[ElizabethECharl]

Ali – thanks for sharing this.

Strangely enough I came across the following via Twitter (19/04) and though you might find it of interest:   http://t.co/WbZDeF6A5D

[ElizabethECharl]

Welcome to the group  and happy to have you.

I hope that by the end of the course you will have addressed your big question or at least started.  I think you may well find yourself generating additional big questions as we go along.

[ElizabethECharl]

Laura – I totally agree that alhough there are some postive aspects to Skinner’s TM –  key elements of interaction and social learning/networking  are absent.  Which is where I feel Mazur provides this space for engagement with the subject on many levels whilst working in small groups and sharing/teaching each other with the teacher as facilitator.

[ElizabethECharl]

Daran,

Thanks for the recommendation re Socrative and feedback about being consistent and enthusiastic for this to work.

[ElizabethECharl]

Indeed I would agree that a facilitator and social interaction in any educational setting is important, and that is very obviously missing from Skinner’s approach. I would find it quite worrying that it would be acceptable to not have these elements in place.

[ElizabethECharl]

Hi Ali,

I have to say that when I have tried this on one or two occassions you are correct that there was a reluctance to engage by students.  I have tried this with groups of students as part of their information skills/search sessions. I found that it did help to tell them that there was much they could learn from each other.  Those with more experience brought their expertise and those for whom there had been problems how to learn from their mistake.  It also helped that once they realised that there were others who had similar experiences and they were not alone.  The problem with this is that it requires time and that is in short supply, especially as I only get to see cohorts once in the academic year and twice if I am very lucky.  When it does work you can feel a real difference in the students’ attitude during the session with a much more positive buzz.

[ElizabethECharl]

Hi Scott,  As due to time and student numbers more and more teaching seems to take place in lecture theatre – I was really pleased that there was a story that could possibly address this situation.  The processing, reflection and application/planning for implementation that is supposed to take place also requires thinking time.  However it is such a precious commodity and you are right that to allow for this to take place the content would have to be reduced drastically or one or two universal themes/global principles addressed instead! Trying to get the balance right is always very tricky.

[ElizabethECharl]

Welcome Sarah,

Yes the teaching starts next week but in advance of this and to give you time to find your feet if this is your first MOOC the introduction and finding your way around the platform began last week.  This week is our week zero – so the equivalent of a soft launch to iron out bugs without too much pressure.  Something I really appreciate having experience a MOOC where this was not the case.  It is good to have you join the group and we look forward to your participation in the discussions.

[ElizabethECharl]

I have now reported this to ocTEL Technical team and hope to get a response soon.

[ElizabethECharl]

Welcome Kate,

Great to have you in the group. You and Bryony are two sides of the same coin – large lecture room session with no hands-on and smallish groups with hands-on. Your line below sums up the situation and objective that is common to so many academic information specialists:

how to create online resources which will supplement the probably limited learning that takes place in lecture hall settings, enabling students to develop their information literacy skills throughout their time here

 

[ElizabethECharl]

Hi Shuna,

Thank you for your reply that there isn’t an obvious way that we have overlooked.  Hopefully this is something the Technical team (octel-tech@alt.ac.uk) will put on their to-do list.

[ElizabethECharl]

Hi Elizabeth – I’ve just made a post on my own little discussion group page about exactly this thing – it seems if you click ‘reply’ to a comment (rather than posting a new comment at the end in the box) then that reply appears directly under the original comment – so new posts can appear on earlier pages rather than in chronological order. So far I’m keeping up with the new posts only because I’m getting email updates – but it seems a rather flawed system and means that the foorum is disintegrating into subchats. It would be really helpful to be able to set it into ‘most recent first’, but it doesn’t look like that’s the way it’s been set up.

[ElizabethECharl]

Good point about viewing of most recent post first.  When I logged this seemed to be already the case, but obviously not so for you.  I will chase this up.

Elizabeth

 

 

 

 

[ElizabethECharl]

Dear All,

We need to decide ‘where’ should be our main space for communication and discussion.

Please let me know if you are happy to meet in this space or possibly Google+ (I am aware of Helen Crump and Sue C being on Google+ but have not introduced themselves in this space) where we could recreate this small group? Eitherway feedback required.

 

[ElizabethECharl]

Welcome,

I think it will be a good balance in this group which will add to the variety and depth of discussions.  Production of discipline specific products  is a definite theme and not just in IL/DL. Such teaching seem to resonate and have more meaning for the user if they can make clear connection between the skill being introduced and how this relates to the discipline being studied… more views and voices will be heard on this I am sure!

Thank you for the reference to freeprint.com . It is new to me so I will have a look.

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