Tag: Reflection

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Siemens Learning Development Cycle #ocTEL 7.1

I planned to write a post comparing Siemens’ approach (learning development cycle) with the Salmon model discussed earlier this week. But I must admit I didn’t get that much from the Siemens’ paper. I’m worried that I’m not understanding it right, but it didn’t seem to be saying very much …

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Siemens Learning Development Cycle #ocTEL 7.1

I planned to write a post comparing Siemens’ approach (learning development cycle) with the Salmon model discussed earlier this week. But I must admit I didn’t get that much from the Siemens’ paper. I’m worried that I’m not understanding it right, but it didn’t seem to be saying very much about learner support. Hopefully someone […]

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Learning support #ocTEL week 7

Hoping to complete all of the ocTEL activities this week, as the topic – supporting learners online – is one of the most important for me. First thing – initial reflection on learning support… ocTEL Experience We’re asked to talk about positive and negative instances of learner support that we’ve …

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Learning support #ocTEL week 7

Hoping to complete all of the ocTEL activities this week, as the topic – supporting learners online – is one of the most important for me. First thing – initial reflection on learning support… ocTEL Experience We’re asked to talk about positive and negative instances of learner support that we’ve received during ocTEL so far. […]

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Drivers and constraints #ocTEL 5.1

How do course dimensions drive and influence our use of technology? Hill et. al.(1) provide a model of the different factors at play here, identifying four key areas: Logistical: student numbers, class/programme duration etc. Practice-based: activity type, participant expertise, existing practice etc. Pedagogical purpose: pedagogical plan and guidance to instructor …

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What is learning? #ocTEL week 3

‘Think about the last time you learnt something’ is the starting prompt for this activity. I’m finding this itself a surprisingly difficult task. Not because I can’t remember learning anything recently, but because once I started to think about it I (a) found it difficult to isolate a single piece …

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my practice #ocTEL Activity 1.2

My Approach Reflect on where your learning activities lie on a matrix of ‘individual to social’ and ‘autonomous to directed’ learning. Having plotted the teaching activity from our online masters, there’s stuff in three of the quadrants, but nothing in social & autonomous. My initial reaction to this is that …

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constructivism and communities of practice #ocTEL activity 1.1

Not getting on so well with the activities this week, at least with completing the tasks. I’ve found watching the videos and reading the resources really interesting, but have struggled to get round to producing anything from it. But then I read the following about Constructionism on the Moodle Philosophy …

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#ocTEL introduction and ‘big question’

So ocTEL starts today and I already feel that I could get lost in it (in a good way). Starting as I mean to go on here is my introduction and ‘big question’ for the first of the induction activities: Introduction My main experience with TEL so far is as …

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