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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

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Week 8 webinar details and minor changes

May 31, 2013

Timing and practicalities

Please note that next week’s webinar will be on Tuesday 4 June at 12:30pm British Summer Time. As always, we’ll be using Blackboard Collaborate. For help prior to the webinar and some frequently asked questions please visit our help page.

To join the webinar please follow this link after 12 noon on Tuesday.

Maximising learning for minimum cost, but who’s the online learner? iTunes U as an example

We looked at iTunes U  a couple of times already (in Weeks 4 and 5, occasionally arousing some controversy) as a repository of digital educational material provided by universities and other institutions. iTunes U has delivered over 1 billion downloads, providing unprecedented free public access to educational content for learners and teachers worldwide.

Tuesday’s webinar will present the potential of iTunes U to deliver free educational content and how this content is being used, offering the first full profile of the iTunes U learner and their practices and opinions of the materials they download. The data was gathered through a large survey (over 2000 responses) carried out over two years using the iTunes U site from The Open University, the UK’s most successful iTunes U provider in terms of numbers of downloads (over 60 million) as well as amount of collections uploaded (over 400). The session will conclude with ideas about how to introduce the use of free iTunes U materials to teaching, either in the classroom or as self-access resources.

About the presenter

Fernando Rosell-Aguilar is Lecturer in Spanish at the Open University, United Kingdom, where he writes teaching materials and chairs the presentation of courses with 800+ students. He also coordinates the provision of materials from the OU department of languages on iTunes U. In 2004 he received the Open University teaching award for his online learning materials. His research focuses on online language learning, mainly podcasting as a teaching and learning tool, CMC learning environments (such as audio and video conferencing) and digital literacy. He has published his research in international journals such as Computers and Education, Language Learning and Technology, ReCALL, CALL, JaltCALL and Reading Matrix, and regularly presents at international conferences.

Enhancement strategies

On the original Course Materials page, we billed Week 8 as “Maximum learning for minimum cost”. Reflecting the fact that enhancing learning has more dimensions than just getting more bang for your buck, we’ve changed the title to “Enhancement strategies”. There is a still a strong focus on efficiencies of scale, widening access, extending the reach of learning opportunities and reducing costs — but also a recognition that enriching and deepening learning and the learners’ experience is an important aspect of Technology Enhanced Learning.

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Activity 4.3: Creating your own material

May 31, 2013 | Jillian Pawlyn – ocTEL Blog

Have a look at one of the following tools (choose one you are not already familiar with) and consider its applic
ation in your context:XerteGlomakerCmap (click the small document and tool icons)Camtasia or JingScreencast-o-matic.Pleas… respond to at lea… Read more »

Activity 4.1: Comparing resources

May 31, 2013 | Jillian Pawlyn – ocTEL Blog

Take the perspective of a learner What elements of these do you think are appealing to different kinds of learners?What kinds of learners, if any, would they be inappropriate for and why?How do each of these resources differ from that of the resources we’re using in ocTEL?What ways can you Read more »

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Week 7 webinar recording now available

May 30, 2013

Thanks to everyone who took part in ocTEL’s weekly webinar with Nancy White yesterday afternoon.

If you missed all or part of the week 7 webinar, the materials from the session are now available on the Course Materials page, which is updated weekly with materials from each live webinar.

Gráinne Hamilton, this week’s lead tutor, has blogged about the session:

In the webinar, Nancy covered the impact of the contexts we teach and learn within, considering the ‘we, me, many&rsqu
o; – groups, individual, networks. Much of the discussion focused on how to move towards interaction and developing peer support online. Some of the participants described examples of courses they want to develop more peer-to-peer interaction and experiential learning within, sometimes in international contexts, and Nancy and the group came up with a range of suggestions that could help. These included:

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Siemens Learning Development Cycle #ocTEL 7.1

May 30, 2013 | Megan Kime | Megan Kime

I planned to write a post comparing Siemens’ approach (learning development cycle) with the Salmon model discussed earlier this week. But I must admit I didn’t get that much from the Siemens’ paper. I’m worried that I’m not understanding it right, but it didn’t seem to be saying very much Read more »

#ocTEL week 5: how do you make technology disappear?

May 30, 2013 | Open Plan Publishing

After a two-week hiatus while I built sandcastles on the beach in Spain, it was good to get straight into a meaty bit of theory when I started catching up on ocTEL: David Kolb’s learning styles model and experiential learning … Continue reading → Read more »

Supporting Learners…

May 30, 2013 | TEL course…

In your experience of the ocTEL course so far, describe an instance where the support you received from tutors or peers felt particularly good – what made it good? describe an instance where the support had weaknesses – what made it poor? When starting the course, there was a buzz Read more »

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Catching up with OCTEL Week 5 – A new role for VLEs?

