Five days after ending fslt13
When a MOOC comes to an end, the activity may go up. That happened to me on these five days 13.-18.6. I have tried to comprehend the expert participant role better and analyze the life around this...
View ArticleLearning design principles: educational pragmatists
I am trying to write a proper academic paper about the principles we used when developing FSLT12&13. But, as I do I find myself getting bogged down. So in the spirit of Digital scholarship (Weller...
View ArticleA note on badges
On FSLT13 Badges were awarded for completion of each of the four activities. Participants who wanted to collect the FSLT13 badgesl needed to register and enrol on the Moodle – AND needed to sign up...
View ArticleLearning design for open online courses – part 1
Further to my previous post, Learning design principles: educational pragmatists, which was an abstraction of our beliefs about teaching, this post is an attempt to set out some practical implications...
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New Special Issue on MOOCs published today (JOLT)
Today has seen the publication in JOLT of a paper I worked on with Marion Waite, George Roberts and Elizabeth Lovegrove from Oxford Brookes University, in which we examined learning in the First Steps...
View ArticleA note on content, courses/curricula, and credentials
This note recounts a potted recent history of developments to do with online content and courses and speculates about the future of credentials in respect of the purpose of a university. When learning...
View ArticleNew Lecturers 2013-14 Introduction Day
Fifty or sixty people attended the introduction to the New Lecturers Programme today. Biggest intake in my experience. There was a good buzz throughout the day. This year we quite significantly revised...
View ArticleMusing on simultaneous remote presence for T-Lab
We (OK, I) made a bold (OK, foolish) assertion that T-Lab meetings would be live broadcast for those who wanted to participate remotely. This could be achieved with various solutions: a Wimba Classroom...
View ArticleWhat you get? Tea Lab
What you test. You get what you inspect not what you expect. That said, tonight I tested my webcam and the podium computer in Brookes Boardroom 1 where we are hosting Tea Lab tomorrow. I was fully...
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Capturing the learner experience in ModPo and open learning environments
This is an invitation to all Modern & Contemporary American Poets MOOC (ModPo) participants, SCoPE community members, CPsquare members, ELESIG members, FSLT13 participants, POTCert participants,...
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