Author: David Jennings
Consultant and occasional writer, based in London. Chartered Pscyhologist and CMALT. Overall co-ordinator of ocTEL.

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Announcements and list discussion (online learning readiness)

Hello everyone,Just to let you know, in case you hadn’t spotted it, that Week 2 of ocTEL “Understanding Learners’ Needs” formally begins today, and you can see the activities at http://octel.alt.ac.uk/course-materials/understanding-learners-needs/Pleas…

Approaches, concepts and a few new faces

Here’s a brief round-up of the first week of the course. This week was all about TEL Concepts and Approaches, but we also welcomed a number of new faces and quite a few who had missed the induction period. So

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Meet the team

With apologies for the fact that it’s twelve days into the course before we’ve made this available, we now have an ocTEL team page on the site. Here you can see photos and bios of the people who have played

Re: 1. TEL Concepts and Approaches

by Roger Emery.  That comment lead from a discussion in the office here (amongst a few parents I may add) at how open minded young children are and then how, as they work their way through education, they/we become used to a more and more regiment…

Re: OcTEL discussion

by Scott Johnson.  I agree we should be open to the rest of the OCTEL community. Where I work we’ve tried discussion forums limited to on-campus staff and topics either dwindled down to trading cake recipies or collapsed under attacks from upper a…

Re: OcTEL discussion

by Roger Emery.  I’ve enabled the RSS feed for this forum so we can push this to the Course Reader if all in agreement?

Re: OcTEL discussion

by Belinda Green.  

This is working well (for me) thanks Roger. Easy to navigate, I like the daily digest of postings, and I don’t feel swamped as in the ocTEL forums (should that be fora? not sure!).  To keep it simple, I’d be happy to have a single forum, perhaps with a new thread for each activity, and other threads for anything else we want to discuss.  I’m also happy not to have tutor style editing rights, and risk messing It up! (I’d have a whole pack of mongrels after me then…..)  I think we should make it viewable to ocTEL participants and moderators, in the spirit of this being an Open course.  What does everyone else think?

Goodbye Week 0, Hello Week 1

Hello all,We’re coming to the end of the induction period of ocTEL. I’ve posted a quick round-up — as much as it is possible to round-up the activity of a thousand people — at http://octel.alt.ac.uk/big-questions-and-learning-the-ropes/As I said in r…

Big questions and learning the ropes

Here’s quick overview and recap as the induction part of ocTEL draws to a close and we approach the start of the main course next week. The aims we set for this part were for you to have a sense of

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Re: introduction

Hi Tony,

Thanks for that – I think the web address you meant to provide was http://tonyh161a.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/octel-bio-and-big-questions/

I’ve posted some comments there, and also added your blog to our register of participant blogs.

Good to have you along,
David

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