How quickly and easily would you find it to use?
As I am relatively eperienced with sing technology in learning, I think it would not take me long to figure out the various…[Read more]

My review of some of the e-Learning activities and their effectiveness as learnign tools.
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How are you planning on issuing the badges?

AS pessimistic as it seems, it is unfortunately the reality of our education system. It is by no means the fault of the teachers, who i’m sure would love to try and inspire their students through deeper learning techniques.

I suppose the flip side to the argument is this…would having the learners pass their assessments with…[Read more]

I think most of us would admit to being strategic learners for the same reasons you mention in your blog, I know I feel the same.

Definately taken a different approach to this topic, as always thoughts and comments (for or against) are appreciated

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I too would be interested to know about the participation levels on the group discussion and whether the participants utilised other forms of communication (eg. twitter?) more often than the forum.

I think wiki/webinar based projects can be extremely useful, however my concern is that they are very much a dedicated HE/ Adult learner…[Read more]

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http://intelligentideation.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/1-4-whats-the-theory-octel/

firstly, thank you for your comments and I’m glad the analogy made sense.

I think I must clear up that I am not bashing the iPad’s place in the classroom. I have used them in the past to both great success and great failure. My point in the blog was that, at their core, the iPad and the teaching machine are one and the same. Both…[Read more]

http://intelligentideation.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/1-3-teaching-machines-octel/

As always, happy for any comments either here or on the blog page

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Looking forward to reading these when I get chance.

Just quickly regarding your question on collaboration. My previous institution had a good structure when it came to CPD sessions. After continuous negative feedback regarding outside companies delivering CPD, the college put out a survey asking any members of staff if they would be…[Read more]

I think your point about social and autonomous learning being vital to study at HE is a fair point, however I would not just limit this to HE. In the past 18 months, there has been a big push in FE for tutors to showcase how they are embedding employability skills within their subjects. My response to this was to highlight the social and…[Read more]

@Andywilson48 – You really have pointed out the major flaw with the idea. How do we deem current practitioners to be of a good standard? Where do we find them?

I wouldn’t say all vocations are subjective. There is a definitive right way and wrong way to…[Read more]

One of the things that has always struck me about assessment is that it should, where possible, be authentic. That is, it should propose and assess tasks and skills that are similar to the tasks undertaken by real world practitioners.

I think this is an excellent point. If we are training learners to go into a particular vocation, then we should…[Read more]

I have put my personal reflections in my latest blog post here:
http://intelligentideation.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/1-1-reflecting-on-my-practice-octel/

Happy to discuss any points either on the blog or here.

This is my biggest grievance with the UK Education sector, thee is no correlation across levels.

Learners spend so much time in secondary education learning how to pass an exam. They have required information they must know about and GCSE’s have now become a glorified line…[Read more]

Personally I think that is a very good philosophy to have. Looking at needs rather than wants is the best approach, in my opinion, to enhancing learning.

I would be interested to discover how some of the more advanced lecturers use Tech to make their subject matters more interactive?

During my final six months…[Read more]

To me, it all boils down to the core content of the course and what the learners need enhancing. To an extent it also depends on how much staff are willing to engage (but that’s a different…[Read more]

The university I worked at did exactly what you described. They needed a VLE and so paid a fortune to install blackboard with nobody knowing what Blackboard was capable of doing. I think for the first year it was used to upload…[Read more]

RE: Explorer Badge – yes I am the same, I’m hoping that it is awaiting Human confirmation otherwise the automated system is clearly lagging

Granted, that is rather a sweeping statement but I can only go off my own experience at the…[Read more]

Like most I am a big fan of the open badges initiative and think it can give a lot to organisations in a variety of sectors.

My issue curently is the best way to distribute the badges. I have a credly account in which I could e-mail the badges I ahve designed to those participants that have met the assessment criteria. However, this…[Read more]

I too am surprised at how little TEL is utilised in education. My previous institution I was embedded within the Arts department and there was only 2/3 of us that were willing to try new things.

I was especially surprised at our media department who seemed reluctant to try new things (even blogging).

As for the others, I have been including links to forum posts etc as evidence. Still waiting for a few of the badges to be awarded though!??

PREZI – I think this is a fantastic presentation tool and everyone should use it. Now that prezi’s are portable and can be taken anywhere and presented offline, I see no major pitfalls to utilising this visually entertaining software
ROCKET SLIDE – I used this whilst I…[Read more]

Whilst some of us are at a more advanced stage and some of us are complete novices, we all want to experiment with technology…[Read more]

I’m a big twitter user in my social life but this is the first time I will use it to connect with people professionally.

My new thing is blogging. Never done it before but thought it would be…[Read more]

For me the biggest factor was that we had a college policy of giving individual feedback to students after a written submission. This is so we could go through the content, structure and show how it maps across to the…[Read more]

I think the answer is yes, they do differentiate, but not necessarily in a positive way.

I have taught learners that refused to read anything that was in a book, the same information on a website however was never a problem. The flipside to that is I have had learners that despised using computers and would much rather…[Read more]

In my experience, I certainly found that the message from college management was ‘use this new technology!’ with no reasoning as to why and/or its benefits to the learners.

I think it is often forgotten that every subject is different, so what works for maths may not work for mechanics etc.