Connectivism: Theory or Phenomenon?
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Pedagogy, Technology
Preface Back in March 2013, I signed up to do the “Open Education“ MOOC from The Open University on the OpenLearn platform. Also in March, I started my Doctorate in Education (EdD) at Canterbury Christ Church University, so the “Open Education” course took a back seat. The EdD is made up of seven modules at Master’s level, on the successful completion of these [...]
Tags: connectivism, downes, EdD, h817open, learning theory, siemens, theory
Big OER, Little OER #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Technology
In Martin Weller’s 2012 paper, he explores the nature of open education resources (OERs) and suggests that there currently exists two “flavours” of OERs. The first he calls “big OERs” which are the “large-scale, externally funded projects”, like MIT’s OpenCourseWare and the Open University’s OpenLearn (ibid, p. 7), who have developed large repositories containing a [...]
Tags: big oer, h817open, learning objects, little oer, mooc, oer, open education, open educational resource, open university, openlearn, week 3
The Three Challenges for Open Educational Resources #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Technology, Virtual Spaces
The term Open Educational Resources (OERs) was first introduced at a conference hosted by UNESCO in 2000, which broadly defined it as: The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes (UNESCO, 2002:24). However, since then others have attempted to [...]
Tags: h817open, learning objects, mooc, oer, open education, open educational resource, open university, openlearn, week 2
Unlocking the Potential #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Technology
The above visual representation of “openness in education” depicts the types of “open” formats, that currently exist, such as “open education“, “open source“, “open access publishing“, etc. and lists those characteristics that are seen to exemplify the “open movement“. Finally, the image itself resembles a key that is able to open, or unlock, these potentials. [...]
Tags: h817open, key, mooc, open education, open university, openlearn, openness, unlock, week 1
Learning, spaces and technology: exploring the concept
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning Spaces, Pedagogy, Technology
The “Learning, spaces and technology: exploring the concept“ is a publication aimed at anyone who has, or may be, engaged in creating, managing or supporting a large-scale learning space. It is not simply an account of the jointly funded JISC/CCCU iBorrow Project or the Augustine House Programme at Canterbury Christ Church University. Rather, it draws on our experience within the project [...]
Tags: learning spaces, pedagogy, planning, policy, technology
Much Ado About Twitter
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Software, Teaching, Technology, Virtual Spaces
Twitter is an example of a microblogging service, the above video, Twitter in Plain English by the excellent Common Craft, gives a succinct overview of its features and functionality. Other microblogging services like Yammer, Identi.ca and Jaiku have been around too, but have not garnered the high-profile “celebrity status” that their most illustrious competitor has [...]
Tags: Higher Education, learning, microblogging, social media, Social Networking, students, teaching, Twitter, Web 2.0
Towards aligning pedagogy, space and technology
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Learning Spaces, Mobile Learning, Pedagogy, Spaces, Technology
As part of my MSc dissertation, entitled “Towards aligning pedagogy, space and technology inside a large-scale learning environment“, I did some research on how academic staff and students used the “learning spaces” and the mobile technologies with Canterbury Christ Church University‘s new library and student services centre called Augustine House. I have accumulated a lot [...]
Tags: alignment, Augustine House, cccu, elusive triangle, iborrow, learning spaces, library, mobile technology, pedagogy, space, technology, troublesome space
Ponderings on Space, Learning, Technology and Choice
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Innovation, Learning, Mobile Learning, Project, Research, Technology
We have been given a couple of research papers for critically evaluation. One of them is by Dunleavy et al (2007) which looks at the “value addedness” of the one child per laptop (OLPC) project. What struck me here is that there are similarities between the OLPC initiaive and that of our partly JISC funded [...]
Tags: choice, iborrow, institutional innovation programme, jisc, mobile technology, one laptop per child, project, questions, research methods, rmel2010
Design Personas and UCD
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Innovation, Learning, Project, Research, Technology
My University is involved in phase two of JISC‘s Institutional Innovation Programme: This programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven practices, technologies, standards and services. The solutions will act as exemplars to other institutions by demonstrating innovation and good practice, and building [...]
Tags: academic social networking, caret, design persona, flow interactive, institutional innovation programme, jisc, project, research methods, rmel2010, ucd, user-centric design
Mapping the Learning Space
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Innovation, Learning, Learning Spaces, Mobile Learning, Project, Research, Technology
So here we are at last, the sixth and final module that is “research methods”. I know that I would like to do my dissertation on learning spaces as my institution has just opened it’s doors to a new Library and Student Services centre called Augustine House. If you want a feel for the place, [...]
Tags: Augustine House, e-learning, iborrow, learning spaces, mind map, research methods, rmel2010
