Are you interested in using different tools of cultural transmission in a classroom setting? Look back at this chapter on using memes in education, , from the book 100 Ideas for Active Learning (Betts & Oprandi, 2022). The chapter proposes an activity in which students are encouraged to use creativity to explore the interplay between… Continue reading Idea #92: Memes in class? Using multimodal texts to feed open-ended creativity
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Exploring archetypal spaces for active learning in the holodeck
Vicki Dale1, Rob Lindsay2, David Watson2 and Tünde Varga-Atkins2 1Academic and Digital Development, University of Glasgow2Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool This year, we facilitated two staff development workshops during events for the Active Learning Network, inspired by Thornburg’s (2013) archetypal learning spaces, having first encountered these in Hewes’ (2013) blog post on… Continue reading Exploring archetypal spaces for active learning in the holodeck
APT Conference 2017, University of Greenwich
“The future ain’t what it used to be: inventing and re-imagining higher education practice” On 4th July, the fifteenth annual Academic Practice and Technology conference took place at the University of Greenwich. The theme of the conference this year was to explore some of the challenges and opportunities emerging from the changing landscape in Higher… Continue reading APT Conference 2017, University of Greenwich
The Active Learning Masterclass
On Tuesday 6th June, the Active Learning Masterclass took place at University of Sussex. The aim of the day was to explore recent practice in a range of areas that come under the broad umbrella of active learning. To find out more about what happened at this event and to access live streams of… Continue reading The Active Learning Masterclass
The Active Learning Network 