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In this episode of 'Digital Comfort Zone,' hosts Aine McGlynn and Lizz Bryce discuss the importance of maintaining a learning mindset in the age of digital transformation. Special guest Professor Nick Mount from the University of Toronto shares insights on fostering a learning culture, handling resistance to change, and the importance of new experiences in unlocking innovative thinking. 00:47 The Importance of a Learning Mindset 01:34 Personal Challenges with Learning 03:31 Research on Learning Behaviors 05:07 Interview with Professor Nick Mount 08:05 Teaching Strategies and Learning Environments 14:08 Adapting to New Learning Methods 26:13 Final Thoughts and Takeaways Read the full transcript here
Dr Nick Mount is Academic Director at the University of Nottingham Online. This is a strategic role which heads the University's multi-million pound investment in online learning for all. By trade, Nick is a physical geographer and Associate Professor of Hydroinformatics. He has worked far and wide striving for sustainable peace through socio-physical-political systems. Nick is also an established folk musician, having played guitar for Northampton's now dis-banded folk band The Cordwainers. Join us as Nick gives us his views and perspectives on curriculum design, digital learning, and a future of micro-credential learning. Nick Mount: University of Nottingham Linkedin ResearchGate Nick's Punk (metal actually) Song of Choice – Iron Maiden, Aces High --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roger-kerry/message
I met with Professor Nick Mount at his University of Toronto offices in "Toronto" to discuss his book Arrival, The Story of CanLit. We talk among other things about the pronunciation of Toronto, the non-Toronto-centricity of his book, Alistair MacLeod, the CanLit boom, early Canadian writers publishing first in the United States, novels that are so bad they're good, the 1960s, history turning into myth, academic versus commercial success, reviews of the book, Margaret Atwood's Survival, prosperity versus affluence, 1959 and 1974, economics and the arts, the Massey Report, the Canada Council, universities, Jack McClelland, the influence of Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, Arrival's sidebar star system, the erasure (or not) of Blackness, and Aboriginal works, from the CanLit canon, Austin Clarke, dotted points of light, #metoo and the Bahamas. Photo by N. Maxwell Lander
Sound Collage #1: On May 27th, 2016, I anchored my last regular morning mix on the airwaves that gave me life - Bloomington, Indiana’s community radio station, WFHB. This sound collage marks the occasion. Five years worth of people, ideas, and feelings that were important to me all those times behind the microphone.Music by D SMILEZ, Blue Dot Sessions, In Vitro, Steve Combs, Podington Bear, and Running Point courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Other music samples from Craig Finn, Mitch The Champ, and the Bouncing Souls.Selected clips via Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, Lucha Underground, The Chris Gethard Show on MNN, interviews with Prince and David Bowie, Nick Mount at the University of Toronto, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, Enzo Amore, The Best Show, Hollywood Handbook, Why Oh Why on WFMU, Nights And Weekends, Bray Wyatt, 30 Rock, U-Haul, Cosmic Kids Yoga, Julia WD Harrison and Beautiful/Anonymous, Party Down, Buffalo 66, Fargo, some tourism ads for Minneapolis, Minnesota that I found on YouTube, Andrew Cambron and Allison Stone for Lazerpointersaurus on WFHB, Mike Carmichael at the World’s Largest Ball of Paint, The Larry Sanders Show, and House Bar.
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". The lecture was part of his Literature for Our Time series and was delivered at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, on Feb. 12th, 2009.
University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". The lecture was part of his Literature for Our Time series and was delivered at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, on Feb. 12th, 2009.
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, in conversation with author Sam Lipsyte. The interview was taped following Mount's lecture on Lipsyte's novel Home Land
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, in conversation with author Sam Lipsyte. The interview was taped following Mount's lecture on Lipsyte's novel Home Land
English professor, Nick Mount, provides insight into Sam Lipsyte's novel Home Land. The lecture was part of the Literature for Our Time series at the University of Toronto.
English professor, Nick Mount, provides insight into Sam Lipsyte's novel Home Land. The lecture was part of the Literature for Our Time series at the University of Toronto.
Dr Nick Mount on using data to model how rivers behave.
Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.
Big Ideas presents University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth.
As part of the Literature for Our Time series, University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount examines Ariel, Sylvia Plath's posthumously published collection of poems.
As part of the Literature for Our Time series, University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount examines Ariel, Sylvia Plath's posthumously published collection of poems
Nick Mount discusses Eden Robinson's debut novel Monkey Beach which was nominated for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award.
English professor Nick Mount analyzes T.S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land.
English professor Nick Mount presents us with an examination of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and how it became a post-war, modernist masterpiece
As part of his Literature for Our Time series, English professor Nick Mount discusses Virginia Woolf?s novel To the Lighthouse.
As part of his Literature for Our Time series, University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount discusses Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount discusses Samuel Beckett?s controversial play Waiting For Godot.
University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount discusses Samuel Beckett?s controversial play Waiting For Godot.