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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

[OCTEL] Daily newsletter

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June 22, 2013
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#ocTEL week 10: evaluating TEL

June 21, 2013 | Open Plan Publishing

Designing in features of evaluation gives you a chance to see how your TEL resources are being used, and also provides evidence that might help people to buy into what you’re doing (or tell you if you’ve got it totally … Continue reading → Read more »

Learning from failure

June 21, 2013 | Learning Theology Online

In an article on the Secrets of mLearning Failures: Confronting Reality, Thomas Cochrane suggests that “Often the most significant breakthroughs in pedagogical transformation resulting from participatory action research are those borne of experiences of failure and critical reflection upon the surrounding issues” (p. 132). (Article available at: http://www.researchinlearnin... This is Read more »

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#ocTEL ends with a leisurely dip.

June 20, 2013 | Learningcreep

Before #ocTEL rolls out of town, I spent a couple of pleasant hours today looking over some of the course materials and posts from the last couple of weeks. Although I’ve been deleting the daily newsletter for the last couple of weeks because I wasn’t able to engage sufficiently with Read more »

[Presentation] ALT Scotland SIG: ALT’s ocTEL MOOC Experience

June 20, 2013 | Jisc CETIS MASHe

Another day, another presentation. Today I’m at ALT Scotland’s SIG highlighting some of the experiences of developing/delivering the ocTEL open course. Slides are embedded below: ALT’s ocTEL MOOC experience: Designing the platform from Martin Hawksey Read more »

Thoughts on completing ALT’s ocTEL 2013 (v1.0)

June 20, 2013 | Online Learning Online

For the last eleven weeks, I have been participating in the UK’s Association for Learning Technology’s (ALT) Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) (http://octel.alt.ac.uk/).&n... It was designed as a connectivist MOOC (cMOOC), utilizing … Read more »

ocTEL – Engaging and Effective Learning Materials

June 20, 2013 | Emily’s Blog

So the task is to find a relevant open access resource I could use in my teaching … 1. OpenLearn- Safari As the OU are our new validating partner, they seemed a good place to srat. I have heard about … Continue reading → Read more »

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#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.3 Extended: An Evaluation of my own participation in #ocTEL

June 19, 2013 | Education, Learning and Technology | Education, Learning and Technology

I’m finally joining in again at the end.  As ocTEL is finishing this week after its first run and I have been being a lurker rather than an active participant since week 4-5, although I did tutor on week 5 and 7. Tutoring was good but often meant that in Read more »

#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.3 What do you think about ocTEL?

June 19, 2013 | Education, Learning and Technology | Education, Learning and Technology

Revisiting the big TEL Questions… At the start of ocTEL I wrote the following blog post around the BIG technology enhanced learning questions. I was concerned with the wider questions around: Political changes in the education system Change occurring in society (e.g. technology) Interpreting and understanding how these affect both Read more »

#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.1

June 19, 2013 | Education, Learning and Technology | Education, Learning and Technology

Reflecting on evaluation instruments / tools. Whilst being quite familiar with evaluation tools such as Bristol Online Surveys, SurveyMonkey and evaluative tools in VLEs such as Blackboard I have chosen a bespoke use of Moodle to perform an evaluation for study days. The Context and Tool There was a need Read more »

#ocTEL week 10 Reflecting on the ocTEL experience

June 19, 2013 | alicesadventuresinedtech

My big question from the start of the course was  ‘How do we use technologies to enrich teaching and encourage our students to use them to enrich their learning, while still respecting individual differences and preferences? While I don’t think I have answered this question during the 11 weeks of participation, I Read more »

#ocTEL week 10 Reflecting on the ocTEL experience

June 19, 2013 | alicesadventuresinedtech

My big question from the start of the course was  ‘How do we use technologies to enrich teaching and encourage our students to use them to enrich their learning, while still respecting individual differences and p
references? While I don’t think I have answered this question during the 11 weeks of participation, I Read more »

MOOCS: P2 W0 D1 L1

June 19, 2013 | Phil Vincent

Okay, so it’s confession time, I haven’t been engaging with the ocTEL MOOC since having signed up back in April! MOOC 1 – 0 Phil I started with the best of intentions, as I’m sure we all do, but life…Read more › Read more »

