Tag: ALT

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Characterisation – ocTEL

Posted on by James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Having already decided on my big question one of the other things that the ocTEL course is asking: What characteristics do you think the participants in this course have in common? I have partly answered this already in my post about handling e-mail. What was interesting was how few people who responded to my post […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , ,

Playing by the rules – ocTEL

Posted on by James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

One comment I read in the influx of e-mail for this ocTEL course said in terms of organising participants into groups: I think we need to divide ourselves into subgroups for conversations to keep things manageable.  The question is, how to organise the subgroups? By type of job? By type of interest in this course? […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , ,

Week 1: Induction #ocTEL

Posted on by hopkinsdavid Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

So, we’re here! The ‘Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning’ started this week and we’re in for a fun and busy 10 weeks of MOOCing, hopefully. Registration is still open so, if you’re not one of the 900+ soles already involved and engaged, why not pop along to octel.alt.ac.uk and join in? What can we […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“I can’t handle the amount of e-mail…”

Posted on by James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Actually I can, but there are a fair few people who are participating in ocTEL who don’t seem to be able to handle the quantity of e-mail flooding into their inboxes having signed up to the MOOC. I will say I wasn’t expecting to get any e-mail, let alone the volumes that are coming through, […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , ,

What is the most important question about TEL for you?

Posted on by James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Having avoided taking part in a MOOC since they became the latest fad, I have now taken the plunge and enrolled on the ALT ocTEL MOOC. It only started yesterday, so it is way too early to tell if I will complete the course. One of my reasons for undertaking the ocTEL is to see […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , ,

Who are you? What do you want? – ocTEL

Posted on by James Clay Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Having avoided taking part in a MOOC since they became the latest fad, I have now taken the plunge and enrolled on the ALT ocTEL MOOC. So who am I? What do I want? I have been working with using technology in learning since the early 1990s. Prior to that I used technology as a […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , , , , , ,

Open online courses, a MOOC point?

Posted on by Tim Bones Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Yesterday, along with some 900 other people, I jumped in and began exploring The Association of Learning Technology’s MOOC. Named ocTEL Open Course in Technology and Learning, ALT describe the course as being “…an online course to help you understand better how to use technology to enhance your teaching practice. The course is aimed primarily at […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , , , , , ,

First task: respond to the questions.

Posted on by tunners78 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Well, here goes on my very first blog on a few days after my first tweet and it’s all thanks to #ocTEL  There follows answers to the questions posed in the induction activities 0.1. Neat way to get started! your previous experiences with TEL and what technology was involved My previous experience with technology enhanced […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , ,

First task: respond to the questions.

Posted on by tunners78 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Well, here goes on my very first blog on a few days after my first tweet and it’s all thanks to #ocTEL  There follows answers to the questions posed in the induction activities 0.1. Neat way to get started! your previous experiences with TEL and what technology was involved My previous experience with technology enhanced […]

Read more ›

Tagged with: , , ,
Top