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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