Week12: A4: Reading Richardson (2009)

Reading: Richardson (2009), ‘Face-to-face (F2F) versus online tutoring support in humanities courses in distance education’ Points from paper Alexander (2001) identified 3 factors determining the quality of the student’s experience: Communication & support Time ICT literacy pg 70 – the importance of appropriate learning design rather then the use of ICT. pg 74 – Student […]

Week 12 – my thoughts …

After being absent this week, I now can see an interesting shift in our collaboration in this course. The posts in the forum have significantly diminished, were the quality comments/ note-keeping have shifted on our blogs (Due to my absence, mine will be somewhat sketchy. I hope this week will not reflect badly on my […]

Week 11 – A3: Quality and elearning

A3a: ICT and test performance “Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort” In the US, The No Child Left Behind Act called for a study on the impact of technology on student academic achievement. Findings; 1. Test Scores Were Not Significantly Higher in Classrooms Using Selected Reading and Mathematics […]

Week 11 – A1: A ‘classic’ debate

1 A, B -Jotting down some thoughts & Opening remarks Daniel argues that in education there is the need of higher volume, consistent quality, lower cost. This three fold quest is rarely achievable (mentions the example of open universities). “Most attempts to introduce media into education do not take advantage of technology’s strengths.” He acknowledges […]

Week 10 – A7: Exploring OERs

3 OER initiatives were explored in this activity; MIT Open Courseware (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Open Learning Initiative (OLI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) OpenLearn (The Open University, UK) 1. MIT Open Courseware – A large number of courses are available here with each course a Syllabus, Calendar, Lecture Notes, Assignments, Exams, Study Materials. * […]

Week 10 – A5: Blogs and blogging

‘Blogging’ a contraction of the term web logging In this activity the floowing paper has been read; Kerawalla, Lucinda, Minocha, Shailey, Kirkup, Gill and Conole, Gráinne(2008)’Characterising the different blogging behaviours of students on an online distance learning course’,Learning, Media and Technology,33:1,21 — 33 “…determine the issues that are important to these bloggers, and we describe […]

Week 10 – A2: An alternative to Wikipedia?

1. What do their different editorial policies imply about differing approaches to authority and to the role of the ‘expert’? What are the most important differences between Citizendium and Wikipedia in terms of their editorial policies? In Wikipedia any anonymous user can edit the content. Citizendium differentiates between authors and editors. Authors can still remain […]

Week 10 – A1 – Have you edited Wikipedia?

Baker’s How I fell in love with Wikipedia. 1. Is there anything new for you in the article? Does it make you more or less likely to consult Wikipedia, or does it make no difference? It was interesting reading about the behind the scenes of Wikipedia i.e. how posts are created, edited and deleted. Also […]

Week 8 9 – A10 – Exploring learning design tools

The emphasis here is to give you some exposure to using these tools. We want you to concentrate not on the user interface or structure of the tools per se but to think about how they are guiding the design process and to what extent they are useful. Phoebe – pedagogy planner http://phoebe-app.conted.ox.ac.uk/ London Pedagogic […]

Week 8 9 – A7 – A learning-centred view

In this activity a learning design different from the previous two has been analysed. This Hybrid Learning Model (HLM) developed in Belgium by LabSET is learning-centred view. This contrast with the other activities which dealt with a teaching-centred approach. site of project: http://cetl.ulster.ac.uk/elearning/hlm.php This model takes into consideration both learner and teacher roles thus is […]