Tag: mentoring
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PhD Dissertation in Brief
The main purpose of my Action Research investigation was to better understand how post-secondary faculty mentor self-regulatory behaviours in a project-based learning environment (PjBL). The secondary purpose was to understand how the Action Research process supported faculty in their mentoring. Lastly, understanding learner perceptions of being mentored and how the faculty’s mentoring of specific self-regulatory…
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PhD Research
The map below represents a typology I developed with faculty at the Master of Digital Media Program in order to better operationalize the mentoring strategies they used to mentor self-regulatory behaviours from learners on projects with clients from the video game industry. I am now a PhD Candidate with all-but-dissertation (ABD) status, anticipating a defence…
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Choice and the Role of the Coach in Presentation
The motivation to write this week is that I’ve seen too many novice presenters who have been turned off from presenting because of negative and/or unhelpful feedback they have received in the past. Rushing to the defence of the critic, it’s only human nature to yell “speak louder” or “I can’t hear you”. However, presenting…