This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Introduction & Big Question

My name is Olaojo Aiyegbayo and I work as a Research Assistant at the University of Huddersfield’s Teaching and Learning Institute. I don’t do any teaching at the moment but I do support academics so the knowledge gained via this MOOC should help me better support academic colleagues at UoH.

I have signed up for three Coursera MOOCs in the last 8 months which I have not completed. I am part of the massive participant drop-out stats cited against MOOCS. I am hoping that I will be able to complete the OCTEL MOOC. I believe I have a better chance because doing the OCTEL MOOC is part of my work activity whereas I have had to do previous Coursera MOOCs at home outside work hours when I was too tired and busy to engage with them.

My big question is:

What makes academics adopt good TEL practices – what makes them cross the change threshold of dropping an old TEL practice and adopting a new one?


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