online learning – Mark Carrigan

Students Jury on Online/Pandemic Learning: Thoughts To Consider

I’m taking part in a Students Jury on Online/Pandemic Learning tomorrow. I’ve been asked to prepare some ideas about what students should keep in mind when formulating recommendations for how their department approaches these issues for autumn term in 2021.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

The relevance of Erich Fromm for online learning during a pandemic

I was struck recently by how much Erich Fromm can offer in understanding online teaching. In his To Have Or To Be? Fromm distinguishes between two orientations to the world, the eponymous having and being, which manifest across the full range of human activity. The former is a matter of […]

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes