Learning Innovations http://sclater.com/blog Latest developments in online education Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:42:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Latest developments in online education Niall Sclater elearning,e-learning,learning technology,higher education,learning innovations no Niall Sclater n.l.sclater@open.ac.uk Large Scale Educational Podcasting http://sclater.com/blog/?p=152 http://sclater.com/blog/?p=152#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:16:29 +0000 niall http://sclater.com/blog/?p=152 Mike RichardsIn the first of a series of podcasts about learning innovations, I interview Mike Richards, course chair of a new OU course planned for Autumn 2010: “My Digital Life”. This innovative course teaches programming principles without students having to type in any code – instead they use a drag and drop environment developed at MIT called Scratch. Also every student is supplied with a hardware toolkit containing a microphone, light meter, temperature sensor and motion detector.

Podcasting seems a bit old-fashioned in comparison with these innovations but what caught my attention about this course was the fact that 40-50 podcasts are being recorded from around the World to form part of the course content.

Mike Richards on Large Scale Educational Podcasting [13:32]

]]> http://sclater.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=152 0 In the first of a series of podcasts about learning innovations, I interview Mike Richards, course chair of a new OU course planned for Autumn 2010: “My Digital Life”. This innovative course teaches programming principles without students having to type in any code – instead they use a drag and drop environment developed at MIT called Scratch. Also every student is supplied with a hardware toolkit containing a microphone, light meter, temperature sensor and motion detector. Podcasting seems a bit old-fashioned in comparison with these innovations but what caught my attention about this course was the fact that 40-50 podcasts are being recorded from around the World to form part of the course content. Mike Richards on Large Scale Educational Podcasting [13:32] In the first of a series of podcasts about learning innovations, I interview Mike Richards, course chair of a new OU course planned for Autumn 2010: “My Digital Life”. This innovative course teaches programming principles without [...] Niall Sclater 13:32 e-learning,elearning,podcasting,Open University no