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Wednesday 5 December 2018 Bio/Blog With apprenticeships, work-based learning, and skills for work becoming increasingly important areas of development and activity across the higher education sector globally, QAA Scotland’s new ‘Focus On’ project examining Graduate Skills is relevant and timely. … Continue reading →

Wednesday 21 November 2018 Margy MacMillan, Canada. @margymaclibrary There is a persistent narrative that stigmatizes students in higher education as disengaged from the the ‘real world’, uninterested in the news, unaware of current events. Recent research, including the News Study by … Continue reading →

Wednesday 14 November 2018 David Smith, Australia @djs2206 With the miniaturisation of computing and the availability of technologies much has been anticipated about the affordances that technology would bring to daily and corporate living, conquering aspects such as distance and providing … Continue reading →

7 November 2018 Mr Damian Keil and Dr David Wright Assessment feedback in higher education is usually provided through ‘written’ methods. Despite the widespread use of ‘written’ feedback, students frequently report dissatisfaction with the quality of their assessment feedback in … Continue reading →

#coachingHE We are living in turbulent times in Higher Education (HE) with ever increasing reported levels of mental health issues in both students and staff (Grove, 2018; Niblock, 2018; Persson, 2017; Weale, 2018). When we add in the drive to … Continue reading →

Naomi Wahls is a First year Seminar instructor at the University of Colorado Denver for Fall 2018, teaching Global Competence through Intercultural Learning. She is a PhD Candidate at Open Universiteit, Netherlands researching Intercultural Collaborative Open Learning. She completed her … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 10 October 2018, Dr Gerasimos Chatzidamianos aims to trigger an open dialogue/debate that focuses on the emotions and needs of both academics and students. There has been a lot of work on the effects of emotion on learning. This … Continue reading →

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Brave New World: How are we preparing the Next -Generation of learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Kay Hack, Academic Lead STEM 20.00 UK time, Wednesday 26th September 2018  A tsunami of new technologies is set to transform the workplace, … Continue reading →

Wednesday,19 September 2018 at 20.00 UK time zone Next week’s #LTHEchat topic is Technology Facilitation. Nikos Mouratoglou has been involved in a Facilitation Program for Virtual Exchange in HE institutions. Coming to a deeper understanding of breadth and depth of … Continue reading →