[elearningcolin]

Hey folks,

Thought I’d join in this discussion as it fits my role pretty well. I’m a TEL Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier Uni and help lecturers around the university to make better use of both Moodle and a range of other learning techs in their teaching. I think we’re supposed to introduce ourselves during this week so, for lack of a better place to do it, here goes! My Profile

Moodle use is similar here at Edinburgh Napier as that described above. Mostly it’s a Doc/PDF/Powerpoint delivery tool, but there are a few great cases of lecturers using it to offer really great blended learning, and even better student support. I run a staff development course called ‘Making Moodle Modules that Shine’ aimed at making more readable, usable and engaging moodle courses, and uptake has been amazing. Lecturers really want to get better at this, but they’re struggling with the time and the skills.

Niall, I also agree with you in that MOOCs have been around for ages, but with a much less defined spec. Forums from 15 years ago could almost fit the bill, where users would post tutorials around particular topics, mostly tech related, and then other users would follow them, comment on them, discuss improvements to the technique, etc. Then too it was the problem of collating the ‘good stuff’. I see this course is using something called the ‘course reader’ to collate people’s external contributions, but there’s so much in there I’m never going to keep up. Definitely a challenge…

Colin

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