Academic Practice Reading

Annie Murphy Paul: Why Teaching Someone Else is the Best Way To Learn | TIME.com : One of those obvious but very powerful ideas - the Protege Effect 'via Blog this'

    From: e-Learning Research [mailto:ELEARNINGRESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Whittington, Katie Sent: 25 June 2015 14:26 To: ELEARNINGRESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Learning: Research and Practice   Hello,   Routledge would like to welcome one of our newest journals: Learning: Research and Practice . To celebrate the first published issue of Learning: Research and Practice, we have made Volume 1, Issue 1 free for the whole year !   Learning: Research and Practice aims to be the journal of choice for empirically supported learning theorisations that challenge the existing view. The intent is to support distinct and progressive research that responds to the problems of current educational practices and traditional views of learning. It seeks to publish articles that introduce innovative perspectives in due recognition of the intellectual history of the field, and grounded in empirically supported investigation...

http://teachingandlearninginhighered.org/2015/05/28/when-students-dont-answer-a-question-what-does-the-awkward-silence-mean/

Mick's website has a number of useful resources and now includes links to these archives which still contain useful subject specific information, reports and resources.   David   Apologies for cross-posting   Dear Colleagues   Have you ever wondered what happened to all those great resources accumulated over more than 10 years on the 24 UK Subject Centre websites?   The good news is that the websites of two Centres are still maintained – Economics; and Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS); and 16 other Centres have archived their websites.  That leaves six which appear not to be available.   I have added a complete list with links to those still available to the resource page of my website www.mickhealey.co.uk .   Hope the list will be useful. If anyone has a link to any of the missing six sites please get in contact.   Best wishes   Mick   PS I've been amazed that the bibliogra...

A new issue of the IJeP, a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal, is now available online at         http://www.theijep.com/current.cfm   The following articles comprise  Volume 5, Number 1  of IJeP:     Instructional Articles Preparedness Portfolios and Portfolio Studios: Supporting Self-Authoring Engineers          Brook Sattler, University of Washington           Jennifer Turns, University of Washington A Holocaust Exhibit ePortfolio: Actively Engaging          Melissa Jordine, California State University, Fresno Development and Sustainability of ePortfolios in Counselor Education: An Applied Retrospective          Ann E. Luther, University of Nebraska at Omaha         ...

Very good, brief summary of activity theory http://www.teachthought.com/learning/how-the-activity-learning-theory-works/

Journal of Pedagogic Development : New Edition: Vol 5, No 1 (2015): JPD 5(1) Table of Contents Papers Open Futures: An enquiry- and skills- based educational programme developed for primary education and its use in tertiary education M. James C. Crabbe, Lucy O'Rorke, Eamonn Egan, Ali Hadawi PDF   HTML The learning approaches of A Level History and Geography students analysed: a Report from a Sixth Form College David William Stoten PDF   HTML I am not a superhero but I do have secret weapons! Using technology in Higher Education teaching to redress the power balance Michelle Blackburn PDF   HTML ‘So, you want us to do the marking?!’ – peer review and feedback to promote assessment as learning Caroline Elbra-Ramsay, Anita Backhouse PDF   HTML Teaching Programming with Computational and Informational Thinking Greg Michaelson PDF   HTML Raising Awareness of Diversity and Social (In)justice Issues in Undergraduate Research Writing: Understanding Student...