Author: Megan Kime
Teaching Fellow and Online Learning Specialist at the University of Leeds

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Keeping up #ocTEL

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I’m currently experiencing what it’s like to be a student struggling to keep up with a distance learning course due to competing demands of work, family, and a bout of flu. This experience itself would make participating in ocTEL worthwhile, even if the course itself were rubbish (which of course …

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networks

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I’ve been involved with the launch and re-launch of two networks (or communities of practice?) at Leeds this week and last week: the re-launch of the Learning Technologists Network, lead by James Little (fellow blogger, ocTEL participant, and Sheffielder!); and the (soft) launch of the Online Distance Learning Network for …

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readiness for online learning #ocTEL week 2

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‘Understanding Learners’ Needs’ is the topic for this week, which is really important in general but especially for distance learners. The ‘if you only do one thing this week do this’ activity for week 2 is to look at some online readiness assessment questionnaires provided by a number of American …

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my practice #ocTEL Activity 1.2

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My Approach Reflect on where your learning activities lie on a matrix of ‘individual to social’ and ‘autonomous to directed’ learning. Having plotted the teaching activity from our online masters, there’s stuff in three of the quadrants, but nothing in social & autonomous. My initial reaction to this is that …

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constructivism and communities of practice #ocTEL activity 1.1

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Not getting on so well with the activities this week, at least with completing the tasks. I’ve found watching the videos and reading the resources really interesting, but have struggled to get round to producing anything from it. But then I read the following about Constructionism on the Moodle Philosophy …

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#ocTEL introduction and ‘big question’

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So ocTEL starts today and I already feel that I could get lost in it (in a good way). Starting as I mean to go on here is my introduction and ‘big question’ for the first of the induction activities: Introduction My main experience with TEL so far is as …

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putting yourself in the learner’s shoes

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As part of the preparation for my ULTA2 assignment, I’ll be getting some of my online teaching observed. This has raised the question of how to carry out observation of online teaching, and how observation of online teaching is different to traditional observations. I’ve been reading around this a little …

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ocTEL course outline published

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ALT have just published the draft course outline for their first MOOC – ocTEL (Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning). The content looks promising – a good mix of theory and practice, covering a wide range of topics. It’ll be interesting to see what level the materials are pitched at …

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