It’s not always easy to engage a large audience interactively in a learning session. Yet we know that active learning and engagement improves understanding, prompts reflection, provides feedback so that the tutor can tune the content of the session, and has many other positive effects on learning. Asking questions however,
It’s amazing how much continuing professional development you can do for free. The web has always been a great place for sharing knowledge and expertise, and there are new ways to do this appearing all the time. It’s almost always the case that someone will have written a blog post
Tuesday 21st October 11 am – noon BST. Seminar title: Mobile technologies for education in development contexts – challenging the obvious, with John Traxler, Reader in Mobile Technology for e-Learning (School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton). In the seminar John will talk about his work on mobile learning
Yesterday I posted on the Reach Further blog for Blog Action Day on how Online communities bring the world together to share I talked about ELKS, the community of expertise for the UN-GAID run by BDRA at the University of Leicester – a network for e-learning practitioners and researchers to
Having just been interviewed about mobile learning for the new WolF project, I thought I’d jot down some of my thoughts! Good examples of mobile learning: There are several good examples of podcasting in the IMPALA project Students doing work-based learning and work placements benefit from mobile learning in a
The session on mobile learning by Dr Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Dr John Cook, Professor Tom Boyle, Mr John Traxler was very interesting. Agnes and her colleagues were good presenters. I did, however, find my personal devil’s advocate surfacing. So much of mobile learning seems to be about the devices, and it