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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

#ocTEL week 8: learning for learning’s sake?

Posted on by Stuart Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit organisation whose “mission” is “to make education freely available to all” regardless of a student’s location or finances. Sounds good, eh? The Saylor model is all about aggregation: it pulls in open or creative … Continue reading →

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#ocTEL Week 2 – Digital Literacy Questionnaires

Posted on by ejarmstrong Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Looking at the examples given e.g. Penn State University of Houstonthere seems to be some confusion as to the purpose of these questionnaires. If the purpose is for an individual tutor to assess likely barriers to learning at the start … Continue reading →

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#ocTEL Week 2 – Digital Literacy Questionnaires

Posted on by ejarmstrong Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Looking at the examples given e.g. Penn State University of Houstonthere seems to be some confusion as to the purpose of these questionnaires. If the purpose is for an individual tutor to assess likely barriers to learning at the start … Continue reading →

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ejarmstrong: Help! Have got really behind with #ocTEL – do I start from this week (Week 9) and work backwards? Or try and pick up where I left off ?

Posted on by ejarmstrong Posted in Social networks, Twitter (Q&A)

Help! Have got really behind with #ocTEL – do I start from this week (Week 9) and work backwards? Or try and pick up where I left off ?— Emily Armstrong (@ejarmstrong) June 11, 2013

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Thoughts in motion

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

  (Image: Keep the thought in motion – Olimpia Zagnoli) Some strands from ocTEL are beginning to slice together today.  As a course team we are preparing for course planning next month.  We had a useful pre-meeting and have agreed to map out through all the modules of the course some key themes. Three elements […]

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julievoce: @ejarmstrong Up to you where you want to restart with #ocTEL. I'd suggest seeing which topics most interest you and starting there :)

Posted on by Julie Voce Posted in Social networks, Twitter (Q&A)

@ejarmstrong Up to you where you want to restart with #ocTEL. I’d suggest seeing which topics most interest you and starting there 🙂

— Julie Voce (@julievoce) June 11, 2013

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Reading: Chapter 15 HEA / TEL – Learners in Control

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

As earlier postings,  the OcTEL orientation resources takes you to this publication: Transforming Higher Education Through Technology Enhanced Learning Publication Date: 23-12-2009 Available at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/learningandtech/transforming_he_through_technology_enhanced_learning.  I’ve put the full link in again after being unable to find it for 10 minutes!  The chapter 15 link is here too: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/learningandtech/Transforming-15.pdf I don’t know how come  I initially skipped […]

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Reading: Chapter 17 HEA / TEL – podcasting for pedagogic purposes

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Chapter 17 by Newton and Middleton Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes: The journey so far and some lessons learned http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/learningandtech/Transforming-17.pdf I really liked this chapter.  I think I was influenced by the early inclusion of CoP, Biggs’ constructive alignment and a whiff of ‘it’s not napster’ in the opening paragraphs. P236:If we aspire to a learner-centred, well-aligned, constructivist paradigm, we […]

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Reading Chapter 16 HEA / TEL

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Chapter 16: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/learningandtech/Transforming-16.pdf Transforming higher education through technology-enhanced learning is about DeMonfort’s pathfinder project It describes how Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the learning context and argues for a debate on the challenges that have emerged. Case studies are also provided. Page 225: How can an HEI begin to make sense of the proliferation of read/write […]

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Information Obesity: Why it’s not just about having too much

Posted on by jrconlon95 Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

In the webinar for week 4 (I think) the term ‘information obesity’ (Andrew Whitworth) made sufficient impact for me to note it down, along with the term info-whelmed (see youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECAVxbfsfc) as I think we really need to give our learners the heads-up on this.  This takes me back (yet again) to Rheingold’s literacies. This […]

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