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  • April 8, 2013 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Small group for those teaching Business Education? #1213
    AliSheph
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    Hi Andrew

    There’s some interesting stuff in the iPads thread on this forum.  It’s early days yet for us.

    Re the online MBA module, it was at my previous institution so their IP but broadly, it was an introductory/intermediate financial accounting course.  We developed a workbook as the central resource, which was specifically written for the course with a series of short chapters by topic, including theory text and practice questions.  This was pdf via the Blackboard VLE plus hard copy.  There were then answers released to the practice questions on adaptive release, plus a discussion forum woven by me with space for less structured queries/interaction/peer to peer assistance, plus more structured forum activities on a weekly basis.  For revision, we then had some screencasts where I worked through particular tricky question types with technique tips in the audio commentary, and then partnering discussion forum threads.  Seemed to work quite well – the feedback was good, students who were across timezones and timepoor liked the structured but asynchronous approach, and the exam results were not too bad for what was deemed a difficult module.

    April 8, 2013 at 7:57 pm in reply to: Using iPads to deliver courses? #1209
    AliSheph
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    Hi Roger

    Interesting stuff – to use the jargon, I think provision of feedback is quite a situated practice, strong preferences etc.  When I did an online marking pilot with Grademark a couple of years ago on PC one of the biggest issues was that our particular assignment had a landscape page in it and there was no function to rotate the page!  Not a problem we had envisaged…:)

    April 8, 2013 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Using iPads to deliver courses? #1208
    AliSheph
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    Yes – I’ve been blogging about these issues at http://alicesadventuresinedtech.wordpress.com

    I am going to a seminar given by David White tomorrow about expectations and online activities of students (one of his most cited papers is at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3171/3049, so I’ll pick up anything of interest and share it.

    April 7, 2013 at 11:10 am in reply to: Introduction #1017
    AliSheph
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    Hi Everyone

    Reading with interest the diversity of experiences here.   I’m also not new to TEL, but not expert either!   My intro and big question are on my blog.  http://alicesadventuresinedtech.wordpress.com/

    April 7, 2013 at 10:41 am in reply to: Using iPads to deliver courses? #1015
    AliSheph
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    I’m planning a pilot with a small group of staff to explore affordances and iPad pedagogies.  I’m currently undecided about single platform vs BYOD – I have recently got a Google Nexus tablet and I’m impressed with it’s abilities, but haven’t fully explored it yet.  I’m planning to use it as my comparison point for the iPad.

    April 7, 2013 at 10:23 am in reply to: Small group for those teaching Business Education? #1014
    AliSheph
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    Hi Jane and Andrew

    I teach accounting at Leeds University Business School – so I’d love to join your group.  We use Blackboard and I’m using a range of other technologies in my teaching – Twitter, Articulate and podcasts being the most recent of these.  I’m in the process of planning a small project where a group of colleagues will use iPads to develop our teaching, grounded in our subject discipline.

    My intro. is at http://alicesadventuresinedtech.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/octel-week-0-introduction/

    Nice to meet you both!

    Alice

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