Tag: Distance Learning

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Free eBook/iBook: “Advances in Technology Enhanced Learning” #edtech

Posted on by hopkinsdavid Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

This is a great free eBook / iBook, for the iPad, from The Open University: ”Advances in Technology Enhanced Learning”. The eBook aims to present a “range of research projects which aim to explore how to make engagement in learning (and teaching) more passionate” and to introduce “methodological and technological breakthroughs” to learners, instructors, and decision-makers in […]

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MSc in Learning Innovation #mscli

Posted on by hopkinsdavid Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Regular readers will know I’ve been writing about what I think it is to be a Learning Technologist in a series of posts I’ve been calling ‘What is a Learning Technologist?’. Welcome to part 10 in that series. Read the previous part, part 9: ‘Ignorance is bliss?’ Part of my journey is the continuing exploration of […]

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Infographic: Characteristics of a (successful) online student #ocTEL

Posted on by hopkinsdavid Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

What is at the core of an online course or a MOOC? You could argue it’s the academic integrity of the materials or learning. It could be the level of student engagement in required activities. I would argue that (even if not at the core, but very close to it) should be the expectations placed […]

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Week 1: TEL Concepts and Approaches #ocTEL

Posted on by hopkinsdavid Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Firstly … yes, I know the ‘error’ in the title! This one is called ‘Week 1 …’, and so was the last one: “Week 1: Induction #ocTEL”. I made a mistake, last week. While last week was technically the first week of the MOOC it was not assigned a numerical identity as it was the […]

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Beginning the Journey

Posted on by JaneBritton Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I have just signed up for the ocTEL MOOC and plan to document my journey using this blog.  I haven’t used WordPress before – I usually blog using the **whispers** competitor platform. I want to learn more about how to use technology to enhance my students’ experience, learn to use new tools and develop more […]

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Beginning the Journey

Posted on by JaneBritton Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I have just signed up for the ocTEL MOOC and plan to document my journey using this blog.  I haven’t used WordPress before – I usually blog using the **whispers** competitor platform. I want to learn more about how to use technology to enhance my students’ experience, learn to use new tools and develop more […]

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ocTEL week 0: big questions

Posted on by Alejandro Armellini Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Activity 0.1 asks us:  what is the most important question about TEL for you? Mine is: how can we get rid of the ‘T’ in ‘TEL’? The question could be re-phrased as: how can technology become transparent, invisible and normalised? Something … Continue reading →

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ocTEL week 0: big questions

Posted on by Alejandro Armellini Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Activity 0.1 asks us:  what is the most important question about TEL for you? Mine is: how can we get rid of the ‘T’ in ‘TEL’? The question could be re-phrased as: how can technology become transparent, invisible and normalised? Something … Continue reading →

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