Hello everyone,As lead tutor for this week, I’d like to welcome you to WEEK 6 of ocTEL. We’re now at the half-way point of this 10 week MOOC and it’s great to see many of you still actively engaged with the course.I’m from Glasgow Caledonian University…

Hello,It’s important to remember when we speak of responsibility that onlinedelivery has expanded the reach of education very far outside thetraditional model of student that we’ve built our expectations around. Mostof our students are the first in the…

HiThank you for the responses to my earlier post which may well be labelled flabbergastergate! It is interesting to see how the post has been interpreted and I wholeheartedly agree with the responses that we should make no assumptions about what our le…

Hi there. I really appreciate Sue’s mention of student responsibility. Over the last few days I have been mulling over all the things I could improve on to help students, but the flip side of that is we should have a certain level of expectation that o…

Hi all good discussion which we have frequently in high education , I also think it is about the learners taking some of the responsibility for their own learning you could question why someone would want to do an online course if they have not got the…

Hello Roger and fellow ocTEL participants,Thank you, Roger, for putting this so succinctly. I read part of the debate this morning and I have been struggling with how to formulate my own response to what at the end of your email you refer to as ‘elitis…

That’s a great posting Roger, thanks for reminding us that not everybody has access to the gadgets and services that we take for granted (anybody recall the theme of digital exclusion in the information society?) – and for putting the learner at the ce…

Hi, I appreciate it can be frustrating to try and understand the learning experience from the perspective of the student. I have many years experience too, meeting students who enrol for an online distance learning course. Our students have varying levels of ICT or digital literacy skills. This can make one question why they have then decided to enrol on an online course. About a third of our students are based overseas – some of these students have extremely limited broadband activity at home, or none at all. They have to use a local internet café, and even when using […]

Hi Karen. Excellent point! I teach online courses and have constant issues with students that either are not computer literate and/or have limited access to the Internet. And they CHOOSE to take an online course! Strange but true. It would be great to …

Just a quick reminder that we’d really appreciate your help in telling us what you expect and hope for from ocTEL.Please could you complete the 5-10 minute questionnaire at http://goo.gl/UdWH5 (or click the big blue button on your next visit to http://…