This is now Week 4 of the Learning Challenge (LC) and I’ve been a little naughty in that I have allowed the “Learner Analysis” assignment to interfere with the LC. The “Learner Analysis” assignment is due to be submitted on Sunday 26th October and I have probably spent more than is actually necessary on it. […]
It’s Week 1 of the Learning Challenge (LC) and I have set aside 30 minutes to practice the art of knotcraft. The first website I went to was “Knots: How to Tie Knots“; I was not impressed with the rather short but pedestrian instructions with the naff looking illustrations – if I was having trouble […]
Here we are again, a new term and a term module, this time it’s “Understanding Learning in the Online Environment” led by the incomparable Hamish Macleod. This is my third module to date and its looking good. My only concern is that 10% of the course assessment is based upon me writing something worthwhile on […]
It was going to be my intention to keep a semi-regular-ish posts on my engagement with the “Effective Course Design for e-Learning” module. As you can see – this didn’t happen! The first week introduced us to some of the current theories around styles of course design (Toohey, 1999) and how some of them might […]
For my second module, I’ve chosen to undertake “Effective Course Design in e-Learning“. As a full-time learning technologist, an apsect of my job is to ensure that our staff are using the VLE (Blackboard in our case) as appropriately, effectively and efficiently as possible. We are not talking about using a VLE to replace traditonal […]
Wow, kudos to Jen Ross for getting my EduSpaces blog entries into the Holyrood Park / Elgg site so quickly and relatively painlessly. Perhaps I should start a “Give Jen a Pay Rise” community group on here Update Jen informs me that she can’t take all the credit for the smooth transition from EduSpaces. A […]