I was musing on some eportfolio features: An eportfolio should sit between one’s personal space/personal learning space and the institutional learning space (eg VLE) Possible uses of eportfolios assessment application for certification job application personnel record continuing professional development career management Some desirable features: A good app for creating an
Assessment is a key driver of student learning and at the heart of the student experience. From the student point of view, assessment defines the curriculum. Assessment can be an important route into engaging students in new ways of learning. At the online Learning Futures Festival in November from the
ELESIG – the Special Interest Group for those interested in Evaluating the Learner Experience of E-Learning – invites academics to a seminar on Impact of learner experience research – digital literacies. It’s on Thursday, 20th November 2008 at the Evolution Suite, Longbridge Technology Park, 1 Devon Way Birmingham B31 2TS.
Online conferences are BIG these days. Some organisations have been running virtual conferences for a while and others are just starting out, or experimenting with an online element to a face-to-face conference. Technology has moved on a lot and there are a variety of options for online conferences and webinars,
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
At Reach Further it’s one of our fundamental beliefs that bringing people together helps solve problems. Our vision is “bringing people together online, to share, to work and to learn”. Whether you call it social media, social networking, Web 2.0, online communities, the blogosphere, ebusiness or any of the other
The presentation we gave last month at the ALT-C conference in Leeds is now online: If you build it will they come? A model for sustainable online community networks for practitioners Helen Whitehead, Liz Cable Reach Further Ltd., United Kingdom Thursday 11th September 2008, University of Leeds Community model powerpoint
A new e-moderating course for practising teachers and tutors in FE starts today and another (for academic staff in HE) is into its second week starting tomorrow. In both cases it is about experiencing e-learning as a student as well as developing practical skills for online teachers. I am always
Whether you’re trying to create a learning community for the students starting your course or trying to nurture a community of practice for your business or organisation, one of the key elements of your strategy should be welcoming your participants. Every e-moderator should have welcoming techniques in their e-moderating toolbox.
Central ITV news filmed me in a mini workshop at a school in Nottingham. Yesterday the story ran on prime time local news about the search by a group of young French artists to find the artist who drew Fat Gourg in our Kids on the Net project, Monster Motel.