Hi David, I have to agree with Alistair, these questionnaires seem very oldfashioned. If I received one of these questionnaires as a student I wouldbe very concerned about the quality of the course I was about toundertake.We need to be asking students …

Thanks David for your invitation not to ‘eschew’ this list with comments on the four questionnaires.It was interesting to go through the process of answering the questions, and i did get results ranging from the cautious : ‘this may no be for you’ to t…

Hello everyone,Just to let you know, in case you hadn’t spotted it, that Week 2 of ocTEL “Understanding Learners’ Needs” formally begins today, and you can see the activities at http://octel.alt.ac.uk/course-materials/understanding-learners-needs/Pleas…

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—– Original Message —–
From: Noumi N
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:34 am
Subject: [ocTEL-public] Introduction about me and no big question
To: OCTEL-PUBLIC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

> Hi all,
>
> sorry for the delay in the response for week 0 activity. My name is
> Noumi Nooruddeen from Hatfield. I am a Visiting Lecturer at University
> of Hertfordshire for the past 2 years and a HPL in FE education(
> Hertford Regional College) since 5 months. Quite new to teaching. But
> with a very supportive Line manager I am introduced […]

Hi all,sorry for the delay in the response for week 0 activity. My name is Noumi Nooruddeen from Hatfield. I am a Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire for the past 2 years and a HPL in FE education( Hertford Regional College) since 5 months…

Hi,In reference to multitasking it should be noted that the perception that this behaviour of “multi-processing” is unique to Net Gen as a result of their use of multiply technologies and associated activities, Brown (2000), is not the case as previous…

Dear Sue,Yes, I think they are definitely more motivated when using technology. Especially with certain subjects that they may find a bit boring.Regards,Zayneb—–Original Message—–From: ocTEL public mailing list [mailto:OCTEL-PUBLIC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK…

I am sure that our brains are just as smart as they were 1000 years ago! I agree what you say about multi-tasking. Anyone of us these days can multitask better than 20 or 30 years ago and I think this is due to all the technology. So I think that my qu…

Hi, just getting to grips with the course and catching up on emails. I teach on a vocational course and reflection and discussion are a large part of this. I agree that face to face is important . I would really like to start exploring how to get stude…

Eyup!I think that still the best teachers are humans and most of the best teaching is done in part face to face with the aid of advanced technology. If “smarter” means more capable then I suspect it is true that learners are generally smarter these day…