Getting ready for 2022-23

We come back to a mass of marking. We have our Managing the Assessment and Feedback Process PGCert LTHE individual projects coming in on the 12 September, the Negotiated Study Module projects and the MA LTHE Dissertations a week after that … alongside APEL (Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning) Interviews and written submissions to assess. At our university we offer APEL for FHEA and SFHEA – we also offer APEL against our PGCert and MA LTHE modules – which are themselves mapped and variously validated against A/FHEA. So it is busy!

Picture: Sandra Avatar in SecondLife University – It’s all virtual now!

So this is a very brief post. Just wishing everybody a happy new academic year – and offering a #shoutout to our friend and colleague Lee Fallin – who has just moved from a Learning Development role to a disciplinary one – teaching Research Modules within Education Studies. Lee is blogging about his move from ‘third space’ professional to formal academic.

The notion of LD as third space professional is beautifully argued by Helen Webster – and really if you have not read it before – take a few moments to read it now: https://rattusscholasticus.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/my-conceptual-model-for-learning-development/

Lee’s blog can be found here: https://leefallin.co.uk/2022/09/and-so-it-begins/

Footnotes:

Love this from @spencerideas on creating dialogic, Socratic classrooms: https://spencerauthor.com/socratic-seminars/

Oh – and we were interviewed by Carina Buckley and Alicja Syska for the @LDPpodcast – we’re episode 3: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/networking/the-ld-project-podcast/ – with podblasts from Kate Coulson and that John Hilsdon preceding us.