Monday, January 07, 2019

Plans for 2019


Back into the fray after some rest and re-creation in the NZ mountains. Looking forward to another busy and productive year.

The first item to complete is to ensure the programme documentation for our new Graduate Certificate / Graduate Diploma in Building Information Modelling is approved for delivery for the middle of the year. I will also be working with various teaching teams to complete their teaching and learning plans and first delivery of their programmes. These include the new Master in Sustainable Practice which will a blended approach based on principles of ‘networked learning’ and the level 6 Diploma in Interior Design, which will also have a blended approach.

Reviews across the sector and within my institution will also generate activity. Change always requires adjustment to the socio-politics of new ways of doing.

The main objective this year is to complete a book for Springer titled: Processes, pedagogy and technology-enhanced vocational learning: Learning and teaching a trade. This book, summarises the work I have been doing across the last decade on understanding how people learn how to become trades people. I have been beavering at the draft chapters from late last year and hope to have most of it done by Easter. To assist the process of completing the book, I will be embarking on a short sabbatical at the end of the year. I hope to have completed the draft of the book by then and will work on refining the book after it has come back from peer review.

Conferences include one at the end of March in Germany for the biannual convening of the International Network on Innovative Apprentice. The annual AVETRA conference is on in Sydney in June and perhaps one later in the year.

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