Author: Rachel Harris
Rachel directs Inspire Research Ltd, an independent consultancy specialising in evaluation and research into learning. Rachel has over 20 years experience in evaluation, research and development, much of which has focused on technology enhanced learning. Rachel is a long-standing member of ALT, the BPS, HE Academy, and serves on ALT’s Research Committee.

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Feedback on ocTEL!

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in Course Reader, JISCMail, Lists

Dear ocTEL participantHard to believe, but ocTEL finished two months ago! Hopefully, after aholiday, you’ve had time to reflect on the experience. It would be great tocapture some of your views, and one way to do this is to take 5 minutes tofill in the…

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Hi Jillian, I love your knot analogy. I could envisage extending it to that feeling of having to craft…

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in Course Reader, Google+, Social networks
Rachel Harris

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Hi Jillian, I love your knot analogy. I could envisage extending it to that feeling of having to craft what I write on a blog post (knot 6.31), rather than just getting the ideas out there (knot 0.1)! I think that is why I find twitter so much easier.
Glad to hear you enjoyed ocTEL!
Rachel
Activity 10.3 I had two questions How will I/we/they (academics) know when/whether the technologies deployed have enhanced learning?  How can we identify when learners have disengaged from learning because the technolog…
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Expectations taster

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in About this course, Course information, Evaluation

Last week we asked you to tell us what your expectations are for taking part in ocTEL. If you haven’t already, please do add your views via the expectations questionnaire! We are really hoping to hear from more of you,…

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What are your expectations of ocTEL?

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in Course information, Evaluation

As noted in Friday’s overview, the team is keen to hear your feedback about ocTEL, and to act on it! We also have fairly detailed plans for a broader evaluation of ocTEL, which includes investigating impact on course participants. I…

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Ye canny defy the laws of (complexity science) or how to evaluate a MOOC

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

One way to approach evaluation can be to try to define what would indicate that an intervention or change has been successful. This could be successful from the perspective of a project team, the intended recipients of the intervention, or those paying…

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There's nothing new in MOOCs

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in About this course, Evaluation

Towards the end of last year I started working with the ocTEL team on how to evaluate the Massive Open Online Course or MOOC they’ll be running in 2013. There is a *huge* amount of discussion on MOOCs at the moment from tips for…

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There's nothing new in MOOCs

Posted on by Rachel Harris Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I have recently started working with the ocTEL team looking at how to evaluate the Massive Open Online Course or MOOC they’ll be running next year. (ocTEL stands for Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning, there’s an outline of the course on th…

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