As I mentioned in my introduction, I’ve found the use of acronyms quite alienating here, so this was great – many thanks, Bill.
Jack Bowers

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On 05/04/2013, at 2:31 AM, “Bill Miller” > wrote:

Following on from Barbara’s Big Question, I’m Bill Miller, I do eLearning at University of Birmingham and there’s the thing. I heartily agree with Barbara’s questions and have my own ideas about them, but I had to go and look up ‘TEL’ just to make sure I’m on the same page (and the great cloud oracle, wikipedia, tells me that “E-learning is […]

Hello, everyone. I’ve got up at 4am to do this, so apologies in advance if it is a bit sleepy.I teach academic skills at the Australian National University in Canberra.I’ve had the usual experiences with TEL i.e. I’ve had to pick it up with minimal tra…

Just to let everyone know, the participants list does not include everyone registered on the course. When you registered there was a question “Do you want to opt out of ALT sharing your name, country and affiliation with other participants via the part…

Esther,
This advice from Bill works. Copy and paste the https urls as instructed.

Here’s how I was able to do it:

Create a mailing list password using this form:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?GETPW1=SUBED1%3DOCTEL-PUBLIC&X=&Y=

You’ll receive an email with a link to click to confirm your password.

Then login to jiscmail to change to a digest subscription:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?LOGON=SUBED1=OCTEL-PUBLIC

The archives of the mailing list are here:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=OCTEL-PUBLIC […]

Hi Everyone,
hopefully this is not gluing anyones email shut.. thanks Doug I’m on Digest
too!!!!
OK.. me.. Trish O’Connell.. a MOOC virgin and am hoping this will not hurt
too much….[?]
My background is Engineering but I somehow got into teaching and discovered
my passion!
I completed an online Masters (2 years) here in NUI Galway in Software
Engineering & Database Technologies and found that I really enjoyed the TEL
experience
.. so much so that I am now working as an online facilitator & course
developer for ITOnline
I started developing my module last week & am interested […]

Hi David,

I am in the same position as Jean, I did not receive the introductory email or details of how to log in etc. Would you be able to send me this info?

Many thanks,

Emma
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—–Original Message—–
From: JEAN PEROIS
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:03:00
To:
Subject: Re: Questions and help with practicalities? […]

Bob,
You are quite right there is lot of expertise expressed in the emails. But the expertise is in different areas, or if common they will have had different experiences. I expect there will be some gaps in their understanding and knowledge of the technologies’ potential use.

I hope the early emails from those who are better versed in the area will not put off real newcomers. The opportunity to discuss, or, collaborate with those who have some experience in the use of a technology you might want to use, will be a great advantage to individual just starting out. […]

Hi,The email you are looking for has the subject “ocTEL Important information for participants”You may find it in your spam/junk e-mail.Hopefully someone will resend the email to you once they have read your email. Alternatively to re-register is often…

Nicolas, great to hear from you. It is indeed strange, but thus far Im finding the whole experience quite strange.PS there is a wickedly delicious ambiguity in your observation. The trouble with typed sentences is that one loses the nuances.Best wishes…

Hi everyone,I’m Lisa Anderson and I’m a Senior Lecturer in Management Education at the University of Liverpool Management School. I’ve worked on our online programme provision for the past 5 years and was heavily involved in the re-design of our MBA pr…