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
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
11:22 Installed another blog! I am a blog addict. # 18:05 I’ve written two community engagement plans today. Good jobs done I trust! # 08:49 @nrparmar hope the moodling goes well! # 08:52 What are your favourite gadgets? tinyurl.com/3tg9d3 # 11:04 Trying out a possible way to post tweets to
This is the first of a series of posts reporting on papers and happenings at the ALT-C conference held this week in Leeds. Bob Rotheram (Leeds Met) reported on the Sounds Good pilot about giving audio feedback to students, both formative and summative feedback on coursework. The technology involved direct-to-mp3
I really should be blogging about the ALT-C conference… I’ll be attending the fourth (but my first) ALT-C Edublogger meetup next week, taking place at Leeds Student Union Mine Bar, Tuesday 9th September, 19.30 onwards. Apparently: ” We may be moving on somewhere else but we’ll stay at the Mine
Quotations can be puzzling, irrelevant and downright incomprehensible, and sometimes I wonder why I bother to read them – but on my iGoogle page I have “Quotes of the Day”. I find that random quotes are at least as relevant to my life as any horoscope would be! Sometimes, even,
For an elearning course led by a tutor to be effective, the tutor presence is one of the most important elements. Showing good e-moderating practice the tutor must: login regularly model good online behaviour be seen to be present post encouraging messages for students respond to student queries as quickly