A beginning...

This is a diary of learning experience for my MA Education: Lifelong Learning module. Being a mad technotype it seemed a reasonable idea to put this together as a blog that can be updated from wherever I have internet access rather than carrying a book around with me all the time. Plus it will already be in a type written form if I need to quote from it or use extracts.

The initial idea for the assessment is to examine my teaching and learning in one or two areas and compare and contrast it. That, combined with a study of the relavent literature, should provide a solid basis for the assessment.

We will also be using action learning sets for this MA course and I have to admit I'm not sure how these will work - it's sort of group therapy for learning as far as I can tell. The general principle seems to be that a student brings part of their assessment work in and it is examined (in a structured, but informal way) by the rest of the group to provide avenues of exploration & new thinking. A sort of brainstorming excercise perhaps. It will be interesting to see how it works especially as my assignments are often hopeless until the last few weeks before the hand in date.