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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING FEBRUARY 9, 2012  Teaching without powerpoint - Using a website creation tool There is some but mostly the help and advice I provide is done informally in one-to-one meetings. There's lots to reflect on when you teach. Rarely do we get a chance or have the inclination to do this fully. For my role as a Learning Technologist in a Higher Education institution (Institute of Education, London, UK), I don't do a massive amount of teaching. Overall, the system worked well. | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING DECEMBER 5, 2011  Choosing social media/web 2.0 tools for use in teaching and learning Providing a three minute screencast can go a long way. It might be as simple as providing a weblink with words around it. What’s important here is to think through what process/navigational support you need to provide. Originally published on ETC Journal. Connecting formal education to social media/web 2.0 tools is a relatively new area. This will give you a starting point. | | | | | |
| LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING MAY 18, 2012  Tablets: Finally a technology for the classroom Ipad provide this. I wanted to blog again as it's been a while. Amongst all the different facets of my work recently, the area that is most stimulating my thinking is ipads and the potential of tablets in formal education. feel strongly that tablets have the potential to have really positive impact on our formal education in the classroom. Rightly or wrongly, this is our reality. | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 The practice of a learning technologist Therefore, a learning technologist should identify opportunities and, where possible, take opportunities to provide this type of support. By having this awareness, learning technologists can tailor their support to provide the maximum positive influence on the online learning design. By having this awareness, learning technologists can tailor their support to provide the maximum positive influence on the online learning design. I recently undertook a study to help me go my job better. was about the practice of learning technologists. | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING FEBRUARY 15, 2012 Backchannels in the classroom So, you could sum up by saying backchannels: - Engage students who otherwise might not contribute - Evens the playing field for involvement - Can't be dominated by the loudest voice - Allow students to ask questions on the fly without interrupting - Allow teachers to see and answer questions quickly - Give teacher feedback on the level of understanding or confusion in the class - Provides a record of the dialogue for future reference - Demands engagement with the material to participate An important point which should not be overlooked is the development of writing skills. | LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING APRIL 8, 2011 Presentation on "Structuring an online course" and some prezi reflections So the prezi provided has the following sections: Before designing section - Basically, what I'm concerned with here is ensuring that you know why you are designing a purely online or blended learning course. Last week I taught a session (with a couple of colleagues) called Structuring an online course: guidance and example. Here I wanted to share my contribution to this session: a prezi presentation and talk about it. The hard part of this is knowing what to leave out. The point is that many academics need help with the basics. Basics that aren't well defined or universally agreed. | | | | | | | |
| - Public/Private sector e-learning: the differences
However, I'm sure some would make do with just providing content if they could. There are different types of e-learning courses. going to draw a divide between public and private sector courses purely to help my thinking. The divide is, of course, not that simple but it's a useful starting point for this post. Appearance is the most obvious difference and this is down to money. The content of the private sector world is dynamically displayed, well designed and often involves bespoke video. It's mostly about absorbing the content. It's more about web design than learning design. MORE >> - "Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!" - Tapscott D and Williams A, D (2010) Review
If all that the large research universities have to offer to students are lectures that students can get online for free, from other professors, why should those students pay the tuition fees, especially if third-party testers will provide certificates, diplomas, and even degrees? Originally published on the Educational Technology and Change Journal I've read and re-read Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! by Tapscott D and Williams A, D (2010) published within Educause to try and absorb it's key messages. Universities are one example. This is the first stage. ABSOLUTELY! MORE >> - Using ipads in teaching and learning - an introduction
For each, I did a quick demo and then they played using the ipads I provided. Yesterday I ran my first session promoting tablets in education. It was to students and staff in my institution and only 40 minutes. decide I didn't have time for any substantial presentation and focused on a structure of showing/playing with a few apps. haven't quite settled on how I want to articulate and differentiate different types of apps yet. I've found plenty of other's categorisations but I want to do my own. These will no doubt come to light as I continue learning. The session worked well. Tablets MORE >> - Didactic Teachers are expendable
Hopefully, this can cause some realisation that we need to provide more than just the facts, delivered in broadcast fashion. The title of this post doesn't really tell the whole story, but I'm hooked on trying to have catchy, short titles (maybe twitter is effecting me too much). After reading Free Online Higher Education Courses? I reflected on the whole principle of OER. In the posting, Robert Hughes argues that watching a lecture isn't as good as taking the course (in a critique of another article ). This is true where the course is well run. No, it would be better. don't want this. MORE >> -
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009 A Learning Technologist in 2009 in Higher Education
Instead, instructors should be encouraged to examine their pedagogy as they begin to teach online, and be provided with extensive technical support as they develop courses based on their chosen pedagogy. I've just read an interesting post which has helped move my thinking on a bit. It's " Training" faculty to teach online by Lisa Lane and is about the nature of the usual offerings of "training" on teaching online. She says: The misconceptions about the validity of online teaching are only encouraged by using the word “training”. Neither of these is true. There's lots of good points here. MORE >>
- Using iPads in Education Setting - creating this workshop LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013
- Have belief in Learning Technologies LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009
- Designing and Teaching an Online Course LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011
- Personal Cyberinfrastructure LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009
- Teaching with technology isn't easy to arrange LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
- Web 2.0 Definition LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009
- Educate the educators! - Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World - JISC report - Initial thoughts LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING | FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2009
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