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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.May 2009
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Ask the readers: Why use technology in teaching?
Today I have a challenge for you, dear reader; but first a little context. Each year, the PCHE course has a couple of special interest sessions: optional workshops to look at issues related to learning and teaching in HE. For a number of years this has included a session on blended learning, run by previous [...]
Quickie: University of Sheffield to use Google Mail
I got an email in my inbox today announcing that the university will be transferring all taught students’ email accounts to Google Apps for Education (also previously discussed on Chris Sexton’s blog). As is fairly standard, university email has until now been handled in-house. I’ve never had any problems with it: it’s reliable, and the [...]
Equity in education: giving everyone a fair chance
There’s no denying it, it’s a tricky concept. How do we make sure that you offer everyone a fair chance? How do we define fair? Who is ‘everyone’ and what chance are we going to give them? One of the more recent PCHE workshops had us discussing these very questions, so here are my thoughts [...]
May's theme: reflection
I’m coming up to the end of the PCHE course, so I thought I’d give over this month’s blog posts to some reflection on what I’ve learnt over the two years I’ve been studying it. I’ll be mixing up some shorter and longer posts and aiming to prompt some discussion about the wide variety of [...]
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