HiThank you for the responses to my earlier post which may well be labelled flabbergastergate! It is interesting to see how the post has been interpreted and I wholeheartedly agree with the responses that we should make no assumptions about what our le…

Activity 2.2: Researching themes in learner needs

(45 mins reading and assimilating; 45 mins writing and discussing; 45 mins finding more resources)

Consider one or more of these four themes:

1. The nature of adult learning and implications for practice (tags: ocTEL, adultlearning)
2. Studies of online expectations and ‘readiness’ (tags: ocTEL, readiness)
3. Implications of digital literacy (tags: ocTEL, diglit)
4. Implications for your teaching approach/delivery and implementation (tags: ocTEL, delivery) […]

HiAfter posting this message about the activity I then had a meeting with one of my students on the PGCert for teaching and learning. She is a lecturer at my institution, lets call her Susie…Our PGCert is blended with most content being online and so…

Hi Maggie and Welcome to ocTEL,Don’t worry about being a later starter, there are lots of activities and lots of discussion streams but we don’t expect you to engage in every way, you’ll find your preferred place. There is a great blog post by one of t…

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We hope you enjoyed yesterday’s webinar with our guest expert Helen Beetham. If you missed it you can catch up by listening to the recording. Helen introduced us to a range of tools in the Elluminate room which made the session very interactive and engaging.
It’s good to see some discussions of the forum for Activity 2.1: Learner expectations. If you don’t have time to login to the ocTEL site and prefer to discuss here, the focus of this activity is… […]

Hi everyoneJoin our weekly webinar at 12.30 British Summer Time today. If you haven’t been to a live session before, don’t worry. There’ll be a short introduction and networking session at the start as well as time to familiarise yourself with the plat…