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About rachelleeobrien

I'm a tea drinking, Netflix enjoying, Disney lover who works as a Senior Learning Designer at Durham University. MSc Digital Education graduate from the University of Edinburgh and PhD student at Northumbria University in Newcastle. The official bio: Rachelle Emily O'Brien is a Senior Learning Designer at Durham Centre for Academic Development at Durham University. Her research interests include digital education, digital games and escape rooms, surprise and playfulness in Higher Education. Rachelle is a PhD student at Northumbria University in Newcastle and her recent projects focus on the use of digital escape rooms in pedagogic practice.

#LTHEChat 280: Creative pedagogies by the fireside

Posted on December 17, 2023 by rachelleeobrien

Led by guest Rachelle O’Brien @rachelleeobrien on behalf of Durham University Creative Pedagogies Research Group  What does creativity mean to you? This week’s chat is led by the newly formed Durham University Creative Pedagogies Research Group. We warmly invite you … Continue reading →

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#LTHEChat 270: Professional identities and professional development: Pracademia

Posted on September 19, 2023 by rachelleeobrien

With Dr Jill Dickinson @jill_dickinson1 Both the concepts of ‘pracademia’ and ‘pracademic’ have been attracting growing interest around the world in the context of contemporary policy developments across the Higher Education (HE) sector (Hollweck et al., 2021). Yet, there is … Continue reading →

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#LTHEChat 269: Digital student interns and inclusive digital learning – support for all

Posted on September 10, 2023 by rachelleeobrien

With John Brindle @johnbrindletel Stuart Feltham @stupot42 and Scott Farrow @scottfarrow88 At Edge Hill University (EHU) we’re coming to the end of a four plus year Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) review and implementation project, which has seen us migrate all … Continue reading →

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Happy new (academic) year! Something old and something new.

Posted on September 10, 2023 by rachelleeobrien

We hope you have had a restful summer and are raring and ready to go for the academic year ahead. We have a really exciting programme coming up this term and are looking forward to connecting with old friends and … Continue reading →

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#LTHEchat 162: ‘Playful Learning Technologies’ with Katie Piatt @katiepiatt facilitated by Rachelle O’Brien @rachelleebrien

Posted on December 17, 2019 by rachelleeobrien

Katie has previously led an LTHEchat on Playful learning experiences (https://lthechat.com/2017/12/03/lthechat-98-engagement-through-playful-learning-experiences-with-katie-piatt-katiepiatt-and-fiona-macneill-fmacneill/) – but tonight we are thinking about how we can use technology in a playful way and not just the easy things (like a Kahoot) but making the VLE, … Continue reading →

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#LTHEchat 161: ‘Social Media in HE’ with Chris Rowell @chri5rowell

Posted on December 9, 2019 by rachelleeobrien

Social media isn’t the ‘new kid on the block’ anymore, it is part of the mainstream of university life. It’s been around for more than a decade now and most staff and students have engaged with at least one of … Continue reading →

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#LTHEchat 159 Contract Cheating with Dr Thomas Lancaster @DrLancaster

Posted on November 18, 2019 by rachelleeobrien

How should we address contract cheating in higher education? Contract cheating has been an area of personal interest to me since Robert Clarke and I published the first paper referring to this type of academic misconduct back in 2006. Even … Continue reading →

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#LTHEchat 155: Extending Communities Through Networks and Frameworks with @femedtech #femedtech

Posted on October 14, 2019 by rachelleeobrien

This week’s #LTHEchat is going to be slightly different. Instead of being led by one or two people, it is going to be much more of an open, collective, networked affair brought to you by the FemEdTech community.  FemEdTech is … Continue reading →

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#LTHEchat 153 Beyond the course team – the role of educational/curriculum development support with University of Liverpool Centre of Innovation in Education @LivUniCIE

Posted on September 29, 2019 by rachelleeobrien

There is no doubt that regardless of the criticism levelled at the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) it has raised the profile of how important high quality teaching and the associated curriculum is to students and to the Office for Students … Continue reading →

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#LTHEchat 152 ‘What does it mean to learn how to teach’ with Santanu Vasant @santanuvasant Steve Rowett @srowett and Sarah Honeychurch @NomadWarMachine

Posted on September 15, 2019 by rachelleeobrien

Can you be taught how to teach? Is this something that can be reduced to Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) on a PG Cert? Can “experts” in learning and teaching equip novices with the skills they need to be successful teachers? … Continue reading →

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