40@40 – A portrait of 40 years of educational research through 40 studies | BERA
http://www.bera.ac.uk/project/40at40
and great link to policy timeline pdf
http://www.bera.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/40@40-Timeline1.pdf
Monthly Archives: September 2014
BERA 40@40 A portrait of 40 years of educational research through 40 studies
Debbie Holley |
September 26th, 2014
The dynamics of gender, ethnicity and space: constructing meaning and identity in student transition.
Debbie Holley |
September 26th, 2014
12-Debbie-Holley Link to our abstract and slides on the BME student experience, also short article on how our research informs student inductions
BERA2014: interesting events, links and tweets
Debbie Holley |
September 26th, 2014
A fabulous 40th year @BERA2014, with good signposting of strands, keynotes and highlights, and all our favourite publishers present!
For me, the session with most impact was Danny Dorling talking about the 1% – brief summary here http://www.dannydorling.org/books/onepercent/
Danny recommends Thomas Pikerty work, and @HelenWalmsley) shared the link to review: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/28/thomas-piketty-capital-surprise-bestseller
Wiley have a great taster of the Don’t miss Review of Education, just publishing it’s second volume! Read sample here : ow.ly/BM3Ot
Dave Aldridge (@zudensachen) tweeted a link to his great blog piece on what is education for: http://davealdridge.brookesblogs.net/2014/09/18/what-is-education-for/
And our own Kathy Wright HEA contact has updated the ITE resource list http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/social-sciences/2014/09/19/resource-lists-for-initial-teacher-education-updated/
Kathy also points us to the blogs on the three TE projects here:
@UoBris_DDlab shared these links:
The nation suffers because our ruling elites are drawn from such a shallow talent pool http://www.suttontrust.com/newsarchive/the-nation-suffers-because-our-ruling-elites-are-drawn-from-such-a-shallow-talent-pool/
Independent Commission on Fees report reveals students from disadvantaged backgrounds 10x less likely to go to University http://www.independentcommissionfees.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=47
Our Assessment Fiesta 17/09/2014
Debbie Holley |
September 19th, 2014
Anglia Learning and Teaching: our assessment fiesta..
Twitter feed here: #LTAFiesta
Selected tweets and links:
Games in the classroom for assessment: http://supplychain.mit.edu/games/beer-game
Thanks to @fabioArico https://storify.com/FabioRArico/assessment-fiesta-anglia-ruskin-university-sep-201
Assessment for learning CETL www.alps-cetl.ac.uk invited workshop leader Prof Kay Sambell
And the wonderful Phil Races workshop notes:
http://phil-race.co.uk/anglia-ruskin-university-assessment-fiesta-17th-september/
And John Ward talking about audio/music tech and feedback – sound cloud to host student mixes.it’s free! https://soundcloud.com
Not forgetting @ProfSallyBrown – contact her for cultural chapter on assessment in her new book – for free!
Myknowledgemap conference here at ARU 18 November contact Sian.shaw@anglia.ac.uk
To self from ?@FabioArico : read Royce Sadler and Dylan William on assessment and feedback. (I’d add David Nicols! @debbieholley1)
Augmented Reality at ALTC
Debbie Holley |
September 7th, 2014
Thanks to Judy Bloxham @gingerblox and Allen Crawford Thomas (@allenrscwm) for leading a great session – we all got testing out resources in the session…https://altc.alt.ac.uk/conference/2014/sessions/augmented-reality-a-way-to-engage-and-empower-learners-571/
all their resources here: https://sites.google.com/a/jiscadvance.ac.uk/augmented-reality/
Tools to download before starting:
Zappar, Blippar, Layar
To create and host content: Aurasma: create an account and then follow Channels
Judy recommends: Living Learning, WSUK, South Staffordshire College,Myerscough
The JISC website lots of useful links and a blog http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/
