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Top 10 worst teaching mistakes

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments

One of the characteristics of HE teaching is that lecturers tend to teach in the way they were taught when they were undergraduates.  So if they were taught by inspirational teachers who saw the value of teaching, they are more likely to focus on inspiring their own students. If they were taught by lecturers who [...]

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Tags: Learning · teaching

Making it happen: teaching the technology generation

July 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

This is a video of my presentation to the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber on June 10th at Bradford University. The sub-title of the presentation was Beyond “no significant difference”, on the basis that, in education, we use technology to do things the same way as we have always done rather than [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · changing culture · teaching · tools