About this course – ocTEL 2013

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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

ocTEL at ALT-C 2013

Posted on September 6, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, Course information

If you took part in ocTEL, you probably couldn’t help noticing that the Association for Learning Technology, which runs the course, also runs an annual conference — known as ALT-C. Video clips of talks at previous ALT-Cs are liberally sprinkled through…

Living and learning in the open

Posted on August 9, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, Course information

Now that ocTEL has been over for a few weeks, we in the team are at leisure to look back on it with rose-tinted glasses. The sky didn’t fall, no animals were harmed, and a few participants even had some…

Understanding Learners' Needs – Week 2 Wrap-up

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in Course information, progress report

The week’s activities began with a good deal of interest and comment relating to the four ‘Readiness questionnaires’. Most comments and posts related to the limitations of this mechanistic approach to identifying learners’ needs. Colleagues identified that differing degrees of self-awareness amongst…

Expectations taster

Posted on April 29, 2013 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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Meet the team

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, Course information

With apologies for the fact that it’s twelve days into the course before we’ve made this available, we now have an ocTEL team page on the site. Here you can see photos and bios of the people who have played…

Big questions and learning the ropes

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, Course information, progress report

Here’s quick overview and recap as the induction part of ocTEL draws to a close and we approach the start of the main course next week. The aims we set for this part were for you to have a sense of…

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What we're learning from you about communications in large online courses

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, progress report

In this course we encourage you to communicate with each other via several channels, including your own blogs and twitter accounts, and we provide some guidance about when and why to use them. We let you, the course participants, choose…

Course begins: looking forward to your feedback

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, progress report

ocTEL starts today. Like the English first class cricket season, which begins tomorrow, play gets under way at the civilised hour of 11.00 British Summer Time. Like cricket, it’s best if you don’t rush. We’ve put a lot of planning…

Guide to discussion and collaboration spaces

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course

Discussion and collaboration are central to the experience of ocTEL. But it’s a challenge to arrange the online discussions of 850+ people (that’s how many registrations we’ve had for the course at the time of writing). We want to make…

ocTEL tutor support: what you can expect

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

David Jennings Posted in About this course, Uncategorized

Online learning in ocTEL is designed to encourage participants like you both to engage actively with the concepts in the course and to reflect on what you are learning through discussion. So learning conversations are central to the course. We…

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