First learn…
Apparently there is a quote in the Talmud that goes: First learn, then teach. I would go further: First learn, then teach, then carry on learning!
Category Archives: learning and teaching
NOOCing Nottingham – my presentation from the ALT-C conference
Nottingham’s NOOC was an online course on Perspectives on Sustainability open to all staff and students at all three campuses of the University of Nottingham. Here’s the presentation from my talk about it at the Association for Learning Technology conference this week (sorry it’s a bit late!). Click into post for NOOCing Nottingham PDF
Theories of learning – the ultimate in personalisation
News reached me today of an interesting new model of learning design from the Applied Pedagogic Research Institute of Learning – an international consortium of researchers and practitioners from Finland, Oman, Okayama and Luxembourg – which promises to ‘promote individual attainment through authentic learning practice via user-driven acquisition of learning
Prototyping Moving on with Moodle (an advanced Moodle course for staff)
Prototyping Moving on with Moodle (an advanced Moodle course for staff) I don’t tend to create course materials that require a lot of programming – the aim of our whole team at my institution has been to create tools to make the production of materials as easy as a prototype
OLDSMOOC Week 4
I’ve managed to get a bit behind on this week’s activities – or at least on posting them. I have been deep in the detail of a couple of courses – trying to “mould those ideas into quite explicit descriptions of what you and the learners will be doing, hour
OLDSMOOC Wk3 Imagining the design
So here are the results of my design exercise for my own project – a MOOC (I’m focusing on assessment in a MOOC, but obviously at this stage the visualisations are of the assessment in the context of the whole course!) Course Feature Cards Activity profile – Predict A MOOC
OLDSMOOC wk3
As a member of the team that developed the first Carpe Diem workshops at Leicester, I’m delighted to see how it has been further developed – the 7Cs of Learning Design idea and the very practical format of the process (always a feature of Carpe Diem) is really exciting and
OLDSMOOC – End of week 2
At the beginning of the week I had my aims and objectives and I think I have (just about) met them. Get back on track and catch up – well more or less! Decide whether scenarios are for me – well, with personas, quite possibly. I do like to spend
Turnitin: Top Misconceptions
Misconception 1: Turnitin compares a paper against everything ever written . . . web pages, books, publications, unpublished works, etc . . . Reality: There are sources that are not in Turnitin–especially if that material is only available in print, or is in a very specialist journal. However Turnitin state that
#oldsmooc Dreambazaar – proposed project
Helen Whitehead: New approaches to e-assessment Tags: #oldsmooc, e-assessment, assessment, Rogo, multiple choice quizzes, avaluatong, assessing MOOCs, MOOC Training courses already held on e-assessment – very much about how to use the technology. Would like to support development of associated resources that can be used in face to face or