May 29, 2013 | The Digitally Literate Learner

More than just a filing cabinet?        I’ve been away for a little while, but had a little unfinished business from Week 5. I wanted  to contribute to the general discussion in Activity 5.2 with some thoughts about VLEs, in particular:               – What are the Read more »

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#ocTEL week 7 – activity 7.1 Designing learner support (peer support)

May 28, 2013 | alicesadventuresinedtech

I am interested in encouraging more of a peer support thread through one of my modules.  I therefore decided to have a look at some of the ocTEL resources in this area.  I found the REAP project principles practical, pragmatic and well-considered, so I have used these as the framework Read more »

Models for supporting learning: Salmon #ocTEL 7.1

May 28, 2013 | Megan Kime | Megan Kime

For this activity I choose to look first at the Salmon Five Stage Model, which I’m already familiar with, and then the others as comparisons. I’ll post the comparison discussions in a separate post after this one. Gilly Salmon Five Stage Model I’m familiar with the Salmon Five Stage Model, Read more »

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ocTEL Week 7 Webinar

May 27, 2013

Join our weekly webinar at 17.00 on Wednesday 29 May, via Blackboard Collaborate 11.

You can access the Week 7 webinar via this link.

This week’s webinar

PLEASE NOTE this week’s webinar is at 17:00pm rather than the usual 12.30pm.

Have you ever felt like you were planning a dinner party when what you really wanted was a picnic? We have lots of options about how we design learning to engage and facilitate peer to peer learning. But sometimes it is easy to get stuck with “what we’ve always done.” Join Nancy White as we explore our repertoire of possibility for groups and learning. With Nancy, we’ll practice some of the real time webinar facilitation techniques that tutors can use to enable a supportive, collaborative and / or co-operative environment.

About the presenter

Founder of Full Circle Associates, Nancy White helps organizations connect through online and offline strategies. She is internationally recognized as an online interaction designer, facilitator and coach for distributed learning, teams and online communities. Nancy blogs at http://www.fullcirc.com/, teaches, presents and writes on online facilitation and interaction, social architecture and social media. She is co-author with Etienne Wenger and John Smith of “Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities.” (http://www.technologyforcommunities.com).

We will make the recording of this session available via the Course Materials page.

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For help prior to the webinar and some frequently asked questions please visit our help page.

If you have any questions contact octel-tech@alt.ac.uk.

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Learning support #ocTEL week 7

May 27, 2013 | Megan Kime | Megan Kime

Hoping to complete all of the ocTEL activities this week, as the topic – supporting learners online – is one of the most important for me. First thing – initial reflection on learning support… ocTEL Experience We’re asked to talk about positive and negative instances of learner support that we’ve Read more »

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#ocTEL Week 6 – help and ideas please!

May 25, 2013 | Smooching through a MOOC

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age (JISC, 2010): consider the following questions. Week 6 is certainly raising a lot of questions for me, and presenting challenges in terms of my current teaching methods. To be honest, I’m left wondering how…Read more › Read more »

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Importance of question design #octel

May 24, 2013 | More than just Content

One of my colleagues told me they were planning a session on question design for students who had opted to create eLearning materials as part of their course.  As we were looking at assessment and feedback on #octel this week, … Continue reading → Read more »

Learning by Stealth

May 24, 2013 | Stephen Brown’s ocTEL experience

Ive been prompted by a question about my reflections on my approaches to assessment to reflect further on what the student experience is like.  Sancha de Burca @GraphDesProject&… “Would  this end up being confusing for a learner, or helpful, do you … Continue reading → Read more »

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Creating a ‘full fat’ RSS feed for Google Gmail labels (enabling some dark social judo)

May 23, 2013 | Jisc CETIS MASHe

In this post I want to cover three things. First I want to introduce a little app I’ve developed which allows you to create a RSS feed for any of your Gmail labels (with the option to remove certain links – useful if you don’t want others unsubscribing you from Read more »

What is Learning?

May 23, 2013 | Jillian Pawlyn – ocTEL Blog

Designing Active LearningWhat is learning?Activity: Think about the last time you learned something. Describe what you learned? How did you go about learning it? What strategies did you use? Consider this overview of categories of learning “suitable for instructional design planning“ in the table My learning activity, to use Twitter purposefully.So… learned about Read more »

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