I've worked on the JISC Innovating E-Learning Conference for several years now and we've been adjusting the format to respond to changing technologies and expectations of delegates. This year there are quite a few changes... The conference will be run in an instance of Moodle managed by the Netskills Team. It seems well suited to [...]
Students as digital partners and pioneers I wrote last week about a session at the JISC innovating eLearning online conference 2012 on open practices. This will be the seventh JISC online Innovating eLearning conference entitled Shaping the Future which takes place from 13th – 23rd November 2012. Another great session we have planned is looking at the [...]
We are now working on the seventh JISC online Innovating eLearning conference entitled Shaping the Future which takes place from 13th – 23rd November 2012. We have the usual array of excellent keynote speakers which we hope will challenge and stimulate our delegates. (with keynotes by Sue Black, James Clay and Ian Gilbert) One of the sessions [...]
I have recently been working with Myscience - the UK’s leading organisation for supporting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education professionals. They have just released an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for a study to review and develop a revised Online Strategy for Myscience education. The work will be for three months between mid October [...]
On Wednesday 11th July 2012 at 12noon I will be contributing to a JISC webinar What is a mooc along with David Kernohan, Martin Weller, Dave White and Jonathan Worth. My brief is to talk a little about the learner perspective based on my own experiences with a few MOOCs (massive open online course). I [...]
I have recently completed a series of articles for the JISC CETIS other voices blog which offered a reflective account of three areas of work - Learning Environments, Exchanging Course Information (XCRI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). Developments in each area have been significant for the UK Higher and Further education sector and after speaking [...]
This video was made as an alternative to powerpoint slides to support a conversation between myself and Frances Bell at the JISC Innovating e-Learning Conference. We held a session in Elluminate on Friday 18th November and had a great conversation with the audience. I have made a text version of the audio 0 available as [...]
Whilst listening to the change11 mooc broadcast on dltv today I was also making some art dammit for ds106. I was listening to Stephen Downes talking about the fact that when conversations happen between people who are 'well' connected -others are left out. I thought it was very interesting that Stephen seemed to feel disconnected [...]
Yesterday during Allison Littlejohn’s talk for change11, I mentioned something I have been thinking about as a result of conversations with Allison about collective learning, openness and literacy. I’d like to outline the thinking behind my question in this blogpost. Background Allison talks in her learning ecosystems post about the relationship between OERs, literacies and [...]
From OERs to Open Practice In a recent post about my OER work I talk about a move from focussing on open educational resources to open practice. This situates OERs within open practice - as one aspect of it. So for me OERs are resources used to support learning in either a formal or informal [...]
I have been watching the change11 mooc, but so far not had much opportunity to engage. This week I will be supporting Professor Allison Littlejohn with her week on Collective Learning. Allison will be sharing a range of supporting documents and information and we will have a live session at 5pm GMT on Tuesday 4th. [...]
This is not new but I realise I haven't shared it on my blog. It is a summary prezi about the benefits of sharing learning resources but could be equally be called the benefits of OER. alot of people keep asking what the benefits of OER are.The report and this prezi highlight the benefits for [...]
