Category: Blog posts

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

The real question – ocTEL

Posted on by James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Many years ago, in 1999, I facilitated and delivered an online course, using First Class on how to facilitate and deliver online. The participants were college staff, many of whom had limited experience of using the internet. My own experience was quite limited, but I had since 1998 really immersed myself in the internet and […]

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#ocTEL Activity 0.1: My Big Question?

Posted on by Jo-ann Larkins Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I’ve been pondering My Big Question for the use of TEL in my teaching for the last week or so. It’s been an amorphous sort of  blob of an idea swimming around in the depths, resistant to taking a concrete form. It’s been teasing and eluding me.So,…

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A New Pedagogy is Emerging…And Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contact North

Posted on by Roger Harrison Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

A New Pedagogy is Emerging…And Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor | Contact North.

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#ocTEL Visitors and residents – David White workshop

Posted on by AliSheph Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I attended a workshop run by David (from the University of Oxford’s continuing education department, where he co-manages the TALL (technology-assisted lifelong learning) research and development group) yesterday.  Thought-provoking stuff, not least because the subject is closely linked to my big question for #ocTEL, and my musings on digital expectations gap! ‘Visitors and residents’ relates […]

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Activity 0.2 Initial Comments and discussion

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I think this will be Activity 0.2 part 1 as I think I may be going off on a tangent. Or off on a tandem as my son used to say! I have been thinking about participation and discussion today. Also about the judgments we may make about level of participation. I stumbled across James […]

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Big ?'s about Technology Enhanced Learning #ocTEL

Posted on by claire donlan Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

One of the activities for week 0 of ocTEL, in addition to writing an introduction about yourself,  is what is the most important question about TEL for you?  I’m not sure what my big question is.  Does technology enhance learning? Y…

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#ocTEL week 0: volume anxiety

Posted on by Stuart Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Filled with new enthusiasm after the Learning Through Technology conference (#LTT2013), I signed up for the Association for Learning Technology’s open course in technology-enhanced learning (#ocTEL), which began last week. I’m taking this course to try and engage with a … Continue reading →

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Pre-MOOC MOOCs

Posted on by philtubman Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I have just been to the first webinar of the #octel mooc https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.DE7761F09D9A3D6F03A998E592ED6D, where the chat window was discussing the pedagogy behind moocs, whether it is anything new, whether …

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Week 0 – Introduction and Big Question

Posted on by Catherine Koppe Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

The “If you only do one thing…” activity for week 0 is to write a short intro about myself, so here goes… My name is Catherine Koppe and I am a training developer at the University of Edinburgh. I work in the Skills Development Team within Information Services (IS Skills). My job involves creating training materials and […]

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ocTEL Big Question

Posted on by Rob McKerlie Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I am taking part in my first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) hosted by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). As part of this I have been reflecting on my experience and ambitions for developing my teaching, in the process pondering about what I feel to be […]

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