Category: Course information

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

ocTEL weekly webinars starting this Wednesday

Posted on by ADavidge Posted in Course information

ocTEL is running weekly webinars starting this Wednesday, 10 April. The week 0 webinar will start at 12:30pm (BST), via Blackboard Collaborate 11. Links to all webinar sessions will be available via the Course Materials page. This week’s webinar This week’s webinar has two…

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

Posted on 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…

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Course begins: looking forward to your feedback

Posted on 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…

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Guide to discussion and collaboration spaces

Posted on 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…

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ocTEL tutor support: what you can expect

Posted on 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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ocTEL principles and values

Posted on by Maren Deepwell Posted in About this course, course design, Course Reader

ocTEL is the Open Course for Technology Enhanced Learning developed and run by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and its members. This is the first online course that the Association has run and while all first attempts at such…

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New course outline and confirmed dates

Posted on by David Jennings Posted in About this course, course design, progress report

We now have a complete set of draft materials for our course, which we will be reviewing and revising during the rest of the March, so that we’re ready to start the course in April. While finalising the course and…

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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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Introducing OLDS MOOC and mixing courses

Posted on by David Jennings Posted in related courses and developments

ocTEL shares some of its DNA with another free online course, “Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum”  a.k.a. OLDS MOOC (more on those acronyms in a second),  which starts early in January. By DNA, I mean that our principles…

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Course outline – first draft

Posted on by David Jennings Posted in About this course, course design, progress report

The ocTEL project team have now had a chance to discuss and digest the results of our survey, and to think about what implications they might have for the course design. The results are most useful in terms of what…

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