John Graves

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:56:02 GMT
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“participatory learning”

I’m coming to participatory learning from just completing a PhD in Open Source Software Development, studying how to build a sequel to Wikipedia: a crowd sourced resource of learning material (rather than reference material).

Very enthusiastic about the idea of collaborative learning.

Have become involved in several related Google+ communities:

Using Google Apps as a Free LMS (learning management system – 611 members)
https://plus.google.com/communities/110147344160609001644

Online Learning Collective (101 members)
https://plus.google.com/communities/112542481102501875677

Peeragogy in Action (326 members)
https://plus.google.com/communities/107386162349686249470

along with starting Google+ communities for several MOOCs:

Academia and the MOOC
https://plus.google.com/communities/112243817982502760507

OCTEL Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning
https://plus.google.com/communities/101382199434711534938

(and others)

and developing a platform, SlideSpeech, for web/mobile eLearning:
http://slidespeech.com
https://plus.google.com/communities/111737290066479067100

John Graves

Wed, 08 May 2013 04:43:20 GMT
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A MOOC called ocTEL, the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning, is running 4 April – 17 June 2013. If you’d like to catch up with it or sample it, this one-stop spreadsheet has a set of week-by-week teasers:
https://docs.google.com/a/slidespeech.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap4efB86ZBGCdGxpRGtST2R4NElsTHVac2U0UXJXWlE#gid=0

The teaser presentations “tell the story” of the course using a computer voice in just a few minutes. Others have commented “The slides are good but the voice, admittedly, is annoying.” and “being able to run through a quick recap of the webinar was worth the slight irritation”.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100772331866826784248/posts/Yf6UHfZ1JHF

What do you think?

John Graves

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:01:21 GMT
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A MOOC called ocTEL, the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning, is running 4 April – 17 June 2013. If you’d like to catch up with it or sample it, this one-stop spreadsheet has a set of week-by-week teasers:
https://docs.google.com/a/slidespeech.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap4efB86ZBGCdGxpRGtST2R4NElsTHVac2U0UXJXWlE#gid=0

John Graves

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:50:17 GMT
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Liz Masterman webinar summarized: http://slidespeech.com/s/8uXqst92en

John Graves

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:45:30 GMT
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Here are my Week 2 reflections from the octTEL MOOC[1]: 

Danny Hillis – Learning Map
Comparison of two MOOCs in the context of the Learning Map idea
http://slidespeech.com/s/d1Lz4ZhRen/?autoplay=true

[1] http://octel.alt.ac.uk/

John Graves

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:12:17 GMT
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726 participants – and growing? By copying and pasting the participants list into Excel and sorting, the user names of ocTEL participants, from AdamButt to Zohra Mahmood AliSurani, number 726 as of 15 April 2013. 

List:
http://octel.alt.ac.uk/course-discussions/participants-list/

A post from +David Jennings put the number at “over 300” on 12 March 2013, 
http://octel.alt.ac.uk/new-course-outline-and-confirmed-dates/
so the list has at least doubled in a month. Keep that up for a year and we’ll have 2220705 participants!

It is interesting how this number compares with the scale of some other MOOCs
http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html

+John Duhring in another forum ([1] or [2]) observed the community interested in this topic is actually rather small — today. I wonder if we are just at the start of the kind of transformation illustrated by the “Announcement of the Pope: 2005 vs 2013” images:
http://instagram.com/p/W2BuMLQLRB/

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112542481102501875677
[2] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110147344160609001644

John Graves

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:13:59 GMT
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One of the features “missing” from Google Apps may be a blog post/bookmark aggregation functionality which reaches out across Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Delicious, Diigo, Mendeley Group (and more?) and collects all the material tagged for a course.

ocTEL has such a system, called the Course Reader, described in this video:
Customisation of the Responsive Theme for WordPress turning it into a Google Reader style RSS reader

available on github as “MOOC in a Box”:
https://github.com/mhawksey/moocinabox

John Graves

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:23:03 GMT
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Please add a link directly to http://octel.alt.ac.uk/ and the ocTEL forum or Course Reader from this group. Moderators can do this under Actions > Edit community.

John Graves

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:56:00 GMT
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My Week 0 submission at ocTEL. Summarizes all the Week 0 offerings I could find.
http://slidespeech.com/s/ms5W0ikPen?autoplay=true

To modify the voice over of this presentation:
http://slidespeech.com/edit.html?code=ms5W0ikPen

The MOOC: 
This is an online course to help you understand better how to use technology to enhance your teaching practice. The course is aimed primarily at people teaching at Higher Education level, whether in Higher Education Institutions or Further Education Colleges.
http://octel.alt.ac.uk/