Week 6 – list of challenging activities

Activity task: list of challenging activities Drawing on your own experience and your study of this course so far, write a list of activities that might be expected of a student on a course that has online and distance components. communicate/work with colleagues/tutor via email forum blog video conferencing chat wiki Write TMA through word […]

TMA 01 – reflection

This assignment took me much more then anticipated to finish it. Still I’m not sure if I have answered correctly the question as it could have been interpreted in various ways. For this assignment I’ve used for the first time a mind map. It reappy helped me extract useful information from the case studies and […]

Week 3 – Will a potential innovation ‘fly’

This week we have gone through Rogers’ groups in adopting (or not adopting) an innovation; innovators early adopters early majority late majority laggards We have considered what the innovation’s strengths & weaknesses are by focusing on; its relative advantage Compatability Complexity Trialability Observability My mini comment: I have introduced blogging with my students to foster […]

Case studies of elearning innovation 4

Case study: The Learning Lab staff development initiative Area: Technology-enhanced LEarning Environments Institution: Swansea University Link: Swansea University, The Learning Lab staff development initiative Author: Chris Hall Background & context Learning lab was developed through an idea of providing a ‘space with useful resources about elearning for all staff’ where anyone in the community has […]

Week 2, what a week !

I’ve been feeling a bit lost this week. Compared to H800, H807 is not structured. This week we have 3 activities which could have been easily named A1, A2a and A2b as in H800. At the same time the last two activities seem to overlap to week 3 but am not sure on how much […]

Case studies of elearning innovation 3

Case study: Moving from OMR to CBA Area: e-assessment Institution: The University of Nottingham Author: Simon Wilkinson Link: The University of Nottingham, Moving from Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) to Computer Based Assessment (CBA) for summative exams in medicine Background & context This case study focuses on the shift from OMR to CBA. This change was […]

Case studies of elearning innovation 2

Case study: Use of WebCT in a blended approach to developing multimedia Area: Technology enhanced learning environments Institution: Leeds Metropolitan University Author: Stuart Hirst Link: Leeds Metropolitan University, Use of WebCT in a blended approach to developing multimedia design skills At first, I’ve struggled to find exactly what exactly is the innovation in this case […]

Case studies of elearning innovation 1

This week we need to pick and review 4 case studies. My first choice is a case study on simulated gaming. I’ve made this choice as whilst that I heard from time to time about this idea of learning through gaming (is this what simulated gaming is?!), I do not have any experience in this […]

Week 2 – Concepts & themes associated with elearning

This is how I placed the concepts given for this activity. Each concept has been placed according to the definitions collated below and my own experience in using/not using them. To what extent should we think of elearning as a distinct discipline with a need for its own concepts and vocabulary? Rather then being distinct, […]

Week 1 – rumbling

Week 1 is almost over, it proved to be a very interesting week, back on the desk, reading, commenting in the moodle forum and blogging. Once again I’m trying to fit in studying with all the other pieces of my life, hopefully I’ll find a good routine as for H800. For this course, it is […]