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Shedding light on the scholarship of teaching
No full textMatt Offord believed what everyone said about academic promotion, rather than reading the guidance. Now he traces the contours of other myths that keep academic staff from rewarding teaching-focused careers
The Learning, Teaching and Scholarship Podcast: Choose your own SoTL adventure
No full textMarie McQuade and Alison McCandlish interview Matt Offord, Senior Lecturer in experiential leadership education about his approach to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Matt shares challenges and successes of his own SoTL journey
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Escape Room- STEM challenge India-Scotland
No full textThis link will take you to an Escape Room challenge we created through a collaboration between University of Glasgow, School of Education and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER Pune). We challenge you too! This escape room is an adaptation and the outcome of a knowledge exchange between the authors Gabriella Rodolico @DrRodolico and Peter Donaldson, and Sarah Honeychurch, Matt Offord and their student intern and collaborator Amy Cairns who created the original file.
One of the most recent effective Problem Based Learning strategies
based on gamification is the ‘Escape Room’ (Pearcy et al., 2019). The
educational version is based on players who have to collaborate to achieve an
educational goal in order to complete the “game” in a time constrained manner
within a scenario created by educators and related to the intended learning outcomes
(Veldkamp, et al., 2020). Recent evidence suggests it not only enhances
engagement but also motivation in several Higher Education courses
(Dugnol-Menéndez, et al., 2021; Veldkamp, et al., 2020). Escape rooms can also
enhance learning processes and leadership skills in student teams (Järveläinen,
and Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, 2019; Warmelink et al., 2017). It might be argued
that this may be true only on a face-to-face basis, however a recent review on
Digital Educational Escape Rooms (DEER) showed that “DEERs are innovative,
promising, immersive, active, and collaborative instructional approaches that
can guide and shape learning achievements more greatly than traditional
educational methodologies” (Makri, et al., 2021, p.18)
In other words, both traditional face-to-face escape rooms and
their digital counterparts, are considered a student-centered strategy where
the requirement to work collaboratively to gain “freedom” can promote student
engagement (Premo and Davis, 2018).</p
The Value of Outdoor Learning
No full textIn this month’s episode of Tap’d Talks HR, Anthony speaks to Leadership & Management Educator Matt Offord. Anthony and Matt discuss the value and impact of outdoor learning and the concept of Ecopedagogy. Drawing on his 30 years experience in the Royal Navy, Matt shares why the outdoor environment can be extremely powerful for leaders and managers
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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