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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2024

This is a really interesting blog - I once had a colleague ask me if one of my papers about play in learning was peer reviewed so that "the best you can hope for is ambivalence" line really resonated with me. www.goonhammer.com/the-road-to-heid…

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2024

I've been doing lots of blogging lately, almost as though I'm planning on stepping away from work for an extended period to work on a new project . . . like baby number 2. jillymackay.com/post/return-of-the-…

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2024

I wrote a little blog post about imposter syndrome as I think about how I've ended up doing so much statistics in my day to day life. jillymackay.com/post/bayesian-impos…

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2024

Or the secret third option: maybe we need to really think about what practical skills students are coming to university with, how prepared they are to consolidate skills, and where we need much more holistic approaches to the teaching and assessment of practical skills.

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2024

Two: Maybe reflective surveys can't actually tell us too much about academic practice. I think this is less likely, but its worth considering

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2024

We think that there's a few likely explanations. One: Pass versus Not Pass is not a great measure of performance given how practical exams work, a student may have legitimate reasons for not passing first time, such as exceptional circumstances. Maybe we need more nuance to find the relationship.

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2024

Basically - there is no relationship we can find between how students SAY they studied or felt about an exam, and how they actually performed in the practical exam. Weird, right?

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2024

We have a new preprint available, a pre-registered methods study looking at the relationship between practical exam performance and academic practice, self-efficacy and self-esteem in vet students. The results may shock you! #EdResearch #Academia #VetEd osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/r7vug

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2024

🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example” Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2024

Have you ever been been told by an overly enthusiastic presenter that "55% of communication is through body language!"? They're lying to you. The study that's based on only tested women listening to single words. Modern management theory is largely based on bullshit […]

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2024

Wonderful, happy news everyone! Every Frame a Painting is back on YouTube! Long may this wonderful series continue. If you want to learn film grammar, I highly recommend this channel. youtu.be/mn2Dcy-NDTw

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2024

I am delighted to say that my school (R(D)SVS) has decided to leave Xitter. We are no longer going to be maintaining our school account there and this has been a decision made on principle as well. Such a great little positive piece of news IMO 💛

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2024

I always feel very complimented when someone uses my paper in an unrelated field to explain a definition of something - like "yeah, I did explain that well! Thanks for reading my random education paper".

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Simon Wood @mastodon.simonwood.info · 15/08/2024

[X, Higher Ed] Reinforced by everything else of the past week: “Institutions have a duty of care towards our students, staff and communities…Twitter, or X, is a place, somewhere people go to engage and interact. When we send students, and others in our community, there are we putting them at […]

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2024

We conclude that we need to be careful trying to instill more/different top-down definitions, and instead work with a framework (and we recommend one we like). But we also note that, particularly given the Office for Students' almost hostile attitude towards blended learning, we need to also […]

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2024

People generally agree about blended learning, and are pretty good at guessing what hyflex means even though exposure to that term was lowest. Hybrid however . . . wooeee, that one is confusing to folk.

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2024

This has been a very interesting project to be part of (for many reasons!) but I'm delighted to say we've preprinted our submission to #ALTC24 @A_L_T @emilynordmann.bsky.social‬ and I were interested in how educators understood the terms #BlendedLearning #HybridLearning and #HyflexLearning so […]

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Jilly MacKay @jillymackay.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2024

I decided to blog a bit about our new THE article - some of the slightly more political, and possibly less popular thoughts about UK HE, and how we need to think carefully about what draws students to learn. jillymackay.com/post/still-recording

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