ICLS in Singapore
Photo by Nicolas Lannuzel For the last week I’ve been in Singapore, at the 12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. I kicked off the week as a respondent on […]
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WordPress course writing and eportfolio space
We’ve been doing work to develop a space (‘CIC-around’) to allow students to: Collate posts, so a portfolio can showcase existing work Provide access control, to ensure the work can […]
Using Google drive and doctopus for whole-class group and individual tasks
Today’s latte, Google Drive. By Yuko Honda (CC-By-SA) I recently ran a class (in our excellent Arguments, Evidence, and Intuition undergrad subject) on finding and manipulating data. As part of […]
Thinking about genre with students
I’m planning to do some work with students to encourage them to think about genre in their profession. (NB: See comment on this post for outcome of an activity based […]
Writing Analytics: LAK & EDM workshops
It’s a sign of the times that we now have two independently organised workshops on Writing Analytics in 2016, connecting two sister communities to the topic with their slightly different […]
UTS model of learning (writing): Writing for data scientists
At UTS we have a model of learning, that is built on in the ‘learning.futures‘ programme, both of which target course-based graduate attributes: An integrated exposure to professional practice through […]
Writing a white paper or discussion paper
What types of writing do professionals engage in? What professional practices of writing should students entering those professions encounter? How can we support development of appropriate professional writing skills? These […]
New output: Epistemic commitments in written texts
Conference paper accepted to ICLS, with some wonderful international co-authors and collaborators (Laura Allen at Arizona State, Karen Littleton and Bart Rienties at the OU, Dirk Tempelaar at Maastricht, and […]
Elaborating an evidence hub for writing practices
Open Education Evidence Hub An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they’ll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, […]
Cleaning essays in R (ish)
“Should I worry about this?” I’m currently working on a corpus of student essays. We want to run various analyses on these essays, but for that to work we […]