Inspired by a Tweet I read recently about the distinction between a thesis and a PhD, I have been thinking about the difference between the two. The university really focuses on the thesis, which must : be of good presentation and style be a significant contribution to knowledge and/or to understanding demonstrate capacity to pursue […]
Notes on ‘You heard it here first’ seminar at the OU from Anne Adams. When considering research about innovation, is it catwalk or ready-to-wear? Is it ready to use off the shelf, an innovation that people can take up and use, or is it a catwalk approach, testing and showcasing what is possible without suggesting […]
It’s usually acceptable to have lurkers within a community – it’s never acceptable to have lurkers within a team. (Retrieved from my notes on the Virtual Doctoral School back in 2007)
Advantages of a blogged research journal Hyperlinks Link your research blogs to useful information sources Personalisation Use emoticons and images to personalise entries Categories and Search Find your notes quickly and efficiently Blogroll, RSS feeds, trackbacks and permalinks Link to other researchers. Ideas for a blogged research journal Community Posts Collaborate and link with other […]
I keep losing this, and I keep needing it. Forms of learning in a psychologists’ community of practice: They learn about psychologists’ resources and how to access these They learn the skills which are required of a psychologist They learn how to behave as a psychologist They learn how to think like a psychologist. They […]
I’m so used to Gill heading off to collect gadgets from around the university that I wasn’t surprised when she said she was going to pick up some tablets. Not until she said she was collecting them for her cats! I didn’t know she was researching animals’ informal learning with mobile devices. Oh – the other sort […]
OK – biting the bullet. I CAN read through my conference notes. I DO want to blog about this – especially the first presentation, which was so relevant to my work. Taking a stance: promoting deliberate action through online postgraduate professional development Peter Kelly, K Gale, S Wheeler and V Tucker, University of Plymouth See […]
I just logged in to FirstClass to see what was going on and in the vague hope that I would have received a message from my unhelpful gatekeeper. No such luck. However, logging on reminded me that while the gatekeeper claimed to have had no time in the past three months to OK a couple […]
Just been reading Guy Claxton, and that reminded me of the importance of emotion in education. Could I do an emotional analysis of the conference? Is it emotion that moves the students on, or does emotion get in the way of doing anything? I think, when a student gets upset about the deadlines, that stimulates […]
My reading of the DZX222 Help Conferences suggests a problem built into the online course idea. These days, we expect sotware and gadgets to be intuitive. If they’re not we get frustrated, angry and, more than likely, give up. Now, DZX222 has a detailed set of printed materials, as you would expect from an OU […]