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CMALT Portfolio Review

Published 15th July 2024
Meme of rabbits fighting, juxtaposed with armed medieval bunnies
I would cite the source, but I have no idea where this meme came from

My CMALT Portfolio Review for 2024 has passed, woohoo! This was well overdue. I remember chasing ALT when they introduced the three year review policy back in 2016/17, as I was overdue but they were very relaxed about it, so I haven’t chased since and they’ve let me go six years. You would think with that kind of timescale available to me I wouldn’t have rushed it at the last minute. Unless you are one of my former OU tutors and you know perfectly well that I rushed it at the last minute. I am, therefore, very pleased to get the pass without revisions, and to celebrate I present one final medieval bunny meme.

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Who’s a Jolly Good Fellow?

Published 10th October 2017

Me! First, and most important component of my PG Cert in Academic Practice confirmed as a pass today, making me a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am now a Bachelor, a Master and a Fellow, and the HE sector has a problem with gendered language. Not sure what the solution is. I’ve been a Certified Member of ALT for years, which is lovely, but it doesn’t quite have the esteem of ‘Fellow’ which I’m genuinely proud of.

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Participatory Arts MOOC Evaluation and Board

Published 9th August 2017

An Introduction to Participatory Arts – the first presentation of the university’s first MOOC came to a close today. For students it officially ended yesterday, and today the MOOC leader, the principle content developer, and myself met in what was effectively the exam board for the MOOC to assess students’ final submission and award certificates of participation to those who had passed. There were only seven students, out of the 160 or so who were registered, which is a higher than typical non-completion rate for MOOCs, but this was a tough course, MA level content, so we weren’t too displeased. We will be following up with some of the students about the level of content and discussing how we can improve things in future presentations.

For a discussion on non-completion rates on MOOCs, and the reasons why, see this paper from Warwick University (PDF, 473 KB).

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The Results Are In – I Passed!

Published 6th March 2015

Just a little aside from the hurly burly of work and TEL to celebrate the fact that I passed the taught module on my MA English which I am doing through the Open University.

This was a double-length module and was assessed by five TMAs (Tutor Marked Assignments) which were aggregated and one EMA (End of Module Assignment) which I had to pass separately. The EMA was 5,000 words, so my largest piece of academic writing to date, and bridges the gap between prescribed assignments and independent research; there were limited options on texts and research areas which I had to choose between and then write my own question and proposal. My EMA was ‘How does Kim engage with the increasing British interest in Tibet in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century?’ and I passed with my highest score on the module, quite an achievement given that, roughly speaking, students are thought to drop around 10% on an exam or EMA.

My dissertation module starts in May and my thinking is either something around abjection or the ‘unheimlich’ in Gothic / horror literature, or the response to Scottish politics by Burns and Scott.

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