[Kulari Lokuge Dona]

My practices are also all over the graph. Some areas are more for certain units while for some units it is different.

Some times the design and use of these tools depends on the student cohort and what type of delivery is used as well as the level of the course. If it is a research project it belongs to one area while hands on unit sit in another area.

[Kulari Lokuge Dona]

Hi All,

 

I am a Learning Technologist, I added myself for the Google group, as I am interested in investigating Google as an educational Tool.

*What can I say about the TEL participants:

Like some of you already mentioned I think there is a wide range of people with various Teaching and Learning and administrative capacities. The participants are here to share and gather knowledge.

*MOOCs

I feel that MOOCs are knowledge sharing method more than anything. It also allows like minded people to gather and discuss similar issues, while going through similar content. I think being able to access wide variety of resources, course delivery models is a great experience. As an educator it opens up different models that were locked, or available for a specific group of people (enrolled learners), now it is available to larger population!

 

 

 

[Kulari Lokuge Dona]

Hi Roger,

One of my passions is to support the developing countries with their education. Google is great with most of their tools but the Hangouts – has not been that great. Skype has been better with Synchronous sessions. But with the people who have no connection, old Distance Education methods work better. With one group, what we did was created the resources and gave them a resource CD. But they needed to come to community houses to get connected to (access net) to participate  in the discussions and other activities that they were expected to participate. This really worked well. They read the content and did some of the work that they had to do and then participated in the discussion and other activities when they came to the community centre.

I was involved in another project where the participants were given mobile devices as part of the course materials 🙂 (well if your participants live in an area there is no connection at all this is not a solution). But that project kicked off so well, and they were adult learners who found use of mobiles quite entertaining, and they started using the device in very innovative ways ( at that time couple of years ago it was quite fascinating to see rural people using the mobile to communicate with embedding photos etc they were farmers questioning about problems about crops etc).

I have a group of students from Uganda, who rock up into their college and use one computer, project it to the big screen to talk to me, and take a class from me( I live in Melbourne).

Hope I did not bore you with all my examples, but more than happy to share ideas and learn from you too. Looking forward to working with you all in this course!

Kulari

 

 

[Kulari Lokuge Dona]

Interested about this topic, as  am also planning to trial Google for Higher Education. I want to see what we can do with Google, I know couple of universities that is trialing it. I am quite enthusiastic try out and see how it goes and how innovative can educators be with tools such as Google. There are two reasons: 1 it is free to some extent 2 would like to see how innovative we can be.

[Kulari Lokuge Dona]

Hi everyone in the quite corner,

I am from down under (Melbourne). I have been highly involved with TEL since 2002, when I stop and think back it is a long time. With various teaching and learning positions (Senior Lecturer, E-learning advocate) I have been trialing and using various tools and resources in the e-learning world to make better learning experiences.

As an educator I have tried my best to provide different levels of support to my students through media and digital tools, while leading projects providing professional development to staff to do the same. Innovative tools were introduced to staff based on their requirements and supported online course design and delivery. With Gilly Salmons 5 stage model I have been involved with the e-moderating course  and use of Carpe Diem model for course development. With a background in IT,  playing with new tools evaluating them for their capabilities for course delivery.

Matt, I like the quote you included in your post “Leonhard (2013) recently said: Mobile means the end of learning monopolies (for institutions) and the end of “I don’t know” (for users)” for two years I was working with a developing country, which gave me so much insights to what and how these tools can be used to eradicate education divide. I am looking forward to explore great ideas and share idea within this course. I also like to explore Google tools (hen will be joining that group to learn how people are using this tool) .

Looking forward to working with you.

Kulari

 

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