Fewer New Zealand teachers

In Japan, teachers are automatically given respect (Facts and Details, 2014). Them choosing to have become teachers and having done the trai...

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Boyer’s Dimensions of Academic Scholarship

The centre of academic scholarship has been defined as the "ability to think, communicate, and learn" (Boyer, 1990, p. 15). Being ...

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The thorny problem of Word marking sheets

In a previous shared office a colleague always looked for the EASIEST way to do things. He had a very disruptive and creative approach to ...

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Selling versus Telling

An old video uploaded by Performance Consultants to the video platform, Vimeo, shows British golfer, Sir John Whitmore, demonstrating the ar...

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Online student engagement solutions

In my last post, here , I discussed having attended an online training session hosted the Tertiary Education Commission to help us better en...

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Online Student Engagement Cycle

Last year I attended an online training session hosted the Tertiary Education Commission to help us better engage online learners during Cov...

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Systematising simple requests

When we are managing regular, similar requests, having systems in place - like an HR Kiosk, if you will - enables us to shift the simple, re...

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Countrymen, lend me your ears

Last year I read an interesting article by Jonathan Zimmerman on the Times Higher Education site. It was written like a Rip Van Winkle story...

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Learning Styles are bunkum

Educators have a tendency to talk about Fleming and Mills (1992) learning styles of auditory, visual, kinaesthetic and digital learners, or ...

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Using VLookup in Excel

Do you have related data which you have to regularly - and manually - add to a marking sheet? I use Excel to mark, and need both the student...

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Deleting all document comments in Word

I have written about this before ( here ), but I had a student stuck with how to delete all comments from a draft recently. So I created som...

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Keyboarding is a time skill

Following on from my last post ( here ), another element of digital competence is keyboarding. We could call it 'a key component' th...

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Digitally incompetent

Computerisation is a skill now required in most jobs available. Digital competence, or skills with computers, have transformed the tasks tha...

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Super Mario and Mindset

While looking for something completely different, recently I ran across this TEDx talk by Mark Rober, on - what he calls - the "Super...

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Confirmation of candidature

Tara Brabazon from Flinders University in Adelaide runs a weekly video blog, which has been running for four and a half years, packed full...

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The History of the World

Ah: I am coming late to this party, but - just in case you haven't heard of this resource - Columbia University has a series of lectur...

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