The modular curriculum – what to do with all the bricks in the wall?
Author: Andy Pitchford. One of the great challenges that face those who work in education is imagining alternatives to the way we currently work. We are all so acculturated to the norms of the education that are promoted by the societies that we inhabit that it can be very difficult to see which aspects of learning are inescapable.
Celebrating Multilingualism at Westminster
Did you know that in 2021/22, there were 350,325 international students pursuing degrees in the UK according to the Higher Education Student Statistics (HESA)? Surprisingly, international students represented 22% of the total student population in the whole country (Universities UK).
Even better than the real thing? What’s the point of authentic learning?
“Authentic learning is a sham,” an experienced academic colleague tells me. “How can we pretend that what happens in my class, and what happens within a university generally, isn’t real life in some way?
The modular curriculum – what to do with all the bricks in the wall?
Author: Andy Pitchford. One of the great challenges that face those who work in education is imagining alternatives to the way we currently work. We are all so acculturated to the norms of the education that are promoted by the societies that we inhabit that it can be very difficult to see which aspects of learning are inescapable.
Celebrating Multilingualism at Westminster
Did you know that in 2021/22, there were 350,325 international students pursuing degrees in the UK according to the Higher Education Student Statistics (HESA)? Surprisingly, international students represented 22% of the total student population in the whole country (Universities UK).
Even better than the real thing? What’s the point of authentic learning?
“Authentic learning is a sham,” an experienced academic colleague tells me. “How can we pretend that what happens in my class, and what happens within a university generally, isn’t real life in some way?
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