Hi,Added the Prensky reference to Mendeley, you can access the full reference and paper at ocTEL group on Mendeley.Interesting paper, so true, but our children generation need support in filtering information soup, multiply technology makes it easy to …

Hi Tom,You’re right that MOOCs are best for people who already know how to learnin quasi-formal and self-directed settings so they are not likely toreplace schools, at least not in their present form. They do not offer anyof the pastoral functions that…

I was trying to understand the scope of the questions that people were asking, and struggling a bit, so I have been through most of the posts and copied and pasted them (together with the author) into a table, which I have tried to group a bit – again …

HiI teach at an FE college delivering PGCE and Cert Ed courses. I think you are right about tablets. I have been trying to get more to use in teacher training for some time now. This September, without prompting, three first year students got out their…

Hi AnneI really enjoyed reading this e-mail – not something I say often! You have also provided references that will be very useful for trainee teachers on the courses I deliver as a teacher educator.Many thanksJanet

HiGood to hear that people with lots of experience can find these environments a challenge too! I have used your link to cut down the flood of e-mails. I also looked at the Gilly Salmon link, which was excellent ( putting it on the Moodle course for tr…

Hi All,

This is my first experience of mooc and at first I was overwhelmed by all the emails that arrived in my inbox. Thank goodness my students are on holiday otherwise I would never have been able to glance at some emails never mind read some. Any way things have calmed down now I have managed to get on the automatic digest system and only receive one a day. I am looking forward to getting started as just a life experience(good or bad). I don’t know if I will have time to complete the course but I will do […]

I have been a learning technologist of one sort or another for about 20 years. I have worked for JISC and a number of JISC funded projects and services before setting up as an independent consultant helping (mostly) universities to make more effective …

‘Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies; however, it has been on that brink for some decades now.’Is a great question, and I think that we are often too close to the issue to be able to see the answer, or what the …

Ajitha Nayar 1. I prefer to receive just one daily email with all the conversations in itsend an email to listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk with no subject and the command in the body of the email.SET OCTEL-PUBLIC DIGESTS2. I don’t want to receive any email…