Can you check the author has made the very major revisions you asked for? I suppose so. Wait - what is this 387-page document I've been landed with?
Rebecca Ferguson
@r3beccaf.bsky.social
Open University professor emerita, making the shift over to podcasting, audio drama and fiction.
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
oh man, say it again. Workplaces should offer training. Universities are not training hubs.
hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is what makes me scream to the void every time ceos are like “students arent trained in workday or sap or our EMR system or” Motherfucker that is YOUR ROLE TRAIN YOUR WORKFORCE Universities make adults, not machine cogs
Enjoying #Strictly? Want some tips on giving #Feedback to your students? Want to hear three people talking about both together? Then listen to our latest #Pedagodzilla podcast episode www.pedagodzilla.com/is-the-feedb... With @mikecollins99.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social
Is the feedback on Strictly a fab-u-lous model for educators?
In this episode Mike, Mark and Rebecca take to the floor to ask whether the feedback dished out by the judges on Strictly Come Dancing is actually a surprisingly good model for educators. We look a…
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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
Life in Bolton in 1917 must have been very exciting because this story only made it to page 3 of the newspaper. The airman's only weapon of defence was a pair of nail scissors, he sang ‘Two Eyes of Grey' to a leopard, and baboons fought over his clothing
I love the broad reach of this course and the way it brings together educational experiences and expertise from around the world.
Fereshte Goshtasbpour SFHEA@gfereshte.bsky.social · 2w agoLook at the beautiful map of H890 (Research & Scholarship in Digital Education) students! #India, #Kenya, #Switzerland, #France, #Canada, #Kiribati, #UK, #Lesotho, #Samoa, #Zambia, #Mozambique. Can't wait to hear about their practices in #digitaleducation. #OUMAOT www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Every damn time. We all need a committee of "NO".
"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2w agoNow, just personally, I would have considered the crocodiles
Somehow, this reminds me of @scarfolk.bsky.social
Giulia Zornetta@gzornetta.eurosky.social · 3w ago“L’esigenza del parco di Fiabilandia in quel momento era quella di essere portato all’ampliamento e all’innovazione, ma non replicando pedissequamente quello che altri stavano cercando di fare altrove” www.parksmania.it/articoli-tec...
The Conversation gives me one button to click if I consent to cookies and (checks notes) 14 if I don't. And the additional option to make separate choices for six different partners. They 'only use your cookies to improve our service and ensure the website is functional' but one partner is Facebook.
10 days to go! Registration info www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Research and scholarship in digital education | Open University | H890
Develop research and scholarship skills by exploring online, blended, and technology-enhanced teaching, learning, and assessment in diverse global contexts.
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Fereshte Goshtasbpour SFHEA@gfereshte.bsky.social · last mo.3 weeks to go! Join us to earn a PG Cert in Researching Digital Education while preparing a PhD/EdD proposal or an application for a funded project! Alternatively, you can earn the certificate and continue on to our MA in Online Teaching. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate... #digitaleducation #OUMAOT
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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hey, I just met Zeus and this is crazy but he's a swan and I'm having babies
3 weeks to go! Join us to earn a PG Cert in Researching Digital Education while preparing a PhD/EdD proposal or an application for a funded project! Alternatively, you can earn the certificate and continue on to our MA in Online Teaching. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate... #digitaleducation #OUMAOT
UK HE institutions facing reductions in staffing & offerings. While the PM blithely makes claims about AI’s ability ‘to write an essay', an important contributor to economic growth and social peace is in deep trouble, due, in large part, to government policies. Spotted an error? Amendments welcome.
Watch me @sheilawebber.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social talk about the map of the Realms of Pedagogy from the pedagodzilla book at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOx...
Week 2: Exploring the Realm of Pedagogy: Part 1
YouTube video by Dr. Nellie Deutsch
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New Pedagodzilla episode – 'Would an AI Learning Design have helped the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?' www.pedagodzilla.com/podcast/woul...
Would an AI Learning Design have helped the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?
How can we ensure students are equipped to deal with AI? What are the benefits of incorporating AI awareness into our learning designs? What are the risks? How can we get the floor cleaned more eas…
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Big shouts to @ssrn.bsky.social for publishing a preliminary version of my thesis on unions and collective forms of welfare across the OECD. Also a major thank you to resmedia.bsky.social and @oulibrary.bsky.social for the ongoing support. Available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Royal Economic Society (@resmedia.bsky.social)
Promoting economics. Supporting economists. Improving diversity.
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"Move off + bivouac just behind our old front line" "Liverpool's blackest day' on the Somme, 500 Pals killed, including George Ferguson's near neighbour in Liverpool, George Harold Barlow, who he'd met by chance at few days earlier. More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/3...
30 July 1916
Move off + bivouac just behind our old front line CommentaryThe Liverpool Scottish doctor, Noel Chavasse, wrote home:I expect the next few days will be very busy ones. I pray God I do my duty. I ha…
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Oh no TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Goodies: Kitten Kong in London
ALT: The Goodies: Kitten Kong in London
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You can also read about it in the chapter How Does Problem-based Learning Help Buffy the Vampire Slayer... er, Slay Vampires? (co-written by @r3beccaf.bsky.social, @mikecollins.bsky.social, and @markchilds.bsky.social), from the OER-available #Pedagodzilla book. www.pedagodzilla.com/wp-content/u...
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Today's hot topic in the #OU_LD team is #ProblemBasedLearning. Which has reminded us of our own @mikecollins.bsky.social's fantastic #Pedagodzilla #podcast episode on the subject. www.pedagodzilla.com/schools-out-...
School’s out forever! How does Problem based learning help Buffy the Vampire Slayer? (Ft.Computational thinking)
Now here’s a Brucie bonus for you – it’s a pedagogy 2 for the price of 1 special! We’ve got Rebecca Ferguson, innovator of pedagogy and watcher of Buffy joining us to figure…
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An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron. From Mörigen, 900-800 BC. 📷️ me
Geologists have a higher death rate in movies than Sean Bean 💀 Of the 202 geologists in 141 movies released between 1919 and 2023, 69 die or are found dead, resulting in mortality rate of about a third. Movie geologists were mainly male, white and in khaki. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel
As geologists, our interest is piqued when geological processes—with varying degrees of accuracy—are portrayed in movies and especially when a geologist unexpectedly appears on screen, even in a mino...
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Ever wondered if there was an intersection between #VirtualReality and #TheOddyssey? Well, I made one! And in the process of writing my forthcoming book chapter about it, I had the pleasure of making my #Pedagodzilla debut with @markchilds.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social. Listen below 👇🏼
Mark Childs@markchilds.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf anyone is interested in #TheOdyssey now that Christopher Nolan has adapted it, just so you know we did a #Pedagodzilla episode about it last year with @dompates.bsky.social Listen to it at www.pedagodzilla.com/podcast/an-o...
Events I never expected to have an official artist. Alasdair Dallas was "the official artist on the King of Belgium’s Expedition in search of the tsetse fly and the King of Sweden’s Expedition in the Gobi Desert"
The last direct-line remnant of one of the particularly fighty smaller Military Holy Orders is 4 nuns living in a small house in Norwich. (At least that's how many, and where they were, last time I checked) So structurally the OPTION for the Pope to go full Adepta Sororitas is there, if he wants.
Rich May@richdmay.bsky.social · 3mo agoPretty sure this is how we end up with the Adepta Sororitas.