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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

putting yourself in the learner’s shoes

As part of the preparation for my ULTA2 assignment, I’ll be getting some of my online teaching observed. This has raised the question of how to carry out observation of online teaching, and how observation of online teaching is different to traditional observations. I’ve been reading around this a little …

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(M)OOC in a Box: Turning WordPress into an Open Course Reader #ocTEL

Google Readers demise is unfortunate but before it disappears I thought it would be useful to raid some of the functionality for an open course reader (using WordPress/FeedWordPress

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POT Cert Week 20: the “golden triangle” of pedagogy, ed tech and instructional design #potcert

Happy days: this week POTCert takes a look at educational technology and instructional design. I’m particularly interested in both of these fields because since starting on the Pedagogy First course, I’ve come to realise that both educational technology and instructional design are integral to the delivery of effective learning, and it seems that an online […]

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ocTEL course outline published

ALT have just published the draft course outline for their first MOOC – ocTEL (Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning). The content looks promising – a good mix of theory and practice, covering a wide range of topics. It’ll be interesting to see what level the materials are pitched at …

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Hello!

Hi and welcome to my ocTEL blog! I have set this blog up purely for engagement with the ALT ocTEL course running April-June 2013. I am looking forward to the course, both from the content point of view and for the experience in taking part in a MOOC. I have taken part in one MOOC […]

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Hello!

Hi and welcome to my ocTEL blog! I have set this blog up purely for engagement with the ALT ocTEL course running April-June 2013. I am looking forward to the course, both from the content point of view and for the experience in taking part in a MOOC. I have taken part in one MOOC […]

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There's nothing new in MOOCs

I have recently started working with the ocTEL team looking at how to evaluate the Massive Open Online Course or MOOC they’ll be running next year. (ocTEL stands for Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning, there’s an outline of the course on th…

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