A little while ago I went to a presentation by Martin Williams, Director of HE Strategy at the DIUS. He spoke about the future of Universities at a time when the Government wants to continue to grow numbers in HE – to enable more potential students to benefit from HE.
I’ve just welcomed the 71st member to the new Ning community for ELESIG. It’s great to see so many elearning researchers and practitioners who have an interest in the learner experience. The take up for the community and for the inaugural workshop – was it only last week? – has
I will be giving a seminar at the Education Show in Birmingham on Saturday 1st March 2008. It’s about our 10-year-old project for young writers and their parents, teachers and librarians: Kids on the Net If you’re a teacher, educator or exhibitor, and you’re coming to the show why not
Do you use e-learning or learning technologies such as discussion forums etc. in teaching? Have you used or adapted Salmon’s 5-stage model or e-tivities framework in your teaching? Or have you used it at any time in the past few years? Gilly Salmon’s 5-stage model and e-tivities framework have been
Some interesting social software for learning: Ectohttp://www.ectolearning.com/Their blurb: “Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use Ecto to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity. Ecto is the only learning management system built from the ground up on the principles and architecture of social software.”
When the Web was new, individual researchers posted their articles, research papers, reports and other research outputs online in their own spaces: there was no systematic way to find such articles, papers and drafts. The copyright restrictions of publication often mean that researchers no longer have the right to put
The reasons why University staff are considering e-learning in their courses tend to be as varied as the disciplines they come from and almost as varied as the individuals concerned. Some of the drivers are: from above, e.g., Department or Faculty head: “our modules should use the VLE more”; from
Circlo: A tetris shooting gamehttp://www.andkon.com/arcade/tetris/circlo/ Flow in games – strangely addictive creature gamehttp://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/ And some interesting blogs/articles about using games in learning (as if that makes it OK…) Getting It Wrong: Slaying Myths About Video Games (Part 1) Learning in Video Games (a group blog) Futurelab handbook on Games and
1 AdministrativeSyllabi, submission dates, room allocations, last-minute changes, etc.2 SupplementalMaterials to support the traditional classroom, but not critical to the course (e.g. notes, handouts, slides, reading lists, Internet links).3 EssentialStudents require regular web access to be productive members of the class. Most materials, tasks, assessments available on website. Teachers require
Problem-based learning scenarios used at the University of Leicester on an Integrated Science course include building the pyramids of Egypt (and using them for astronomy), mock court cases, film productions, and preparations for the 2012 London Olympics. These are used to teach subjects such as space science, nanotechnology, biomechanics, and