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#ocTEL Week 9 Risk Management

June 18, 2013 | The Virtual Leader

This week’s activity is called”Cheating Murphy’s Law”. I was about to embark on the first activity – reviewing a previous project and saying where it had gone wrong, what I would do differently etc when real life intervened and I was suddenly confronte… Read more »

Live by the sword… (MOOCs)

June 18, 2013 | Online Learning Online

Using technology in instruction, meetings, or presentations has always been a double-edged sword. The more it is depended on, the more spectacular are the failures when technology doesn’t cooperate.  When technology is so fully integrated into the… Read more »

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#ocTEL week 9: it looks like we might have made it…

June 17, 2013 | Open Plan Publishing

The sun is shining here and our daughters are bouncing on the trampoline outside. It’s week 9 of ocTEL, and although I have to confess to some MOOC weariness I’m determined to be one of the 4% who make it … Continue reading → Read more »

Sometimes you have got to take the risk of failing #octel

June 17, 2013 | Jo Conlon #OcTEL 2013

Reblogged from More than just Content: “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti As you have probably guessed I have gone “off piste” again this week. Read more »

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ocTEL Week 10 Webinar

June 14, 2013

Join our weekly webinar at 12.30 on Thursday 20 June, via Blackboard Collaborate 11.

You can access the Week 10 webinar via this link.

This week’s webinar

PLEASE NOTE this week’s webinar is on THURSDAY at 12.30pm rather than the usual Wednesday lunchtime.

To mark the final session of ocTEL, this week’s webinar comes in two parts, reflecting the double roles of our guest, Dr Rachel Harris. In the first part, Rachel will give an account of her experience of evaluating a large number of Technology Enhanced Learning projects in higher education. Rachel is also the official evaluator of ocTEL, and in the second part she will lead a live evaluation and feedback session about ocTEL.

We hope the webinar will bring together many of the authors and tutors who have developed and supported ocTEL. We will be holding a virtual end of term get together for all involved to discuss our experiences of the
course, get some feedback and share memories. The session will end at a look at the future development of ocTEL and provide inspiration of how participants can continue their involvement in the course and the Association for Learning Technology.

About the presenter

Rachel Harris directs Inspire Research Ltd, an independent consultancy specialising in evaluation and research into learning. Rachel has over 20 years experience in evaluation, research and development, much of which has focused on technology enhanced learning. This has included leading a team to establish an international online collaborative environment; supporting small practitioner-led e-learning initiatives and a university-wide virtual campus; acting as an evaluation critical-friend on Jisc-funded programmes; and independently evaluating various learning related projects. Rachel is a long-standing member of ALT, the BPS, the HE Academy, and serves on ALT’s Research Committee.

We will make the recording of this session available via the Course Materials page.

Webinar help and FAQ’s

For help prior to the webinar and some frequently asked questions please visit our help page.

If you have any questions contact octel-tech@alt.ac.uk.
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Sometimes you have got to take the risk of failing #octel

June 13, 2013 | More than just Content

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti As you have probably guessed I have gone “off … Continue reading → Read more »

MOOCs and Mobile Access

June 13, 2013 | Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

This is an excellent post  from Inge Ignatia de Waard on the impact of mobile access on learner interactions in a MOOC as part of her progress towards a PhD. I’ve added her slide deck below for you as this has some excellent findings and figures. I am also (still) reading Inge’s Read more »

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Week 9 webinar recording now available

June 12, 2013

Thanks to everyone who took part in ocTEL’s webinar this week.

If you missed all or part of the week 9 webinar, the materials from the session are now available on the Course Materials page, which is updated weekly with materials from each live webinar.

Join us next Thursday at 12:30 BST for the week 10 webinar. Check the Course Materials page for more information.
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#ocTEL week 8: learning for learning’s sake?

June 12, 2013 | Open Plan Publishing

The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit organisation whose “mission” is “to make education freely available to all” regardless of a student’s location or finances. Sounds good, eh? The Saylor model is all about aggregation: it pulls in open or creative … Continue reading → Read more »

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