What Sheila’s seen this week: the homogenisation of engagement interfaces

Spoiler alert this post probably won’t be as good as the title.

Yesterday I was involved in running a workshop for our PGCert Learning and Teaching students on digital learning. One of the exercises we got the students to was to map their “learning and teaching” based on the extended Visitor’s and Resident model (more info here).  An innocent tweet of some the maps provoked a bit of a discussion,

Lots of engagement and discussions around mapping the learning and teaching attn @jamesclay @Lawrie pic.twitter.com/XPks3tjKLb

— Sheila MacNeill (@sheilmcn) October 20, 2016

which you can see in this storify.

But that’s a bit of an aside to the title of this post, though it was pleasing to see the engagement with the activity.  We try exemplify a number of different engagement modes throughout the workshop, and indeed my colleague Sam Ellis who is the module leader, is using a variety of different approaches both for f2f and online activities throughout the module.

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