Joseph Gliddon

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:27:35 GMT
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So I have my thoughts on first activity this week for #octel  I looked at Mazur and Downes, Flipped classroom vs MOOC

Joseph Gliddon

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:17:56 GMT
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For #ocTEL we are looking at the flipped classroom.  Professor Mazur is one of the key figures in why this has become so popular.  Here is a video of one of his classes where he is flipping.  Compare the noise levels at 3.01 with the noise of a normal lecture. 
Also – I would love to know what the answers the students gave before and after were, I think I can guess but would like comfirmation

James Clay

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:12:14 GMT
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#ocTEL 

So what if I am not connected?

e-Learning Stuff

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:19:39 GMT
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e-Learning Stuff

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:19:21 GMT
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Phil Tubman

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:34:39 GMT
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John Graves

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:12:17 GMT
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726 participants – and growing? By copying and pasting the participants list into Excel and sorting, the user names of ocTEL participants, from AdamButt to Zohra Mahmood AliSurani, number 726 as of 15 April 2013. 

List:
http://octel.alt.ac.uk/course-discussions/participants-list/

A post from +David Jennings put the number at “over 300” on 12 March 2013, 
http://octel.alt.ac.uk/new-course-outline-and-confirmed-dates/
so the list has at least doubled in a month. Keep that up for a year and we’ll have 2220705 participants!

It is interesting how this number compares with the scale of some other MOOCs
http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html

+John Duhring in another forum ([1] or [2]) observed the community interested in this topic is actually rather small — today. I wonder if we are just at the start of the kind of transformation illustrated by the “Announcement of the Pope: 2005 vs 2013” images:
http://instagram.com/p/W2BuMLQLRB/

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112542481102501875677
[2] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110147344160609001644

John Graves

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:13:59 GMT
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One of the features “missing” from Google Apps may be a blog post/bookmark aggregation functionality which reaches out across Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Delicious, Diigo, Mendeley Group (and more?) and collects all the material tagged for a course.

ocTEL has such a system, called the Course Reader, described in this video:
Customisation of the Responsive Theme for WordPress turning it into a Google Reader style RSS reader

available on github as “MOOC in a Box”:
https://github.com/mhawksey/moocinabox

John Graves

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:23:03 GMT
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Please add a link directly to http://octel.alt.ac.uk/ and the ocTEL forum or Course Reader from this group. Moderators can do this under Actions > Edit community.

Joseph Gliddon

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:39:58 GMT
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Ok so this week at #ocTEL  aim 3 is “get a feel for what learning technology is and what learning technologists do”
These 2 posts might give an idea of what technology is
http://wp.me/p1gWAk-3b “part 1”
http://wp.me/p1gWAk-5a “part 2”
Or at the very least, what I think it is 🙂