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Category: Education

UAB Guest Lecture: Teacher education and globalisation

November 19, 2018 nick.kelly Leave a comment

Slides from my guest lecture with the Masters of Education Policy students at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in…

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Posted in: Education, Presentation

We need to take teachers’ basic psychological needs seriously: Examples of research supporting teachers’ self determination

November 18, 2018 nick.kelly Leave a comment

This post is based on a seminar presented to the Globalisation and Education and Sociology Policy (GEPS) group at the…

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Posted in: Education, Research Filed under: design based research, education policy, self-determination theory, teacher education

How to design online courses for student engagement

November 2, 2018 nick.kelly 1 Comment

I had the great pleasure of working with Neil Martin over a number of years, during his project investigating the way…

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Posted in: Design, Education, Research
teachers in social network sites

Studying teachers in social network sites: Thinking about methodology

August 30, 2018 nick.kelly Leave a comment

There is an entire genre of journal articles about how teachers in social network sites are behaving, what they’re doing,…

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Posted in: Education, Research Filed under: facebook, online groups, social media, social network, teachers, twitter

How design thinking can help teachers collaborate

May 6, 2018 nick.kelly Leave a comment

I wrote this article with Les Dawes, Natalie Wright, and Jeremy Kerr for The Conversation about how design thinking can…

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Posted in: Education, Media Articles, Research Filed under: design thinking, teacher collaboration

Economic thinking in education and its degrading/corrupting effect

September 12, 2017 nick.kelly Leave a comment

This piece on economic thinking in education was originally published on the EduResearchMatters blog of the AARE under the title…

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Posted in: Economics, Education, Media Articles

Presentation: Online support for STEM teachers

June 12, 2017 nick.kelly Leave a comment

On Friday 9th June 2017 I had the opportunity to present some of the ideas that have come out from…

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Posted in: Education, Presentation, Research

Understanding the role of markets in education

June 5, 2017 nick.kelly 1 Comment

This post continues my attempts to understand how educational economics are shaping our understanding of education. This is a philosophical project…

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Posted in: Economics, Education Filed under: economics, education, markets, Michael Sandel, morals, pricing, teacher

The Educational Economics of School Choice

April 9, 2017 nick.kelly 3 Comments

Ever since Friedman’s work on the educational economics of school choice (Friedman, 1962) the debate has gone round in circles about the merits…

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Posted in: Economics, Education, Research

Online learning networks of preservice and early career teachers

April 5, 2017 nick.kelly 1 Comment

I’ve realised that I’m yet to put up here on this site a plug for my own book (co-authored with…

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Posted in: Education, Research

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