Education and neuroscience – limitations and opportunities

Here is a sketchnote of the podcast discussion on education and neuroscience between Neil Selwyn and Michael Thomas as part of the Meet the Education Researcher podcast. The podcast itself was really interesting for someone, like me, who knows little about neuroscience and its applications to education. In particular, the challenges of near and far … Read more

Sketch notes

After a bit of a hiatus from posting here, I have been experimenting with sketch notes and visual thinking. These two sketch notes are quick and fun responses to the daily doodle challenge from Scotviz. I am really just starting to develop my technique for sketch noting on paper and iPad but am enjoying the … Read more

Resilience & pedagogy

Resilience sketchnote

This sketch note maps some initial ideas linking earlier reading on resilience in higher education with Ian Kinchin’s ideas of pedagogical health and frailty. I am also working through his book that covers the same topic although I *think* we’re taking diverging views of resilience. [I’ll be updating this post later with some initial thoughts … Read more

Unbundling Higher Education

Returning to the topic of unbundling universities, this sketchnote is based on some of my notes from the Unbundling Higher Education Coursera course that I discussed here. The analytic approaches undertaken by the research project that underpins this MOOC gives a really useful starting point for studying the unbundling of universities. The study focused on … Read more