Play in Progress | Dr. Mike Reddy
I am doing a CPD course on the revised way of working post-Covid-19 for next academic year, called USW DEAL (Digitally Enabled Active Learning). Our first task was to reflect upon the following article: “Let’s lose the deficit language about online education” by Tansy Jessop from the University of Bristol
I’m a big fan of WonkHE, especially the podcast, which provides an interesting and diverse take on the issues facing HE every week; I definitely recommend it, as a good way to scope all the blogs, etc, that get produced on their site, which can be overwhelming to keep up with otherwise. Guest posts range from very practical to highly abstract, but all useful. However, apart from disliking the term “pivot to” as it implies a degree of choice and control that might be lacking – swerve madly to take the right
Reading the critique of the Media handling of this sudden change of delivery in (or rather outside) universities, but also schools and colleges, of course, begs the question why a revolution in Education is being debated in the Press. My own take was that it was more speculative, rather than prophetic in nature. Calling it naive is dismissive though. There is a lot of rhetorical language in the piece – a LOT! Such as “within an inch of” – that undermines the argument; it is almost an ad hominem attack on al
Play in Progress | Dr. Mike Reddy