Rowan and I have been working through the unit that we are rolling out, getting the guide prepared.

After running over the previous content schedule, we spent some time thinking about parallel conceptions or alternative frames to hang them off, but decided to keep the previous narrative oriented frame.

As part of the project Rowan has been taken by the idea of “flipping”, so we are pushing a significant amount of content into a forum that we be driven by a key question each week.

This forum will provide a couple of benefits: social interaction, confronted by pluralism (which is a key concept in the course), scaffolding, engagement in reflection and discourse, the need to enhance their vocabulary especially in relation to key theological terms.

I will be taking on management of that forum which at present I think will involve the curation of the conversation by highlighting “good” engagements and drawing the conversation back to the concerns of the topic I am wondering if Salmon’s book or this one may be of help here.

We have spent a reasonable amount of time thinking about assessment and how that can be shaped by the technology. Another side of that is the large numbers that we a looking at (around 60) which impacts our workloads.

My primary provocation has been Biggs and Tang which has raised numerous issues relating to the intersection(s) of the fields I find myself in - philosophy, pedagogy, higher ed, theology, current trends in technology… lots to think about in this space. And then I watched this presentation by Will Richardson that throws more issues into the mix.