Teaching

If I teach any sessions/courses I’ll add them here/as sub pages.  I’ll also be adding teaching materials here as I produce them.

Degree level and above

• Arguments, Evidence, and Intuition – Undergraduate level subjects 36201 and 36200
  • Autumn, Spring and Summers 2016/17- subject tutor and guest lecturer
  • Summer 2016 & Autumn 2018 – subject coordinator
• Data Science for Innovation – Masters level subject 36100
  • Autumn 2016 & Spring 2018 – lecturer
  • Autumn & Spring 2017, Autumn 2018 – subject coordinator
• I have delivered a number of sessions on ‘Writing Tools for Research Writing’ introducing writing analytics and technologies to support higher-degrees research students in their writing, e.g. based on these slides
• I ran a library data carpentry session on data literacy and getting started with teaching open data
• 2013 Epistemology and Learning Analytics – week on the Learning Analytics Online course, week outline, youtube replay of live session, and introduction to epistemology post – written for the week

Teacher education and classroom resources

• http://sjgknight.com/finding-knowledge/edusearch-tips/ Using the Internet to do Research – a 6 page Creative Commons licensed (BY-SA) teacher guide to search tasks in the classroom based on my MPhil research (November 2012). A shorter version was published in a book (see above)
• http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Special:Contributions/SimonKnight Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching (ORBIT) and OER4Schools contributions (2012)
• http://www.edfutures.net/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Sjgknight EdFutures Wiki – focussed on technology’s role as a lever for change in educational systems. In particular I was the primary contributor to the Learning Analytics page http://www.edfutures.net/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Sjgknight and from this, contributed to the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics (2012)
• Psychology Teaching Resources: http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/profile/4713/ (profile) (to 2011) (after March 2013 the profile is merged with my sociology profile here: http://www.resourcd.com/profile/3790)
• Sociology Teaching Resources:http://www.sociologyexchange.co.uk/profile/8910/ (profile) (to 2011) (after March 2013 the profile is merged with my psychology profile here: http://www.resourcd.com/profile/3790)
• I saved bookmarks relevant to my teaching at www.delicious.com/sjgknight – and have written on their use for www.psychnews.co.uk; the ATSS Newsletter (Feb 2011) advertised these as a useful resource (to 2011)
• The BPS research digest in 2011 listed me as a psychologist who tweets; my twitter activity is closely tied to my research interests: www.twitter.com/sjgknight
• www.psychnews.co.uk – in August 2010 Mark Holah (co-founder of psychexchange) invited me to join as a contributor to the blog – which posts news for psychology teachers. My contributions can be viewed: http://www.psychnews.co.uk/author/simon-knight (to 2011)

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