As promised in Part 1 of this short series, this post considers the Community of Inquiry framework from Garrison, Anderson and Archer (1999), in my opinion another important model for online teaching and learning. However, in the two weeks since my last post I have been pondering on community. Interested, then please read on. BrouwerContinue reading “The challenge of “remaining current” part 2 – “Ultimately, it’s all about community””
Category Archives: PD Typology
The challenge of “remaining current” part 1
A couple of months ago I created a placeholder for a future post with this title. I drafted a few notes with the idea of expanding the traditional notion that for teachers “remaining current” meant keeping up to date with our knowledge area / domain (replace with your preferred term). I was particularly interested inContinue reading “The challenge of “remaining current” part 1”
Reflecting on collective forms of learning
Last month our cohort moved into year 2 of our structured PhD in e-research and technology enhanced learning where our current module focuses on networked learning, teaching and assessment. There have been some interesting discussions over the last three weeks, most recently focusing on individual, cooperative, collective, collaborative learning and more. One of the questionsContinue reading “Reflecting on collective forms of learning”
Goodbye blog, hello learning portfolio 👋
Participants were welcomed to the second iteration of the online PACT course with a clear statement of its aims: The aims of the PACT badge are to familiarise you with the PD framework, to encourage you to use the PD framework to develop effective PD strategies, and to develop your PD learning community. We encourageContinue reading “Goodbye blog, hello learning portfolio 👋”
Lessons from the year that was 2019
I wrote a post with a similar title at the end of 2017. It seems timely to reflect on these 5 lessons and consider how I might apply them to the year, and indeed the decade, ahead. Not a list of new year resolutions most certainly, I prefer to think of them as a setContinue reading “Lessons from the year that was 2019”
Reflecting on PACT week 3
Our second activity for week 3 of PACT involved identifying how one of the selected readings can help us better reflect on our practice. Four resources were suggested and while I would have liked to have selected one of the SEDA specials I couldn’t locate a library source, so selected Chandran’s presentation instead. I wasContinue reading “Reflecting on PACT week 3”
