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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Hi Jillian, I love your knot analogy. I could envisage extending it to that feeling of having to craft…

Rachel Harris

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:48:58 GMT
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Hi Jillian, I love your knot analogy. I could envisage extending it to that feeling of having to craft what I write on a blog post (knot 6.31), rather than just getting the ideas out there (knot 0.1)! I think that is why I find twitter so much easier.
Glad to hear you enjoyed ocTEL!
Rachel

Activity 10.3 I had two questions How will I/we/they (academics) know when/whether the technologies deployed have enhanced learning?  How can we identify when learners have disengaged from learning because the technolog…

Activity 7 Supporting Learners with Tutor and Peer Communications

Jillian Pawlyn

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:21:37 GMT
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This week I focussed on two activities. Activity 7.2: The practice of peer review Review a fellow participant’s post on Activity 7.1 – ( I selected http://www.megankime.net/models-for-supporting-learning-salmon-octel-7-1/ )…

#ocTEL Week 9 Risk Management

Jane Challinor

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:05:40 GMT
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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 a…

Activity 5.2 and 5.3

Jillian Pawlyn

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:36:00 GMT
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Activity 5.2: Practicals What is your current virtual learning environment or the main technology you use? Blackboard Learn 9.1.9  moving soon to SP11 How does it differ from the ocTEL platform?  It is a closed en…

This week the  #octel  mooc was about project management.  I decided to look at it differently

Joseph Gliddon

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:42:52 GMT
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This week the  #octel  mooc was about project management.  I decided to look at it differently

“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 gu…

You know the "if you only do one thing" bit, I only did a different thing.

Joseph Gliddon

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:44:43 GMT
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You know the “if you only do one thing” bit, I only did a different thing.

“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 gu…

Go Jim!

Sandra Sinfield

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:41:34 GMT
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Go Jim!

One of the Week 7 Tasks for http://octel.alt.ac.uk/ was:  ·       How you would you implement one or more kinds of support in some learning provision in which you are involved? ·       How would these meet the needs of y…

Good to still see so many people on the old #EDCMooc space.  I am doing another mooc at the moment and…

Joseph Gliddon

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:43:09 GMT
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Good to still see so many people on the old #EDCMooc space.  I am doing another mooc at the moment and this weeks learning was all about enhancing learning – but a lot of the readings seemed to be about reducing staff time so it inspired me to video this quick interview

I was looking at the #octel video on the Saylor Foundation and my first thought was – oh there are no lecturers at all. This made me realise that a fear that academics have been telling me about fo…

#ocTEL Week 8 Enhancement

Jane Challinor

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:08:42 GMT
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If you didn’t already realise it, I am a big fan of virtual learning, TEL, MOOCs, PLEs etc so I have enjoyed this week’s assignments – especially the videos about Saylor and Udacity. I admit I haven’t  really thought in terms…

e-Learning Stuff » Blog Archive » Assessing Assessment – ocTEL

e-Learning Stuff

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:20:37 GMT
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This week on ocTEL we’re looking at assessment. As part of my thinking I refelcted on the use of quizzes in Moodle. Designing Moodle quizzes is much more than just been able to use the quiz tool from a technical perspective. There is a real art to crafting questions so that they not only allow …

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