policy conference hosted this week by Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland. I also had the opportunity to present my current work, a video recording of a practice run is available through this link: https://learningdigitaltogether.com/our-pilot/

A researcher’s ethical PhD journey

I received notification this week that my PhD was awarded on 24 August, so now seems a good time to reflect on the ethical choices of my journey up to this point and consider plans for the future, from an ethical and personal values perspective.

A community-of-peer learners

In recent months I have been spending some time preparing for my upcoming viva exam and have been fortunate enough to have had not one, but two practice runs with peers during April and May. Their feedback, individually and collectively, was incredibly valuable and allowed for considerable improvements to be made between the runs andContinue reading “A community-of-peer learners”

Copyediting and/or proofreading?

It seems like I’m putting my hands up a lot these days, but I have only recently realised that copyediting and proofreading are two quite different things. What? You thought they were the same thing too? Then read on…

Just in case…

It’s almost six months since I’ve a written a post, but I’ve been busy drafting my literature review, revising earlier chapters, drafting my discussion and now thinking about my research conclusions. I also fractured my wrist in June that has slowed me down but thankfully I was able to use the Dictate features in ScrivenerContinue reading “Just in case…”

Organising the chaos… EndNote part 2

From April 2021: It’s been a few months since my Endnote and Scrivener integration discoveries. Since then I’ve been drafting and redrafting my PhD research proposal in Scrivener along with my list of references, then copy/pasting it all into Microsoft Word for supervisor and peer review and feedback, WHAT? Didn’t I already crack referencing withContinue reading “Organising the chaos… EndNote part 2”