James Clay

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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

It’s not Napster

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Interesting Examples of Technology Enhanced Learning – ocTEL Probably the most interesting example of TEL for me at the moment is the MOOC, but probably not in the way you would expect. What interests me about MOOCs is the hype surrounding them and a belief that they will have a significant impact on the HE […]

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The real question – ocTEL

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Many years ago, in 1999, I facilitated and delivered an online course, using First Class on how to facilitate and deliver online. The participants were college staff, many of whom had limited experience of using the internet. My own experience was quite limited, but I had since 1998 really immersed myself in the internet and […]

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Experimentation and Exploration – ocTEL

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Activity 0.3 of the ocTEL MOOC asks Experiment with and/or reflect on different ways of communicating with fellow ocTEL participants. I have been using most (if not all) the different ways to communicate and chat with fellow ocTEL participants. I have posted and responded using the ocTEL JISCMail e-mail mailing list. I have posted to […]

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Characterisation – ocTEL

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Having already decided on my big question one of the other things that the ocTEL course is asking: What characteristics do you think the participants in this course have in common? I have partly answered this already in my post about handling e-mail. What was interesting was how few people who responded to my post […]

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Playing by the rules – ocTEL

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

One comment I read in the influx of e-mail for this ocTEL course said in terms of organising participants into groups: I think we need to divide ourselves into subgroups for conversations to keep things manageable. The question is, how to organise the subgroups? By type of job? By type of interest in this course? […]

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