[SimonBates]

Dear Dranners and Solent Roger.

I think there are technological tools that work across the whole spectrum from instructivist learning on one side to constructivist learning on the other.  Lecture capture for example in its simplist form is a technology but does not engender collaboration.  However, if used in order to use classroom time for peer led activity, it is used for collaboration through a flipped model.

on the other hand, there is an increasing movement towards collaboration in learning and the more constructivist tools such as wikis, blogs, learning portfolios are great tools to support this activity and afford a great number of pedagogies.

 

[SimonBates]

Hi

Would be great to join this group if you can allow an unlucky 13th?  I’m project manager for e-Learning at University of West England in Bristol.

Fairly new to the world of TEL on the whole, my role is quite focused on increasing the use of Blackboard in the faculty and supporting new projects and initiatives.  It’s a kind of top-down/bottom up approach: we want staff to engage in TEL for their own reasons but have come to recognise that a set of minimum standards has to be introduced or we only end up working with the most enthusiastic.

So… I am interested in change management, motivations to adopt new pedagogies and technologies and most of all the move from instruction to construction as a basis for learning.

Hope it is not too late to jump in (my boss has put this MOOC in my performance review so I  have to complete it!)  I’ll be the one to turn the lights out!

All the best,

Simon

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