#LTHEchat No 17 Pedagogic research with Dr Anna Wood @annakwood

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Anna Wood, image source: here

Dr Anna Wood will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss pedagogical research (PedR).

Anna Wood is a physicist turned physics education researcher, who discovered a fascination for learning/teaching while studying for an MSc in E-learning (now digital education) at the University of Edinburgh, during a career break.

Her research interests include science (particularly physics) education, the use of technology in learning, assessment, and lecturer professional development. Her research, in collaboration with the Edinburgh Physics Education Research Group (EdPER) which focussed on analysing physics students’ conversations during Peer Instruction, was published last year in Physical Review Special Topics PER and was nominated as an editors suggestion.

Anna is currently investigating lecturer-student interactions during physics lectures while writing grant applications in an attempt to secure funding to continue working in this area part-time!

She has written a blog post to provide an introduction to pedagogical research, and to hopefully provoke some interesting discussions!

Alongside Anna, Peter from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

A short story can be found below which might help you get started.

The Storify will be available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-17-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-ch

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog.

If you participated/are participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 16 – You voted for “Open Educators”!

Posted on March 7, 2015 by lthechatteam

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Dear #LTHEchat friends,

Thank you so much for all your support and dedication since the launch of the #LTHEchat initiative in 2014. It has been a fascinating journey so far and we are fully booked with Guests who have volunteered to lead chats until the end of June.

This is a quick invite to participate in the poll for our next chat. Next week is Open Education Week and we thought that it would be useful and relevant to discuss a topic linked to Open Education. Please indicate your preference below.

The poll is now closed.

We look forward to another lively discussion this coming Wednesday at 8pm UK time which will be led by Sue Beckingham and Chrissi Nerantzi.

Thank you for those who have already completed our mini survey. The survey will remain open until the end of June. Please consider capturing your responses there to help us evaluate this initiative and find ways forward that would be of value for the community from September 2015 onwards. The survey can be accessed at https://lthechat.com/what-does-lthechat-mean-to-you/lthechat-survey/

We have also started thinking of the possibility to organise an #LTHEchat meetup and would value your thoughts around this and how we could make this happen.

The #LTHEchat team

ps. To find further activities and events linked to Open Education Week 2015, click here.

Bonus invite(s) for sharing and co-creating  throughout the week

As this week is especially exciting for all of us, we would like to encourage you to tweet your favourite quote, video, animation, cartoon, article or paper using the #LTHEchat hashtag throughout the week (1)

If you would like to participate in the open collaborative poem creation that would be super fantastic!!! We have set-up a Google doc for this that can be accessed here. Co-ordinators are Dr Sam Illingworth from MMU (@samillingworth) and Dr David Smith (@dave_thesmith) from SHU TBC (2).

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#LTHEchat No 15 “Digital Devices for Learning” with Dr Magdalena Bober @magdalenabober

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Dr Magdalena Bober

Dr Magdalena Bober, Lecturer in Communications Media at Manchester Metropolitan University will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss using digital devices for learning.

Magda is currently carrying out a research project on the use of mobile devices and other innovative uses of technology in learning and teaching in HE funded by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The project will provide a snapshot of related practices in humanities, social science and language teaching, using her own faculty at MMU as a case study. Magda is interested in how our everyday uses of mobile devices and other ICTs relate to how we use them in an educational context.

Alongside Magda, Chrissi from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify will be available here:

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

If you are participated/participating in any way in the #LTHEchat, please complete our short survey and let us know if you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you. Thank you.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 14 with Dr Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth about Progression

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Dr Rachel Forsyth

Dr Rachel Forsyth, Deputy Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University will be with us for the next #LTHEchat to discuss Progression. In Rachel’s own words:

“So, this week I am determined to get home in time to participate properly in #lthechat. I often catch the end, and almost always scroll through the hashtag or storify afterwards, but I feel an extra sense of responsibility this week.

What is the role of learning and teaching in supporting progression? Is it just about making sure that everyone passes the year? What can we learn from the extensive literature on student retention and student success which we can apply to our own teaching and assessment? Is it someone else’s problem: student services, librarians, counsellors, personal tutors or halls of residence staff? Or is it something we can address in the curriculum?”

Recommended reading by Rachel:

Crosling, G., et al., Eds. (2008). Improving Student Retention in Higher Education. Abingdon, Routledge.

Thomas, L. (2012) Building student engagement and belonging in higher education at a time of change: final report from the What works? Student retention & success programme  https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/2932

Tinto, V. (2012). Completing college: Rethinking institutional action, University of Chicago Press. – more about institutional policy than individual actions, but still interesting.

Wilcox, P., et al. (2005). “”It was nothing to do with the university, it was just the people”: the role of social support in the first-year experience of higher education.” Studies in Higher Education 30(6): 707 – 722. http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/03075070500340036 – thoughtful analysis of the reasons students gave for leaving university early.

Yorke, M. and Longden, B. (2007). The first-year experience in higher education in the UK, Higher Education Academy.  https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/resources/detail/publications/fye_final_report – this report contains important and convincing analysis of first year experiences. The data is now getting on for ten years old – it would be good to know what’s changed!

Alongside Rachel, Sue Beckingham from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify is available here: https://storify.com/LTHEchat/lthechat-14-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-ed-ch

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

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We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 13: Virtual Learning Spaces with David Eddy @sonofedd

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

David Eddy

David Eddy

This week we have the pleasure to have with us David Eddy (@sonofedd) who will be leading the #LTHEchat on ‘VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACES’. 

