As part of my participation in the ocTEL on line course, I have started on a risk log, spurred on by news that the hardware chosen for the project will be Mac Books. Very shiny! but in a module where I want to teach digital skills - including how to use the University's normal computing environment (based wholly on PCs, Windows and Microsoft) this seems an odd decision to say the least...........
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Sunday 16 June 2013
Why "Not to Scale"?
This blog will focus on the SCALE UP project I am going to be involved in for the next year - or longer.
SCALE UP apparently stands for Student Centred Active Learning Environment with Upsidedown Pedagogies. It is also about large scale problem based learning. Professor Beichner in the US has developed the model in a way that fits particularly well with teaching physics in the US Higher Education system.
How this will work in the UK with Social Sciences students we have yet to see.
I have many reasons, at this point, for wanting to be involved in this project, but I have no idea how it is going to turn out.
Not to Scale is a phrase used to label maps and diagrams to warn viewers not to take what they see too literally.......By reflecting on our learning from this project, hopefully we can discover as much about what works well as "how not to" do Scale Up.
SCALE UP apparently stands for Student Centred Active Learning Environment with Upsidedown Pedagogies. It is also about large scale problem based learning. Professor Beichner in the US has developed the model in a way that fits particularly well with teaching physics in the US Higher Education system.
How this will work in the UK with Social Sciences students we have yet to see.
I have many reasons, at this point, for wanting to be involved in this project, but I have no idea how it is going to turn out.
Not to Scale is a phrase used to label maps and diagrams to warn viewers not to take what they see too literally.......By reflecting on our learning from this project, hopefully we can discover as much about what works well as "how not to" do Scale Up.
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