Useful URLs for October 21st through January 27th

These are my links for October 21st through January 27th:

• Learning Through Digital Media – Collaborative open scholarship anthology about learning through digital media.
• Culture Club « Desktop – Desktop Mag article about what makes a studio successful.
• Research Skill Development Framework – This is very very good. Nuff said. Detailed matrix of facets and student autonomy to categorise/map research skills.
• :: NuVu studio – Boston located problem based learning driven studio for 14 to 18 year olds that is rethinking learning in the same ways that I am.
• TEXT Special Issue No 6 – Supervising the Creative Arts Higher Degree: Towards Best Practice. Good collection of material here.

Program Capabilities (2)

Cathy Cole offered a compelling rewrite:

Honours graduates will be able to contextualise, problem solve and respond to critical and creative questions relevant to communication, technology and various media. They will engage with and respond to ideas from their disciplinary base and extend this using their interdisciplinary and collaborative skills. They will have a deep understanding of research as a creative and critical practice as it relates to their individual field and discipline. They will be investigators who demonstrate academic rigour in their understanding of their own and other disciplines. They will bring skills and leadership to complex situations including the development of projects and learning and research activities in individual or group pursuit. They will have a deep knowledge of their field and of research praxis, an enhanced capacity to identify and investigate problems in contemporary media, communications and creative fields and will offer applied as well as theoretical approaches in responding to these.

And then Jeremy Y and Adrian M quickly sketched these:

As a graduate of this program you will:

• be able to creatively and critically develop meaningful problems within media and communication
• apply research skills and practices to complex problems
• work within interdisciplinary teams and be capable of making significant contributions as a collaborator
• have deep knowledge of your field and how it relates to contemporary media and communications
• know how to use research as an integral part of creative and critical practice.
• demonstrate leadership skills in your ability to develop projects and through your understanding of the processes that enable collaboration
• understand the strengths and contributions of your own discipline to projects and the value and significance of other disciplines
• be able to undertake sophisticated self directed research
• know why your research matters and how to express this in a variety of discipline relevant ways

And we mapped them as:

Program Capabilities (1)

Program Capabilities mapped

Jeremy Y. and Adrian M. used the things generated out of yesterday’s meeting to arrive at this. We are now moving to the writing.

Useful URLs for August 5th through September 28th

These are my links for August 5th through September 28th:

• The Future of Learning | Startl – Draft discussion paper come essay on education in the 21st century. Pretty much ticks every box that I aspire to in my curriculum design, teaching practice and the honours model we are developing.
• Course search – Research methods subject at Deakin.