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• 22 Dec 11
  

  Rosy Borland

  constructive.alignment professional.development

  • Typically, staff development is undertaken in workshops run by the staff development centre…This is the fundamental problem facing SDCs: the focus is on individual teachers, not on teaching
  • oo often SDCs are seen from a
     Level 2 theory as places providing tips for teachers, or as remedial clinics for poor
  • or beginning teachers. Most recently, they are being replaced by training in educational technology, in the confused belief that if teachers are using IT then they must be teaching properly for the new millennium.
  • The institution must provide the incentives and support structures for teachers to enhance their teaching, and most importantly, to involve individuals through their normal departmental teaching in QE processes.
  • So, simply and without detail, I believe it is important that if a university wants to significantly improve the quality of the majority
  • if not all, of its learning and teaching then it is to create a context within which academic staff can’t but help to engage in reflective practice a
  • s part of their learning and teaching.

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• 26 Nov 09
  

  Kim FLINTOFF

  teaching university improving learning collaboration elearning technology flexible learning education

  • Most university teaching is crap. Too general, too sweeping? Maybe, but based on my experience I’m fairly comfortable with that statement. The vast majority of what passes for teaching at Universities has a number of really significant flaws. It’s based more on what the teaching academic is familiar with (generally based on the discipline experience) than on any idea of what might be effective.

     
• 10 Aug 09
  

  Claire Brooks

  link to good video. useful discussion about ca.
  # What the student is.
  This is the horrible “blame the student” approach to teaching. I’ll keep doing what I do. If the students can’t learn then it is because they are bad students. It’s not my fault. Noth

  biggs-tang constructive_alignment

• 03 Apr 09
  

  Lane Grann-Stahl

  personal blog advocating Contructive Alignment in higher ed; says currently is crap; good article

  constructive_alignment online_teaching

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