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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Another day, another MOOC – this time it's OCTEL

Hi – my name’s Jim Pettiward. I first developed my interest in learning technology as an English Teacher (of the TEFL variety) working for the British Council. One of their projects around the turn of the millennium was called ‘Global Village’, an ambi…

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First thoughts on ocTEL

I’ve just been setting up my ocTEL stuff – this blog, digging out my previously unused Twitter account and logging onto the UniLearn space we’ve got at UoH. Also started to do a bit of reading and thinking about TEL on the Technology Enhanced Learning website (http://tel.ioe.ac.uk). I’m now suffering from acute information overload and […]

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First thoughts on ocTEL

I’ve just been setting up my ocTEL stuff – this blog, digging out my previously unused Twitter account and logging onto the UniLearn space we’ve got at UoH. Also started to do a bit of reading and thinking about TEL on the Technology Enhanced Learning website (http://tel.ioe.ac.uk). I’m now suffering from acute information overload and […]

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Adding some G+ to ocTEL

As I was setting up this blog earlier this afternoon I hesitated at using WordPress; considered Tumblr but remembered that tags don’t work well there and considered G+ but remebered I’ve never really got it. So here we are on WordPress. BUT I’m going to do some chatting over on G+ in the ocTEL G+ […]

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#ocTEL: my first MOOC experience (week 0 A01)

This first week, interestingly numbered “0”, the ocTEL MOOC has five activities which add up to about 4 hours of work. It is designed in a way which first invite you to think why you are here, and second to stimulate socialization.My first impression, …

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Week 0 Activities

Week 0 is Induction for ocTEL.  It runs for a little over a week: from 4th to 14th April. There is a checklist of things to do: Post a short summary about yourself #ocTEL Explore the ocTEL site and course discussions http://octel.alt.ac.uk Make sure you can login and edit your profile if you wish Check […]

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OcTEL begins

After dabbling with a few MOOCs recently, I’ve decided to dedicate myself & time to the UK ALT “MOOC” called OCTEL! It began today, so still time to sign up, if you’re interested in participating. Looking forward to spending some virtual time with …

Here we MOOC again

Over the coming weeks I’ll be participating in #ocTEL and I plan to keep my contibutions here. This is the second MOOC I’ve dipped into; I participated in Coursera’s HCI course for a while last year & created a similar notes blog. I’ll probably only be dipping in to ocTEL as I’m outside of the […]

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Week 0 Day 0

I have been very busy this morning so have not found the time to get everything sorted in my mind. I seem to have loads of emails coming in from all sorts of places and links to all sorts of other places so it is all rather overwhelming? I have decided to set up a new […]

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OcTEL begins

After dabbling with a few MOOCs recently, I’ve decided to dedicate myself & time to the UK ALT “MOOC” called OCTEL! It began today, so still time to sign up, if you’re interested in participating. Looking forward to spending some virtual time with …

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