Here are five of the benefits of blended learning with an example of how they might be applied in a course to train staff with advanced Moodle roles: flexibility: access at desk or on mobile devices, at any time that suits the learner. Staff working with Moodle may be academics
This November starts several new initiatives for me. Sustainability, Society and You The Sustainability, Society and You MOOC #freeonlinecourse on FutureLearn started yesterday. Six weeks of learning and sharing about sustainable lifestyles, individual, group, neighbourhood, national and global level. I’ve supported this MOOC, for lead educator Prof Sarah Speight, since
On Tuesday in #fos4l we were asked about a scenario involving a floundering online learner. The scenario resonated a lot with me (even as a student on #FOS4L!). I have thought quite extensively about the isolation of the online learner, both in the past and more recently when planning MOOCs
I took part in the Twitter chat today under the hashtag #foschat. My question was on how to deal with overwhelm. I consider myself pretty digitally literate. I have run a social media company: I have blogged and tweeted for a living. I have blogged since before the word became
Key messages, you’d think, would be carefully thought out before they go into public view. Driving into work one recent morning I was following a van that proclaimed proudly “Fast Response Services”. Laudable, I thought, are these services anything I might want, like plumbing or boilers or cars? But nowhere
I was struggling to write multiple choice questions for a course until I reminded myself of the key rules for writing these tests. #1 Keep the answers as short as possible If the question needs a lot of text put most of it in the question introduction or stem. This
I gave a talk at the MELSIG event ‘Creative Lecture Capture, Webinars & Screencasting’ about webinars. The event took place on 20th January 2015. Event page: http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/?page_id=715
In order to succeed, companies’ strategies for sustainability need to be informed by their context, aware of internal and external factors, and able to adapt with these in mind. A commonly used technique in developing strategy is SWOT analysis, based upon an assessment of ‘Strengths, ‘Weaknesses’, ‘Opportunities’ and ‘Threats’. These
Waste audits can be useful in helping you to consciously think about what you are producing/disposing and why? Do you know where your waste goes? Are you aware of the energy and water required to create the products you are using and then throwing away? In the Sustainability, Society and
I guess I would like to know how a learning technologist like myself can most effectively support teachers and students to use TEL. How to help ‘more learners do more learning and learn more’ with technology. And with the idea that technology should be easy to use and just one