[NickBunyan]

Craig,

What do you find is the reticence with your staff in getting them to use their Moodle sites?

Nick

[NickBunyan]

Hi Peter!

Number of reasons for getting staff to experience MOOC’s as part of a PG Cert. We are developing a new module for the programme that is essentially looking at a wide range of innovative (including local innovation) & emerging forms of blended and online leaning so that staff are exposed to a bigger ‘ecology’ of ways to learn beyond the usual use of VLE module to support campus-based learning etc.

MOOC’s just as one example of an emerging form of ODL, plus other forms such as our Laureate partnership, online CPD etc. Just to get them looking a little more fundamentally at how changes in the future might (or might not!)  impact on ‘traditional’ forms of learning.

Using the MOOC really as something to experience, to develop critical faculties rather than a perfect form of learning!

There is an interesting question for mid-ranking research-led institutions like Liverpool – possibly caught between low cost providers and the research supers stars. We seem to be taking an interesting strategy with a partnership with a for-profit ODL provider, alongside an international branch campus & overseas physical campus strategy.

Nick

 

[NickBunyan]

I think the interesting thing about MOOC’s is not in the technology – the Coursera platform is basically a very simple VLE with nothing much new in it – its the open free (at the moment) access, ‘unbundelling’ of the traditional course structure, and opening up some diversity in subject areas etc. that makes this initiative interesting. Its a new addition to the learning ecosystem.

Surely the important issue is how we can improve learning, and improve access to learning for all types of learners – and how technology can be utilised to support this?

Nick

 

 

 

 

[NickBunyan]

Currently we have an optional module in our PG Cert that we are intending to phase out and replace it with something about ’emerging forms of learning design’ part of which will get staff to take and critically engage with new forms of learning such as MOOC’s. This new module will still have a significant TEL component, but more consciously focused on learning design than the technology.

How do you currently support TEL within your PG Cert at Bristol?

Nick

[NickBunyan]

Hi Andrew,

Yes, I agree – I have tended to ‘mine’ MOOC’s for their content and not been to bothered about the assessments and interactions.

Depends on your purpose for engaging with them.

Nick

 

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