The 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) was recently held in Montreal, Canada. For a span of five transformative days, from June 10 to 15, we embarked on a collective journey, exploring the ever-shifting terrain of educational paradigms. Amidst this dynamic backdrop, I witnessed the harmonious merger of twoContinue reading “Re-connecting with my Learning Sciences Community”
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Enhancing learning through targeted rest breaks
Rest is increasingly recognised as important for performance, wellbeing and learning. Rest breaks can happen over a range of timespans, such as a holiday taken over many weeks, sleep overnight, a walk in nature over a few hours, or getting up from your desk for a coffee break taking just few minutes. In workplaces, methodsContinue reading “Enhancing learning through targeted rest breaks “
Dreaming the Future: The Role of Speculative Fiction in Shaping Education – Part 2
In Part 1 of this post we considered how speculative fiction might help us to imagine and move towards our preferred educational futures. This year, the Postdigital Science and Education journal published a collection of speculative vignettes, or ‘education fictions’ (Hrastinski & Jandrić, 2023). Three of these were written by academics in the BusinessContinue reading “Dreaming the Future: The Role of Speculative Fiction in Shaping Education – Part 2”
Gamifying Hybrid Classes for Student Engagement
Hybrid classes may have increased in quantity but not quality post Covid-19 Before the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) literature discussed a move to hybrid classes, however this was not a very common research concern (Bates, 2019). Post-Covid, discussion of teaching and learning in hybrid modes has grown rapidly.Continue reading “Gamifying Hybrid Classes for Student Engagement”
Dreaming the Future: The Role of Speculative Fiction in Shaping Education – Part 1
How might speculative fiction help us to imagine and move towards our preferred educational futures? In Part 1 of this blog post we look at the ‘what, why and how’ of speculative fiction.
Research in the backyard: Integrating research & evaluation to (re)shape Business Education
The University of Sydney Business School’s: Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group (DI BERG) mission is to “interrogate the future of business education and how the forces that shape the role and focus of Business Schools influences how we design for a better education”. This blog will show how targeted program evaluation data canContinue reading “Research in the backyard: Integrating research & evaluation to (re)shape Business Education”
The Joy of Learning & Teaching – Part 2
This week marks the completion of our 5th annual Learning and Teaching Forum at the University of Sydney Business School. Our theme this year was, as our title states, the joy of learning and teaching. And what a joyous occasion it was. Playful learning After a very heartfelt welcome to country by Aunty Joan BellContinue reading “The Joy of Learning & Teaching – Part 2”
The future of education: Is it in the Basement?
Having shiny new EdTech tools is all well and good. Brilliant even. That is, if we assume that all have equal access to this tech-power, which as we know, is not the case. As we saw in the pandemic, our places, our learning spaces differ enormously. As educators and students, we need to talk aboutContinue reading “The future of education: Is it in the Basement?”
Reimagining the student experience
Our understanding of people who study at universities, and their experiences, are often shaped by a range of context-specific and broader demographic categories. Targeting specific groupings are often central to university agendas, policy and funding; and are informed by large quantitative datasets on student experience. Whilst important, overemphasis of these categories have particular implications forContinue reading “Reimagining the student experience”
Leveraging the possibilities of ‘learning at scale’: Future proofing business and management education
This call for papers invites submissions to a special issue of the Journal of Work Applied Management. We welcome practical case study-based articles that demonstrate quality learning experiences in large business and management learning contexts. We also invite conceptual, empirical and viewpoint pieces. At scale contexts Work-applied management methods such as action learning, work-based orContinue reading “Leveraging the possibilities of ‘learning at scale’: Future proofing business and management education”