Teacher as host: four things I learned about pedagogy from The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

A guest blog post for #HEBlogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in HE Learning and Teaching, University of Greenwich I bought Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering because I was attracted by the subtitle: ‘how we meet and why it matters’. As university teaching, as well as other activities, increasingly returns to an in-person [...]

By |2022-04-12T13:46:06+00:00October 12th, 2021|Education|0 Comments

Now you see me: are ‘webcams-on’ policies ever justified?

A guest blog post for #HEblogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Lecturer in HE Learning & Teaching at University of Greenwich | @EmmaKDev  Is it ever okay to compel students to turn on their webcam? It’s a question many have asked, and answered, and many great arguments have already been made (here’s one by Rebecca Barrett-Fox). [...]

By |2022-04-12T13:46:30+00:00October 14th, 2020|Education|0 Comments

Summertime…‌ ‌and‌ ‌the‌ ‌learnin’‌ ‌is(n’t)‌ ‌easy‌

A guest blog post for #HEblogswap by Dr Emma Kennedy, Lecturer in HE Learning & Teaching at University of Greenwich | @EmmaKDev  As some reading this may know, I’m coming to the end of four years working at Queen Mary, University of London (leaving to take up a position at the University of Greenwich). This [...]

By |2022-04-12T13:46:55+00:00September 11th, 2019|Education, Guest|Comments Off on Summertime…‌ ‌and‌ ‌the‌ ‌learnin’‌ ‌is(n’t)‌ ‌easy‌

#HEblogswap – Find a blog partner, write for each other’s blog and post – 13th September

Last year, Dr Emma Kennedy from QMUL (an Educational Developer) and I swapped a blog post on City, University of London's Learning at City and the QMUL ADEPT blogs . We are planning to do the same this year on 13th September. #HEblogswap - 13th September. Use this image to tweet the message below. [...]

By |2022-04-15T13:04:44+00:00August 30th, 2017|Education|0 Comments
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