oliviadep

Learning Designer, #MScDE student @eddiged

[oliviadep @livdep]

@ItsMiasTweets @EdinburghUni Massive congratulations Mia!!

[oliviadep @livdep]

@leonardhoux Mmm I see! Therein lies one of the potential paradoxes of ‘business education’, perhaps. Which has made me wonder if we highlight this contingency enough in the courses I work on.

[oliviadep @livdep]

@HGCarbonel @BernardineEvari I’ve also recently re-realised this, along with ‘writing=thinking’, and it’s given me a new boost on all things dissertation-related, and dissolved my feeling so daunted by it all!

[oliviadep @livdep]

which is probably right, but how else would I tell you all about my epiphany?
Also helping: Spotify’s ‘Mozart Study’ playlist which is providing just the right level of calming background noise, as my dad recommended Mozart would 😊 @elernenmuzik (5/5)

[oliviadep @livdep]

#mscde 🧵Today, I have ACTUALLY concentrated on dissertation work, and I reckon reading this article (in a course I’m working on!) is at least part of why I actually knuckled down. (1/5)

https://t.co/hbWtYy3a8J

[oliviadep @livdep]

THIS IS WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING TO ME! 🤦🏻‍♀️ or what I’ve been doing. Now that I know this, I am more conscious about leaving my phone out of arm’s reach, on silent, while I have actual stuff to do. SO OBVIOUS, yet somehow it wasn’t. Article also recommends quitting social media (4/5)

[oliviadep @livdep]

💥 I’m gonna bust this out whenever I talk to faculty who seem reticent about including more diverse voices (and confronting climate change) in their course materials.

[Sandra Abegglen @sandra_abegglen]

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it & by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new & young, would be inevitable - Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Education

[oliviadep @livdep]

I don’t think I have ever achieved one of these ‘real hours’ in my adult life!

[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

Real hours v fantasy hours
Real = head down,no emails, no internet, closed door, no interruption. Focus on 1 thing.
Fantasy = social media, interruptions, fragmented time, multi-tasking.
2 Real hours = about 10 Fantasy hours
Get real. #PhDchat #ECRchat #PhDforum #postdoc

[Neil Mosley @neilmosley5]

"If the goal is to get people to watch videos to completion, then it stands to reason that shorter videos will be conducive to that end. But it is one more step to argue that these shorter videos will lead to better learning outcomes." https://t.co/E1DvNnqOoj

[oliviadep @livdep]

Wow wow wow, this is a very exciting prospect! 😍

[Tim Fawns @timbocop]

Towards Ecological #Evaluation of Online Courses: Aiming for Thick Description

Preprint chapter w @CMSinclair. Going beyond market-driven surveys & output measures, to thicker descriptions, accounting for more educational elements & their interrelations
https://t.co/tZf2GI8Lfc

[oliviadep @livdep]

As I have been tussling with sociomateriality in recent weeks, reading this did indeed help to ‘both bring human agency back into the frame and continue to eschew deterministic and celebratory accounts of ed tech.’ And with more textile-based metaphor, an emergent theme!🧵#mscde

[oliviadep @livdep]

‘Social theory makes much of the weaving metaphor. But if we foreground non-human material agency without paying sufficient attention to the asymmetry and range of human agentic capacities, are we in danger of weaving the Emperor’s New Clothes?’ Great paper by Hawley #mscde 🧶🧵

[oliviadep @livdep]

‘For it is the weft of our continuous feelings, desires, reactions and reflections as we interact with the material world and each other that produces life’s rich tapestry.’ I can’t pretend to fully understand the Heidegger involved in this paper but 🧵 https://t.co/J2cmVDBSRK

[juliette levy @profjuliette]

Enough great instructional designers can make a big difference when a campus invests in instructional tech. But that’s not enough. Faculty & students need better & broader support; tech has to be responsive, nimble, safe (ie better), & everyone needs time. Much more time.

[oliviadep @livdep]

😂😭😅

[oliviadep @livdep]

Extending this, still with wool in mind: As you try to untangle, there'll be moments you don't see how you'll ever get out of it. You will feel like giving up. Persist! Or as Mitchell and Clark say: 'Let your reflections permeate, experiment, and expect to fail, then try again.'

[oliviadep @livdep]

The editorial upon which this builds contains a metaphor that greatly appeals to me (surprise surprise): 'Writing well is often difficult, even messy. Tangled. It becomes untangled the same way a box full of wool gets untangled--one strand at a time. One word at a time.' 🧶#mscde

[Academics Write @academicswrite]

More on Qualitative Writing from me and @DrAlexMClark in @IJQMonline Writing is also method and the act writing inspires interpretation and narrative.
https://t.co/UzgIX5igF6