David Eddy is a Teaching Fellow (DL) in the Faculty of Health & Well Being at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Since 2007 he has been supporting, enabling and delivering online courses in a range of contexts. During 2014 he undertook the learning design and was Joint Course Leader (with Cath Holborn) of SHU’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Enhancing Prostate Cancer Care. This was delivered in collaboration with Prostate Cancer UK and PebblePad.

 Virtual Learning Spaces – it’s all about the conversation.

This tweetchat will focus upon how colleagues, choose, define, frame and utilise virtual learning spaces to foster and enhance the learning conversation.

Alongside David, Sue Beckingham from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

The Storify is available here.

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

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We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 12 summary “Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education” with Frances Bell @francesbell

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

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This week’s chat topic was led by Frances Bell and supported by Chrissi Nerantzi.

Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education

The Storify is available HERE.

Don’t forget we would love you to contribute your reflections by sharing a link to a blog post you have written, an image or just as a bullet point! Simple click on where it says ‘Google Slides’ and this will open the summary in a new window (Google Slides). Add your contribution and it auto saves.

We look forward to seeing you again next week, same time, same place.

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 12 “Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education” with Frances Bell @francesbell

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Dear colleagues,

Frances Bell, image source here

This week we have the pleasure to have with us Frances Bell (@francesbell) an experienced retired lecturer and scholar who will be leading the #LTHEchat on ‘Revealing and celebrating learning beyond education‘. Please access the related post Frances has prepared in advance of the chat by clicking here.

Alongside Frances, Chrissi Nerantzi from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

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We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 11 Summary: ‘Discussing failure and when things go wrong in Learning and Teaching’

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

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This week’s chat topic was led by Chris Corker and supported by Sue Beckingham.

Discussing failure and when things go wrong in Learning and Teaching

The Storify is available HERE.

Read more about what is being shared in the #LTHEchat community reflective summaries file below. Chris shares his reflections on the lack of discussion on failure and when things go wrong with student engagement initiatives.

Don’t forget we would love you to contribute your reflections by sharing a link to a blog post you have written, an image or just as a bullet point! Simple click on where it says ‘Google Slides’ and this will open the summary in a new window (Google Slides). Add your contribution and it auto saves.

We look forward to seeing you again next week, same time, same place.

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 11: ‘Discussing failure and when things go wrong in Learning and Teaching’ with @ChrisCorker

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Sue Beckingham

Dear colleagues,

This week we have the pleasure to have with us Chris Corker (@ChrisCorker), a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University who will be leading the #LTHEchat on ‘Discussing failure and when things go wrong in Learning and Teaching’

Chris Corker

Chris Corker

Chris Corker is, in his own words, a ‘learning and teaching enthusiast’, having previously worked and published in areas related to learner autonomy, employability, retention, critical thinking, and most recently failure. His discipline background is in History, where is he is currently working on his PhD on the Sheffield Armaments Industry between 1900 and 1930. He also teaches in History, and recently co-developed a module which gives first year history students the chance to work in libraries and archives to uncover potentially new and untouched aspects of local history. Several publications are forthcoming documenting the approach.

Alongside Chris, Sue Beckingham from the LTHEchat team will be facilitating the chat.

Discussing failure and when things go wrong in Learning and TeachingIt appears when it comes to Learning and Teaching, we never talk about when things go wrong. You only need to look at how many times the word ‘success’ comes up in journals, article titles, conferences and so forth to see that we are obsessed with sharing what went well. So what about ‘failure’? There seems to be a taboo around the word, and that somehow not sharing when things go wrong is for the best. This is where our discussion comes in. I believe that there is a wealth of knowledge to be gathered from when things don’t go to plan or fail that simply isn’t shared, yet is just as powerful as talking about when things do go to plan. By sharing failures we can prevent repeating such mistakes again and potentially help the community develop further from such an exchange of knowledge. There is even the potential that something that didn’t work in one institution, subject or discipline could work elsewhere, and that the element which led to failure is idiosyncratic to the environment, not the idea. We are only scratching the surface, but there is certainly a lot to learn in this area. I hope our chat generates some meaningful discussion. See you all Wednesday!

If you are reflecting on this specific #LTHEchat please share your post with us so that we can reblog. A Google presentation has been set-up to share your thoughts there as well.

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We will be collaborating more with students and introduce dedicated #LTHEchat s led by the student community. These will be called: “Questions we always wanted to ask you” which will be a great opportunity to bring educators and students closer together.  The student guest  will represent questions from the student community. Questions he will share will include some of his own but also those from his peers.

If you have other suggestions on how we could make the #LTHEchat more valuable for you, please let us know.

See you Wednesday, same time, same place 😉 – 8-9PM GMT #LTHEchat

The LTHEchat team

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#LTHEchat No 10 Internationalisation

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Chrissi Nerantzi

Elliebird_weeklyLTHEchatsummaryThis week’s chat topic was led by Steven Peters and supported by Dr David Walker.

Internationalisation

The Storify is available HERE.

A new ideas was born during the chat! We will be introducing some non-English #LTHEchats and see how they go. Julie Tardy @jtardy81 offered to lead one in French and there was interest for further chats in Portuguese, Polish, Spanish and other languages. In order to make this happen we will need to work together. So if you are really interested, please get in touch with the #LTHEchat team.

Read more about what is being shared in the #LTHEchat community reflective summaries file below.

Don’t forget we would love you to contribute your reflections by sharing a link to a blog post you have written, an image or just as a bullet point! Simple click on where it says ‘Google Slides’ and this will open the summary in a new window (Google Slides). Add your contribution and it auto saves.

We look forward to seeing you again next week, same time, same place.

The LTHEchat team

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