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Click to show pictures bigger. Old pic.; younger me Old me; younger pic. Alternative picture at a serious workshop Studying interaction Interactive learning (about dinner) at a Hong Kong workshop Why people live around Glasgow: 1   2 At Loughborough with important researchers My own office is tidy, dammit, but then I'm not such an important thinker. A great thinker, Anna Sfard	Stephen W. Draper, School of Psychology, University of Glasgow in Scotland (part of the U.K. and Europe). [More contact details, including directions to my office.] Psychology with a lisp?: phycology The Institute of Unnecessary Research Unnecessary Research Institutes Beyond mere clarity: automatic postmodernism Blog: "Tomorrow's professors" Blog: learning and (US) community colleges	I love students (honest), but some of them require more effort than others ... Wilde joke If you don't fancy my advice, and don't want to self-diagnose as a tripolar serenoid paraphrenic, then try this universal psychiatric helpline: listen Exam threat to grandmothers Flipping the classroom The brain science of zombies Some jokes or sayings about learning and teaching. Not educational: a bareskin. "Where facebook acts as a conversation, Twitter is like a narcissist with a megaphone." quotes   Failure   Anxiety management Test artificial laughter
Learning and Teaching Innovations you should consider adopting right now
EVS (Electronic Voting Systems) / PRS / "clickers": gadgets in lecture theatres.	PAL (Peer Assisted Learning) PAL at GU Peer mentoring 1 2 Third subject project	Assessment by pairwise ranking (a.k.a. "ACJ")
Assessment and Feedback REAP Project website Assessment principles Hanscomb's virtues	The most vigorous intellectual work on education here, (since Alex Johnstone left and his centre died) is the CCSE (Centre for Computing Science Education) led by Quintin Cutts. I have a set of pages about its reading group, and the issues we discuss there. Educational Podcasting, and then so much more.	Student retention and dropout Student generated PDP   PDP Graduate Attributes Relationships between themes (maps) Research-teaching linkages (a Quality Enhancement Theme) Our main pages My personal pages
Positive psychology My psychology option course on this ASMR which basically is about the peculiar comfort of watching some vacuous videos and the soothing response this produces in many people. "mHealth": The intersection of PosPsy, mobile technology, health interventions. A new R&D area, being born, but currently still academically homeless. Matt Barr He has shown that playing certain video games increases students' scores on some graduate attributes.	Index of most of the things I've written including a burst of papers Index to ’most all of my pages on local educational innovations / issues L&T Innovations (7) to adopt now Find out what the granny cloud team is.	Peer interaction and teaching computing The Jigsaw classroom technique for getting students to teach each other. The Advancing Academic Writing project.
The friends I've most relied on in developing ideas in the area of educational innovation. Uninitialised

This Steve Draper is an academic in the Psychology School at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. I have done research on HCI (Human Computer Interaction), IR (Information Retrieval), on using technology in learning and teaching and how to evaluate that; but now focus almost entirely on theory and practice of learning and teaching in HE. My teaching is mainly on education issues in HE, and on positive psychology. I have lived in a London suburb (where I grew up), Brighton, San Diego, and Glasgow, with brief periods in rural South Africa (near Eshowe) and New Haven, Connecticut.

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