Tony Dowden

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The concept of curriculum integration has often been maligned and discarded but it keeps making a comeback. Why is this so?

Curriculum integration (CI) has been utilised by democratic educators because it maximises flexibility for curriculum design and, as research shows, it actively engages students in their learning...

02 February 2014 6,277 8 View

How do we improve higher order thinking skills among our students?

I find it concerning that some test and exams still mainly focus on the ability to rote learn information then regurgitate it. Bloom's famous taxonomy of higher order thinking starts with the...

02 February 2014 2,812 24 View

University students want feedback on how to improve assessment tasks but many report that written feedback is hurtful or unkind. Can we do better?

Research shows that it is a highly emotional time for students when they receive graded assessment items and read their marker's feedback. In the traditional university context, comment is cold,...

02 February 2014 650 24 View

What pedagogical strategies do others have in this era of 'massification' of high education in western (and other) economies?

Some students have less 'cultural capital' (Bourdieu) than others. They may be first-in-their-family to study, they may not know how to actively engage in their learning, they may suffer from lack...

02 February 2014 5,858 2 View