One of the steps to facilitating deeper learning is to get your group of learners to “gel”. Icebreakers and group work can help to get students working together and supporting each others’ learning. This needs to happen in the online environment as much as in the classroom and is one
Our project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury. In one of those strange but heartwarming Internet stories, a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by a seven-year-old, Luke, during a writing workshop at a Leicestershire Primary School led by Reach Further’s Helen Whitehead in 1999 has become something
Our academic colleagues, clients and partners might be interested in the webinar we are running tomorrow, Friday 27th June, in the ELESIG community. ELESIG (the Higher Education Academy’s Special Interest Group for the Learners’ Experience of Elearning) is a community for researchers and practitioners who are looking at evaluating the
Stephanie Booth recently posted an argument against threaded conversations on blogs. I have to say that I disagree to a large extent with what she says as well as the people she quotes, although I don’t deny some of her points. I believe that there is a very good case
Is the motivation of online learners changing as the web itself – and the techniques and technologies available to educators – evolves? I was writing about motivation of online learners for the eModerating and Online Tutoring course I’m tutoring next week. I’ve been teaching this unit for a few years
Last Thursday ELESIG – the Special Interest Group for Research into the Learner Experience – held a webinar focusing on research methodology for evaluating the learner’s experience of elearning. As community lead for the project (one of my roles for Reach Further) it is great to be able to report
The youngest ever patent holder is reported today on the BBC website. Sam Houghton, of Buxton, Derbyshire, was just three when he watched his Dad sweeping up debris in the garden and using two brooms. Sam then came up with a double-headed broom to collect large debris and fine dust
I will be attending the NLab Social Networks Conference in June. The conference aims to explore the benefits of social networks for business http://www.nlabnetworks.com/ Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2008 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK * What is a social network and how can it generate wealth for your
Teaching and Learning resources from QIA: includes material from the teaching and learning subject packs. http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/ Intute.ac.uk is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. Results of search for “Motor Engineering” New Engineering Foundation http://www.neweng.org.uk/resources.asp?id=9 http://failte.ac.uk/FAILTE aims to provide
Following the publication of Dr Tanya Byron’s report Safer Children in a Digital World for Ofcom, much is being said in the news media about the dangers for children online. Parents are being frightened into believing the only safe solution is to sit beside their child whilst they are online,