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Confessions of a first-time wiki contributor
‘Strewth mate’ This week I was contributing to a wiki for the first time. Here are some things you might like to know about wikis: – wiki comes from a Hawaiian word meaning ‘fast’ – there are over...
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A bit of inspiration for a Monday morning
Here’s a wonderful video put together by James Lamb to represent the manifesto for teaching online of the MSc in digital education at Edinburgh University: (Here’s a text link too: A manifesto for...
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Do you know your free riders from your social loafers?
Until this week I would probably have said that ‘free rider’ and ‘diligent isolate’ appeared in the lyrics to the Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Motorcycle Emptiness‘. And that social loafers was a brand of...
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Reclaiming the language of learning
Neil Selwyn’s ‘bullshit bingo’ card Being a student at a research conference like Networked Learning 2014 is a bit like being the bloke from work who the bride and groom invited to the wedding but they...
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Online assessment: it’s complicated
So that’s semester two of the MSc in digital education done. Online assessment was a challenging but enjoyable subject, with lots of lively debate and activities. Here are five things I think I’ve...
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Time to hit the (e-)books again
So the leaves are turning here in Scotland, there’s a nip in the air and the kids are watching Strictly Come Dancing. It must be time for the MSc in digital education to start again, woop! I’m about to...
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Old habits die hard
I’m constantly surprised by how old-school my learning habits are. When I started my MSc in digital education last year I thought I’d be reading and sharing articles entirely online, perhaps using some...
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Strategy and ‘anti-strategy’
I’ve just started the final course for my MSc (‘Digital Education Strategy and Policy’). Week 1 has thrown up many interesting questions, including this one: what exactly do we mean by strategy,...
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Planting spring bulbs in concrete
I’ve just finished ‘digital education: strategy and policy’, the last compulsory course in my MSc in digital education. (Next up: the dissertation, eeeek.) One metaphor from the early weeks of the...
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Given that most of the posts on this blog concerned my MSc in digital education, I’ve decided to give it a new, separate home at https://stuartallanblog.wordpress.com/. Please hop over there if you’d...
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