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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

#ocTEL week 9 TEL project management

Posted on by AliSheph Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

This week is interesting as I wouldn’t usually describe my forays into edtech as full-blown projects!  However, I am involved in a bigger project due to planned rollout of iPads for various student cohorts.  However, this project is at quite an early stage so I am trying to take everything in so that we implement […]

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Reading: Chapter 15 HEA / TEL – Learners in Control

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

As earlier postings,  the OcTEL orientation resources takes you to this publication: Transforming Higher Education Through Technology Enhanced Learning Publication Date: 23-12-2009 Available at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/learningandtech/transforming_he_through_technology_enhanced_learning.  I’ve put the full link in again after being unable to find it for 10 minutes!  The chapter 15 link is here too: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/learningandtech/Transforming-15.pdf I don’t know how come  I initially skipped […]

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Reading: Chapter 17 HEA / TEL – podcasting for pedagogic purposes

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Chapter 17 by Newton and Middleton Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes: The journey so far and some lessons learned http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/learningandtech/Transforming-17.pdf I really liked this chapter.  I think I was influenced by the early inclusion of CoP, Biggs’ constructive alignment and a whiff of ‘it’s not napster’ in the opening paragraphs. P236:If we aspire to a learner-centred, well-aligned, constructivist paradigm, we […]

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Reading Chapter 16 HEA / TEL

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Chapter 16: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/learningandtech/Transforming-16.pdf Transforming higher education through technology-enhanced learning is about DeMonfort’s pathfinder project It describes how Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the learning context and argues for a debate on the challenges that have emerged. Case studies are also provided. Page 225: How can an HEI begin to make sense of the proliferation of read/write […]

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Information Obesity: Why it’s not just about having too much

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

In the webinar for week 4 (I think) the term ‘information obesity’ (Andrew Whitworth) made sufficient impact for me to note it down, along with the term info-whelmed (see youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECAVxbfsfc) as I think we really need to give our learners the heads-up on this.  This takes me back (yet again) to Rheingold’s literacies. This […]

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ocTEL week 3 resources – Best Practice Models for e-learning

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

From Keith Smyth webinar (ocTEL week 3)
This page gives more information about the Best Practice Models project run in the Learning Development and Innovation team at Staffordshire University and details of how you can get involved.
Helen Walmsley http…

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ocTEL week 4 – resources (activity 4.1)

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Activity 4.1 challenges us to compare resources.  I chose to do this using Jorum and open-learn.  I listed design thinking, textile testing and textile properties as the resources to search for.  Obscure but needed, this is no easy task… Design Thinking – neither did well, but I could take a 60 credit OU module, which […]

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ocTEL week 3 – 3E Framework (Keith Smyth webinar)

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I know ocTEL advise us to keep jogging along and I am already on catch-up from week 7 but I’ve decided to head back to week 3 in order to capture the 3E framework which I think is a brilliant resource.  I have just watched the webinar again and got just a much on the […]

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[Event] ALT Scotland event – 20th June, Glasgow

Posted on by Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

On the 20th June I have the pleasure of presenting some of the work around open courses I’ve been doing as part of ocTEL. The event is free and has a great list of other presenters working on open education in Scotland The ALT-Scotland special interest group will be hosting an event on Thursday 20th […]

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#ocTEL week 7: your place or mine?

Posted on by Stuart Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I’ve not been the best at interacting with other participants on this course (mainly due to time constraints). But by the looks of it I’m not alone. The small group for distance learning forum, to which I subscribe, hasn’t seen … Continue reading →

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