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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.Education
Moving to a more agile VLE
There’s been an interesting debate going on in the blogosphere over the last week about the future of the VLE. It all kicked off with Steve Wheeler’s (intentionally over-polarised) post suggesting we should stick two fingers up at the centralised VLE. Posts from James Clay, Matt Lingard, Lindsay Jordan and many others swiftly followed.
Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace
If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I [...]
Portfolio assessment in the age of the computer
On the PCHE course, a major component of the assessment is the portfolio. We have to maintain this portfolio throughout the course, and include reflections on our learning and teaching experiences, along with anything else we feel is relevant, such as clippings from articles and planning materials from sessions we’ve taught. At the end of [...]
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 PCHE graduate [...]
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 [...]
Does Wikipedia have a place in education?
Like it or loath it, people use Wikipedia. Some use it as a quick reference for unimportant matters, or as a jumping-off point for more detailed research. Some use it, inappropriately, as a source in its own right: English Heritage was recently criticised by Building Design magazine for citing a Wikipedia article as evidence in a [...]
Teaching with social media: engaging the audience
Do you like having an audience? I know I do: that’s at least part of the reason I’m writing this blog post.
The social web has greatly lowered the barrier to entry for those of us who want an online presence, and given us the greatest possible chance of reaching an appreciative audience through, for example, [...]
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