There’s been an interesting discussion over at the ELESIG community (ELESIG is the HEA Special Interest Group for researchers into the learner experience of elearning),about “What was your first experience of computer technology?” and how it affected people’s subsequent ventures into using computers for work and learning. I’ve been interested
5 weeks – online – in Moodle Starts 4th June 2008contact helen AT reachfurther.com I am running an eModerating and Online Tutoring course in partnership with Park Lane College in Leeds. This is an introductory course for those starting to or planning to teach online in HE, FE or even
I have been very suspicious of HTML-based email for some time: sending an HTML-based email is a bit hit and miss – I have seen so many rendered as just a pile of code and quite unintelligible to the reader. Nobody – especially not when you’re putting out an important
If you are setting up a new blog, probably the next important task after choosing your blog niche is to the job of choosing a name for your blog. One of the first questions is whether to have a quirky name that no-one has already got, so that you can
A post from 2006 in Learning Alliances defines the concept of “technology stewardship” “Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs. Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology,
I’ve been really busy, lately. Reach Further have moved offices. We can now be found at Reach Further Ltd.Round Foundry Media CentreFoundry StreetLeedsLS11 5QP I’ve also revamped the website and finally set up a decent WordPress blog. I’m liking WordPress, and it’s maybe time I moved this blog over to
As it’s something I do a lot, I thought I might try to put together my own model for case studies of elearning implementation. The logical place to start would seem to be that the case study of an elearning initiative should follow the same structure as the development of
There are all sorts of reasons why one wants to analyse an online community – finding out who are the busiest and most informative posters is one possible requirement. I just spotted an old article from New Scientist (well, July 2007) that describes how researchers at Cornell University, New York,
The project eXe has been brought to my attention. A New Zealand-based open source authoring application, it aims to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content
CourseLab CourseLab, is a free authoring tool, with lots of great features – very usable and professional. It offers a WYSIWYG environment for creating interactive e-learning content. FeedBlitz enables you to provide blog posts in a newsletter format – it’s a way to give blog readers the option to read