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Danielle M Hinton 🇦🇺🌏
@hintondm.bsky.social
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Principle Educational Developer at the University of Birmingham. PGCHE programme deputy dir, #FaithLed, #learningdesign #SOTL #LTHEchat, PhD student HE research, 🇦🇺 in 🇬🇧. 🐈‍⬛🐨
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I am really enjoying the atmosphere in #WelcomeWeek here at @unibirmingham.bsky.social and especially the epic #RedStack #ModernArt done well.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Enjoying a LES (University of Birmingham) Away Day focusing on education.
July 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Enjoying a LES (University of Birmingham) Away Day focusing on education.
July 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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More #Sustainabiity thinking here at the University of Birmingham #125birthday #UoBXtra #Lego #LSP
June 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We are ready at University of Birmingham for #UoBXtra with Lego Serious Play to explore #Sustainability

Hosted by Dr Salma Ashour from the Business School 🌿🐟🏭🧑🏽‍🦰👨🏻‍🦱👨‍🦳
June 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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It’s been a good working week. It ended by a catchup in person with the awesome, inspiring and kind @maryjacob.bsky.social ❤️. It was extra nice to explore Winterbourne Botanic Garden whilst talking about our shared passion for teaching in HE.
Danielle (left) and Mary (right). Mary has epic long hair that is white, purple and blue. She is wearing a blue top. Danielle has comic effect green glasses and a Zuri African dress that has a pattern that looks like Covid.
June 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Enjoying greatly and being inspired by the University of Warwick’s Education conference. Also it was a plus not having the travel to Lancaster to listen and be inspired by
@paulashwin.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#BookShelf Systematic Literature Reviews: Why I Rejected Your Review
Dr Joseph Crawford

Especially useful to beginning educational researchers

open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
May 31, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Today’s thinking 🤔
April 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🆕 Dickens, E., Han, A., Shafiq, N. & Taggart, J., (2025) “Curriculum developers: An emerging subset of educational developers”, To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development 44(1): 5. doi: doi.org/10.3998/tia....
April 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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🆕 Horizon-Scanning Report on the Changing
Demographic and Pedagogical Profiles of
Current and Emerging University Students
and the Responses of the Global Higher Education to the Generational Challenges

A report by Professor Peter Bryant.

www.ndln.ie/changing-dem...
April 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Your view wins 😆
April 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Developing interdisciplinary consciousness for sustainability: using playful frame reflection to challenge disciplinary bias

#sustainability #LTHEchat

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Developing interdisciplinary consciousness for sustainability: using playfulframe reflection to challenge disciplinary bias Annemarie Horn , Marjoleine G. van der Meij , Willemine L. Willems , Frank Kupper andMarjolein B. M. ZweekhorstAthena Institute, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands SUSTAINABILITY: SCIENCE, PRACTICE AND POLICY2022, VOL. 18, NO. 1, 515–530https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2095780
March 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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How cool is it that your University Library has the exact ebook you want to read on a writing Saturday morning? I adore learning about learning.

The Instructional Design Trainer's Guide: Authentic Practices and Considerations for Mentoring ID and Ed Tech Professionals - Stefaniak & Reese
March 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#Bookshelf Renn, K.A. and Smith, B.R., (2023) #Ecological models in higher education research: Overview and synthesis. New Directions for Higher Education, 2023(204), pp.11-22.

#Bronfenbrenner #Process #Person #Cpntext #Time

Read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Fig. 2 Three-dimensional conceptual model of the chronosystem and the macrosystem in relation to the other levels. Based on #Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological systems model with the chronosystem (and the macrosystem) depicted at the center and as the third dimension.
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Fig. Integrated model of student resistance (IMSR) from “Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for
Understanding and Helping Students”.

Edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling
Model with student resistance at the centre. Factors that feed in and out include metacognition, cognitive development, negative classroom experiences, environmental forces plus institutional culture. Book cover with a pencil in a question mark
March 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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#TALTbookshelf The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures
Colin Loughlin

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this case study evaluates a lecture series on its intrinsic qualities, looking at staff and student understandings of the lecture's contribution to academic outcomes and the affect attendance has on students' study habits. The study took place within a health sciences module at a UK university. Data sources included lecture observations, interviews, focus groups, a survey, and institutional documentation. The conceptual framework used in the analysis is Snyder's Hidden Curriculum, in which the formal curriculum of knowledge creation, is undermined by implicit expectations which foster instrumental learning behaviours. The findings indicate that the low demands placed on staff and students in transmissive lectures encourage an illusion of attendance' - in which assumptions of learning from, and physical attendance at, large-class lectures are greater than empirical data evidence.
February 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Reading and reflecting on #LearningEcologies through the writing of Norman Jackson and many others.

Ch 5 The Concept of Learning Ecologies in Lifewide Learning, Education & Personal Development
Her definition of a learning ecology enriches Siemens limited concept of ecology as a space by emphasising what happens in that space, the set of contexts found in physical or virtual spaces that provide opportunities for learning. Each context is comprised of a unique configuration of activities, material resources, relationships and the interactions that emerge from them' (Barron 2006: 195).
February 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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#LearningDesignFrameworks #ParticipatoryDesign

Developing a conceptual framework for participatory design of psychosocial and physical learning environments (2016)

Tiina Mäkelä & Sacha Helfenstein

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Interested in the "Ecology of Inclusive Education"?

Dig into Chapter 2. The #Ecology of Inclusive Education: Reconceptualising #Bronfenbrenner (Anderson, Boyle & Deppeler in "Equality in Education : Fairness and Inclusion" 2014.

Bham: ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bham/rea...
Equality in Education : Fairness and Inclusion book cover Fig 1. The Ecology of Inclusive Education p. 28
February 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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#TALTbookshelf Practising in an evaluative culture: an autoethnographic study of pedagogical practice in higher education

Jane Pye

Teaching in Higher Education Critical Perspectives
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
The prevailing culture in UK higher education is one of evaluation and performativity (Ball 2012). This study uses an autoethnographic approach to explore how working in an evaluative culture influences the pedagogical practices of a teaching-focussed lecturer. Data were generated in the form of memory data, self-observation/reflections and professional conversations with three colleagues. Social practice theory is used as a theoretical and analytical framework. Findings suggest that overtime, my academic identity has become characterised by resistance, a desire to be creative and work with autonomy to counteract the evaluative culture of higher education. I suggest that academic identity is significant in understanding and shaping pedagogical practice in university settings.
February 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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A5 #LTHEchat “change in the culture of our learning environments is required… we must each assess our training environment to identify the values transmitted by the hidden curriculum in our institution. If these values do not parallel the formal curriculum, we must ask why and implement change”
February 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A3 #THEchat “Educators have always considered education as… a socialization process, quietly transferring social norms and values to the student.” The #HiddenCurriculum can have deep ramifications for all students. Think medical students and ethics (extreme eg the Nazis).
February 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A2 #LTHEchat ID through social calibration / moderation?

“we are teaching far more than we know. Every word we speak, every action we perform, every time we choose not to speak or act, every smile, every curse, every sigh, is a lesson in the hidden curriculum”
February 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Is anyone familiar with the “The European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN)”, its outputs and its current status?
A model of the moon located at the entrance to the University of Porto in Portugal
February 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM