Nathan Roberts
Head of Education Support at Cardiff University. Supporting our current Cardiff University courses and enjoying lots of the others.
Location Cardiff University
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
The third driver listed - CPD throughout careers - is only going to get more significant. Many UK universities have been slow to re-orient themselves as institutions that would be there throughout a graduate's life as they dip in and out of different types of micro-provision. Going online is the only way this can be done at scale, anytime/anywhere.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Dan Davies
Yes, I was thinking of some of the analogue unbundling that is part of the history of this: occupational health, NHS, work placement companies (I've seen contracted private providers look after students in industry). I'm sure there are lots of examples. The Students' Union is kind of unbundled too...
Digital vastly opens up the scale and access points.
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@SheenaMurphy Your point put me in mind of the promo vids for Studiosity, one of the big emerging players for 'unbundled' student support. Here's one of their tutors describing a similar motivation, to see students flourish, but it's all a bit speculative based on a 24 hour transaction...
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Prof Morris mentions the student perspective and will be keen to see this explored in the course and conversations. It raises the big questions of 'what is a university?' and 'how do students experience 'belonging' to a university?' Is that even a coherent thing now - or are they buying into a varied collection of experiences and digital services?
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Nathan Roberts replied to Tom Wheeler
Hi Tom,
Just to clarify, where fellow learners have flagged comments, and comments are deleted, it’s because they have broken the Code of Conduct. https://about.futurelearn.com/terms/code-of-conduct/
It’s odd to see this chain of polemical comments here at this time, when learners and the educator team are focussed on the first week of the course.
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Mark, I don't work in the field but are you looking for something like the Centres for Buddhist Studies, Jewish Studies or World Christianity at SOAS? https://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/ There are many other examples in leading universities worldwide. Come to think of it - SOAS are also FutureLearn course contributors - I'll mention to them the interest in other...
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That's certainly the case, Susan A! New courses are being added to FutureLearn all the time from the contributing universities. The main criteria being: will this be an engaging experience for learners? I'm sure courses on other religions will join this one.
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Hi all. The team managed to answer lots of your posted questions.
For those who missed the live broadcast, the recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYodsgHH8I -
Hangout is now over. Many thanks for all your questions.
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Have also flipped a switch to make this downloadable - you should see the link underneath the video now.
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Hi all, to be sure of the start time for tonight's Hangout for your locality, check out the link below. The UK moved to British Summer Time (GMT+1) last weekend.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Community+Journalism:+Ask+the+Educators+1&iso=20150402T18&p1=298&ah=1 -
Hi Nicole - it's based on http://www.typeform.com/
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Hi all - note the archive version is available now on YT (has the slides embedded): http://youtu.be/qNm4ir6BuHw
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The archive quality, non streamed version is here now folks: http://youtu.be/qNm4ir6BuHw
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Thanks everyone! The livestream has ended. The archive of the streamed version will be there for you immediately, the higher quality non-stream archive recording will be up in a day or so.
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Big crowd, over 100, here to listen to Dr Allen this evening. Will start the broadcast at 7. Looks to be really interesting!
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Please ensure you are watching the proper archive versions:
Zia Salik: http://youtu.be/KBlzOL8JYS0
Humayun Ansari: http://youtu.be/mrO_NZ6Mw7Y
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor: http://youtu.be/1onNj6cAQNI -
Just to be clear: 'mentor' is the now preferred FutureLearn nomenclature for members of academic teams engaged in the discussions, as opposed to 'moderation' which is undertaken retroactively by FutureLearn staff. We updated titles to reflect this but there is no other meaning to be inferred from the change.
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Hi Ann, there's a link to a higher quality recording now: http://youtu.be/1onNj6cAQNI
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Hi Andrew, a member of the audience asked a question which covered very similar ground so I hope Dr C-C's answer gives you something of a response.
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Questions asked from floor (a bit quieter in the stream audio)
- women's access to mosques
- theological verses, readings: lost in translation?
- other indications of patriarchy, eg female heads of state? Imams? Prophets?
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I'm not going to touch anything!
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Hi all. We'll be starting shortly. Fingers crossed that Google Hangouts behaves for us
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Nathan Roberts replied to john wild
I just caught Abyd's joke! Hilarious
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Hi Edis, there's some text on the provenance of the film here: http://bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/series/64
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Sorry to hear that the course hasn't met your expectations.
I'm sure you'll appreciate that with thousands of learners, many of whom will have not studied this topic before, editorial decisions have to be made on what to fit into four short weeks. The very positive feedback the team received from the previous run of this course - and from many learners...
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Hi all, the HQ archive video of the video is now here: http://youtu.be/mrO_NZ6Mw7Y
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
Hi all, a few people have asked about the maps. You can access the ONS census data in map form here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/interactive/census-map-2-1---religion/index.html
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Nathan Roberts replied to Irene Croly
Hi Irene - you can access the maps at: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/interactive/census-map-2-1---religion/index.html
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Should be back now. The archive recording will fill in the few minutes where the live broadcast dropped out.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Anne Peters
Hi Anne, there's a transcript for the video in the 'Downloads' section below.
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Video is up folks, see the link in the main text.
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Point taken here - thanks. We relied on Monday morning's email to spread the word. Will give more of a heads up for the forthcoming ones (which will be on subsequent Tuesday evenings 7pm GMT). Be great if you could join us.
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Yes, a transcript too (though they take a few more days to produce)
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Hi all, just to re-iterate: we'll be posting a high quality version of the lecture in the next day or so (taken with a separate camera/mic than the live stream. Apologies for the sub-par sound on the Google Hangout!)
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Hi, I'm in the lecture hall. Is sound ok now?
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Nathan Roberts replied to Henriett Magyar
Hi Henriett, this is linked to later in the course but a good place to start is Prof Gilliat-Ray and colleagues' study "Bringing up Muslim Children": http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/uploads/docs/2010_06/1276680685_Scourfield_Project_Findings_Booklet.pdf
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Nathan Roberts replied to Michael Hardman
Hi Michael. There's more on Quilliam next week but wanted to note here that it has actually reopened now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-28018673
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
Hi all, I'm happy to pass on any additional questions posted here during the live session, so continue to ask away!
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Nathan Roberts replied to Susan Woolard
Hi Susan, I've added the links below the video now. Hope this helps!
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It will all remain online for you to access later, Nigel.
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Try refreshing the page Gordon
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But feel free to post here too and I will pass on to the team
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#flcommunityjourno is the hashtag
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Nathan Roberts replied to Brian King
Those are amazing
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Nathan Roberts replied to Warren Smith
That made me chuckle, Guy!
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Nathan Roberts replied to Karen Lewellen
Did you get things working Karen?
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Kate, I replied in another thread too but just in case: I've put all the transcripts in Word format here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4l0toh0yyp1l31n/TVQkHDPuhU
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Nathan Roberts replied to Kate Stephens
Hello Kate - sorry you've had trouble with the PDFs.
If you go to: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4l0toh0yyp1l31n/TVQkHDPuhU I've put up all the transcripts for the course in Word format. Hopefully these will be more accessible to you.
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Thanks, I added this to our ever-growing list!
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Thanks! Done.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Fiona Barton
Hi Fiona, the transcripts are available in the Downloads section under the text.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Jean Camp
Hello Jean. A few things to try: restart the web browser on your pc/tablet. If that doesn't help, perhaps try another browser programme (the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox or IE will all work fine).
If you still have issues, please click the 'feedback' tab and then 'contact support'. Hope you can get things working!
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Thanks Francesca - have added this to the list.
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Thanks Cristiana - have added this to our list.
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Thanks Petra - I have added this to our list of links in the text.
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
Thanks to everyone who has offered links to statistical agencies in their own countries. I am adding these to the list in the text.
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Hi Moses, if you click on the 'feedback' tab and then 'contact support' they will help you with your problems accessing the videos. I hope you can get this sorted out.
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FutureLearn's technical support will be able to investigate this. If you click on the 'Feedback' tab on the left side of the screen, there is a 'contact support' link. Thanks.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Leigh Horton
The link should work now, Leigh. Thanks
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Nathan Roberts replied to Sue Gough
Hi Sue, I think your web address got chopped: http://www.bedfordnetwork.co.uk/ seems to work. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Alfiee, have you had a look at the 'Area Profile' section of http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ ? That should give you comparable data.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Oliver Tatlow
And what are you if you criticise the Islamophobeophobes? :)
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Thanks James - fixed.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Jill Nancekievill
Good for you Jill! I think it will pay off in terms of helping you to process the course materials and your own perspectives.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Roger Denning
Thanks Roger. And here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ynts2
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Nathan Roberts replied to David Balch
"I have added comments asking for educators and other influential followers to condemn outright these atrocities".
Do you mean you want the academic team of researchers from Cardiff University to 'condemn atrocities' Alan? The course team clearly have to make editorial calls on what to fit into a four week, introductory course on Muslims in Britain such as...
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Nathan Roberts replied to teresa bradbury
Welcome, Teresa. Hope you enjoy the course. There are others just starting so please do contribute to the comments and discussions if you can.
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
Welcome to all who are just starting the course! We do hope that you enjoy it.
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That sounds really evocative.
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Thank you for sharing this, Mustafa.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Rachel Cunningham
Welcome to the course, Rachel
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Nathan Roberts replied to Oliver Tatlow
I'd like to draw a line under this as I would hate to see this comment thread on reflections on the Muslim Museum Initiative timeline derailed by an interrogation of the 'truth' of people's beliefs.
In terms of our academic framework for the course, of understanding history and experience, it is not relevant. Prof Gilliat-Ray's introductory videos to each...
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Hi Susan, I hope you find the course flexible enough to go through at your own pace. We are still seeing good discussions in the earlier parts of the course so don't feel you are out of the loop.
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Hi John, there is a section on diversity (religious, ethnic, cultural) coming up in week 3 so please stay tuned!
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
For those that wanted to delve a little deeper into this theme: we've just added two (entirely optional) lectures in the related links section under this article.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Peter Harding
Thanks the feedback on this. We're learning all the time about people's preferences.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Lyn Adams
Thanks Lyn! There's no proof-reading quite like thousands of learners focusing on the text!
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Nathan Roberts replied to lynn brogan
Hi Deborah,
I've uploaded the transcripts as Word documents here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vt61uivuaf40qrm/iuNhwhOek6
Hopefully this will help you in your note-taking.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Briday Peers
Thanks - corrected!
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Nathan Roberts replied to Eirini Fonte
Welcome Eirini! Learners are joining us all the time so don't feel that you are in any way late or behind. It's a feature of the course that people can progress at their own pace. We hope you enjoy it.
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Have amended the text to clarify. Thanks for your keen eye, Noelle!
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Nathan Roberts replied to Deborah Shaw
Thanks for your suggestions and really helpful feedback Deborah. We'll pass them on to FutureLearn.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Linda Gilbert
Transcript should be there now Linda. Thanks.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Umeda Zhumanazarova
Welcome to the course Umeda! You are not late, the course is there for you to follow at your own pace. Lots of people have joined us today for the first time.
Each part of the course has a 'next' button that will take you through the different sections. There is a video and article in the next step that will tell you what you need to know about getting...
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Nathan Roberts replied to Jill Nancekievill
Translation should be there now!
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Nathan Roberts replied to Zainab Kashi
Hi Zainab - you would be very welcome to use these tips in your own teaching.
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Nathan Roberts replied to Graham Hughes
Hi Amr and welcome to the course! The focus of the course is on learning about the beliefs and practices of British Muslims and how they shape their lives, rather than interrogating people's individual beliefs. We are all fellow learners, hope you enjoy the course and the community!
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Nathan Roberts replied to Anindita Adhikary
Given the confusion and Mansur's explanation of the ordering, I have edited the text to leave the numbering more 'open'. Thanks all.
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Nathan Roberts replied to glenda green
Learners will have different motivations and expectations but, in this instance, the team at Cardiff University opted not to have a paid certificate option for this course.
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Nathan Roberts made a comment
Hi all, just to clarify: the course team felt that they would like to keep this run of the course free in all aspects so we have not opted in to the paid certificate option that other FutureLearn courses provide.
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Hi Stephanie, it's an important issue and in week four of the course we'll be looking specifically at the representation of Muslims in the British press.
