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Professor Andrew Middleton

@andrewmid.bsky.social

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NTF, PFHEA, PhD - Educator and innovator committed to improving the higher education experience for teachers and students. Active learning, authentic learning, multimodal learning, and experiential learning. Photographer, printmaker and musician.

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Jan 17

Spatial Fluency & the Student Journey

This post reflects on outcomes from the Harnessing Multimodalities in Higher Education project, which was funded by the QAA as a Collaborative Enhancement Project (see the QAA website for more on the project and the toolkit we created). It was written in…

Spatial Fluency & the Student Journey

This post reflects on outcomes from the Harnessing Multimodalities in Higher Education project, which was funded by the QAA as a Collaborative Enhancement Project (see the QAA website for more on the project and the toolkit we created). It was written in response to a colleague's request to map spatial fluency to his work on the student journey. It is structured around concluding remarks given in a presentation for the…

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Jan 9

Choice, and more than choice - opportunities to negotiate their reasoning. Sorry to have missed the chat.

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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · Jan 8

Links very nicely to what we’ve been talking about on the #lthechat in the last hour

Alice Keeler @alicekeeler.com · Jan 8

🚢 Students need to feel like they’re part of the crew.

Give them choice:
⚓ What to work on
🌊 How to work on it
🌟 Sometimes, when to work on it

How do you build choice into your lessons?

🚢 #EdTechCruise

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Jan 9

After my keynote today someone suggested I should think about hosting a podcast. :-) I have been podcasting since 2005!! Maybe that’s why I talk so much.

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · Jan 6

Join us for this week's #LTHEchat which will explore ways in which we can meet the challenges of implementing feedback in Higher Education with @profsallybrown.bsky.social and @kaysambell.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Read the blogpost at: lthechat.com?p=6877

Image of a word cloud relating to feedback

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Jan 8

Looking forward to presenting at University of Greenwich Shift Conference tomorrow on #spatialfluencies and #multimodalies www.gre.ac.uk/learning-tea...

SHIFT 2025 | University of Greenwich

Join us on 8-9 January 2025 for our annual learning & teaching in Higher Education conference

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Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social · Jan 8

Less than a month to go until the deadline for submissions for our new conference exploring critical perspectives on Research in Digital Learning. The submissions system is now open.

Please share 😀

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RIDLHE Conference -

Research in Digital Learning in Higher Education is a new conference, launching on 3rd-4th September 2025 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social · Nov 14

✨ Want to keep up with fact-checking, coverage of misinformation and media literacy? ✨

Check out this starter pack. Feel free to suggest anyone who I should add!

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 20

tactilelearning.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/d... #socmedhe24 reflections

Developing digital leadership

Photo cc: Enriquez Alarcon on Unsplash In a world of convincing deep fakes, developing digital literacy can longer be simply a matter of individual skills and knowhow – graduates need the cap…

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 19

Well done @dralison.bsky.social and @suebecks.bsky.social for a great day #socmedhe24

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Katie Piatt @katiepiatt.bsky.social · Dec 13

Find out what the #PlayLearn folk have been up to and note some dates for your diary in 2025!

December update! – Playful Learning Association

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Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 19

@amitaylor.bsky.social #socmedhe24 how are we going to take students on who have been shut out of SocMedHE? Partly thru our networked pedagogies and spirit.

Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 19

#socmedhe24 yes @amitaylor.bsky.social we need to keep defining new normals and avoid retrenchment

Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 19

The story of the conference and network is better understood as storieS and non-linearaty #SocMedHEConf

Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 19

Listening to @amitaylor.bsky.social #SocMedHEConf - the lockdown put our knowledge at the centre of what we did next. Exactly. Impact colleagues!

Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 19

Reflecting on #socmedhe and how the network came out of #melsig #LTHEchat and #byod4l - we needed physical home… #SocMedHEConf24

Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 13

Hi Mark - I finally fled the other place

Professor Andrew Middleton @andrewmid.bsky.social · Dec 13

My workshop at #socmedhe next week will connect ideas about space to our experiences of social media for learning in higher education

I will be running a workshop this year at #SocMedHE

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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · Dec 12

I am a excited because on the 8th of January @kaysambell.bsky.social
&I will be doing the 1st ever #LTHEchat on BlueSky talking about feedback.If you’ve never been on 1 before in the other place,we post a blog in advance & from 8-9 pm uk time we post 6questions for a worldwide community to answer

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Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference @socmedhe.bsky.social · Dec 10

Time is running out to book your place at the 10th Social Media for Learning in HE Conference on Thursday 19th December. We're down to the last few places. Once they have gone the conference will be full! #SocMedHE24

Full details about the conference are at blogs.shu.ac.uk/socmedhe/soc...

a blue hourglass with blue sand pouring out of it .

ALT: a blue hourglass with blue sand pouring out of it .

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