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Roger Harrison
Sat, 11 May 2013 03:03:31 GMT
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Hello, I've seen the fascinating link from John Duhring which gives a network analysis of the twitter conversations for a particular course. I've also come across ideas where students can use whatever tools they want to share/discuss/comment (like the system in OcTEL MOOC) and they then get aggregated into one single place for all to view. What I'd like to know is how to do this. It would be great to see if I can persuade my Faculty to allow this for a course I teach on. If anyone could send me a link to how to set this up that would be great.
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Hi, I'm a senior lecturer in public health, at the University of Manchester. For seven years I have been course unit leader on a fully online distance learning programme in public health/primary care. I've been designing & running course units for this, using Blackboard now. I work with other lecturers alongside a e-learning team. Having students all over the world helps give an interesting perspective to the teaching of public health and to using online learning. I am keen to learn more about pedagogical principles and development for technology enhanced learning, and how to maximise the student learning experience. More recently I have become involved in developing proposals and hopefully design and running of a MOOC. I am also interested in exploring greater use of OERs for public health and would like to pursue my research interest/hypothesis I am calling "Just In Time Learning". But with a PhD already alongside other things, my friends are trying to keep me away from more studying. I am a convert for free-education across the world, which is frustrating at times working in a university which clearly needs to bring in income too. But massive shifts have taken place with Web 2 and democratic education movements. I would like to find out if there is a local network / northern network for TEHL in higher education, and if not, perhaps we could start one.