I recently gave a Talking Teaching presentation on how we embed ‘Learning Fitness’ skills and values into the Change Makers curricula and learning design. Continue Reading
Category: News
Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’
As part of this SRHE event on 3rd April 2019, I gave a talk about my paper ‘Understanding The World Today‘ – broadly covering what interpretive dance, ribbon and getting thrown out of a club have to do with navigating a world of fake news. Continue Reading
Teach Someone to Fish…
This post was featured on the Society for Research in Higher Education blog in March 2019. Continue Reading
Understanding The World Today
‘Understanding the world today: the roles of knowledge and knowing in higher education’ has been published this week in Teaching in Higher Education
Our Team is Growing
We are very pleased to introduce a new member of our Change Makers teaching team. Continue Reading
Case Study: Active Learning Design
We recently faced a challenging teaching situation – accommodating 170+ individuals for the opening session of a highly interactive and student-led module, in a raked lecture theatre with a 150 seat capacity, poor acoustics and very limited access in and out of the seats. Continue Reading
Change Maker in Chief
This week has seen the publication of the first issue of a new Imperial College publication – D/srupt. Continue Reading
Exploring Challenging Topics
We’re really pleased that the excellent work of our third and fourth year Independent Project students has been recognised in a recent Imperial College news article. Continue Reading
The great potential in linking learning to real-world experiences
Real life breeds real experiences. Yet the studies that are discussed in laboratories, libraries and lecture theatres can feel removed from the social world outside. Continue Reading
Service Design for Education
This year I was pleased to collaborate with the Royal College of Art to act as an Expert Witness in the field of Education for a final year design project. Continue Reading