Yazan: Niall | 18 March 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Adoption, Course design, iPad, Mobile Learning, Moodle, OU VLE, Podcasts, Uncategorized
I’ve just had some interesting conversations at an event for new OU module chairs at Cranfield University after presenting on some of the possibilities of elearning for our students. One academic wondered how he could be expected to design courses for smartphones and tablets when the University was not prepared to buy him these devices [...]
Yazan: niall | 07 April 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Adoption, eAssessment, Policies
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has issued a document called Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology: A revised approach to HEFCE’s strategy for e-learning. Naturally I was interested to see what they are recommending. Various other studies are quoted which demonstrate the benefits of elearning, and there are references to [...]
Yazan: niall | 10 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption, Moodle
Dan Leighton was waxing lyrical about the benefits of elearning this morning at a Moodle event for schools near Cambridge. He finds it particularly useful for seeing when his pupils have uploaded assignments. He demonstrated a neat use of Jing to record his voice and his mouse clicks while producing feedback for students on spreadsheet [...]
Yazan: niall | 27 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption
Elearning is taking place in all universities and colleges to varying degrees. For many it is now a strategic priority but few institutions could honestly say that it is being rolled out across all courses systematically, and some have not yet even defined a common language for what elearning is. Benchmarking and accreditation processes are [...]
Yazan: niall | 18 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption
Maybe not one of Quo’s better songs… Well I’m not in the army but I did stay in an army camp last night. I was giving a talk about Moodle to various military personnel which kicked off a discussion over dinner in the Officers’ Mess about elearning. It was fascinating to compare the issues faced [...]
Yazan: niall | 11 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption
EDUCAUSE has carried out its annual survey of the undergraduate use of technology. ECAR Fellows Judy Borreson Caruso and Gail Salaway discussed their preliminary findings today at the ECAR Research Symposium in Boulder (the report will be published in October). 27,317 students from 98 US institutions took part in the survey plus a few from [...]
Yazan: niall | 16 May 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Adoption
Matt Lingard discusses the age-old mantra that pedagogy should lead the technology rather than the other way round. I think this arises from the fear among some faculty that somehow their more technical colleagues are doing all sorts of supposedly innovative things with technology which in the end of the day don’t actually help learners. [...]
Yazan: niall | 08 May 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption, Moodle
Rob Englebright reports recently on the JISCmail VLE List about an unoffical wiki-based survey of VLE usage in UK colleges. Of 156 colleges it’s now Moodle 59%, Blackboard 28%. The detailed breakdown is: Moodle 93 including 4 using moodle in combination with Sharepoint (and in one instance Moodle, Sharepoint and Pebblepad) Blackboard 43 including 2 [...]
Yazan: niall | 30 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption
Doug Clow rants about being told off three times yesterday for live blogging at the OU Conference by people who found it distracting. He was so demoralised by the experience that he’s not taking his laptop to the event today. Many years ago I asked someone who was sitting next to me at a US [...]
Yazan: niall | 05 December 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Adoption, Moodle, OU VLE
Chris Jones and Anne Jelfs recently evaluated a two-week course called Moodling for Beginners which was carried out earlier this year with 80 Associate Lecturers (tutors) from the Open University (OU). The participants were from all faculties and all OU regions and nations. All but one completed the course. There was an 81% response rate [...]