Category: learning design
Events – seminars and webinars
April 19th, 2012 at 06:04
With appropriate timing, having just returned from the excellent “Assessment in a Digital Age” conference, I’m told that on 11th June, the OU is hosting a one-day seminar about how assessment tools (including the Moodle quiz) can be used in a way that lets students take more control over their own learning. Tim Hunt suggests [...]
Elearning community – and webinar!
April 10th, 2012 at 02:04
This week we’re launching a new online course – Teaching with Moodle. Following on from the Key Moodle Basics Introduction to Moodle, this rolling 8-week course will explore a variety of topics relating to Moodle and provide the opportunity for staff to explore, share, and ask questions. We will be using tomorrow’s e-learning community meeting [...]
Participatory Online Learning
April 5th, 2012 at 08:04
On the 14th March 2012, the e-learning community met to explore the theme of particpaotry online learning. With all the extra tools and features available in Moodle, this was a timely look at ways to harness learner participation and social learning. Chris Gratton explored the Graduate School’s moderated participatory online courses for research postgraduates and how [...]
How to enable conditional activities in Moodle
1 March 16th, 2012 at 09:03
Moodle has a useful feature that allows a teacher (Moodle’s word for instructor or module convenor) to set up a sequence of activites such that completion of each will be tracked and final course completion can be monitored. This could be useful, for example, for a self study course or for a Lab Induction or Health and Safety [...]
Designing modules with openess in mind
1 March 15th, 2012 at 11:03
Supporting the sustainability theme within the PARiS project is a team of content creators from a variety of subject areas. These include Geography, Engineering, Business, Archaeology and the Careers service. Each content creator is recording their experiences of the design process and the benefits and barriers of finding and using third party OER within the [...]
Participatory online learning – 5 ways to welcome your learners
March 14th, 2012 at 09:03
To accompany our elearning community discussion on Participatory Online Learning, we are offering a series of related posts on creating participatory activities and creating the kind of learning environment in which these are successful. If you’re trying to encourage your students to participate in online activities as part of their course, creating the feel of [...]
Elearning community: Participatory Online Learning Wed 14th March
March 9th, 2012 at 09:03
With all the extra tools and features available in Moodle, this month’s community session is a timely look at ways to harness learner participation and social learning. Chris Gratton will talk about the Graduate School’s moderated participatory online courses for research postgraduates and how they are being migrated from WebCT to Moodle. Elizabeth Newall will share [...]
Feedback and Assessment – web resources
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:03
These look useful – a series of recordings of webinars held by the JISC Assessment and Feedback programme: Assessment and Feedback: in the hands of the student (Prof. David Nicol) Making Assessment Count (Prof. Gunter Saunders, University of Westminster and Peter Chatterton) e-Portfolios for Assessment and Feedback (Emma Purnell, University of Wolverhampton and Geoff Rebbeck, [...]
Making Babies in Second Life / Virtual Maternity Unit wins RCM Award
January 30th, 2012 at 03:01
Sometimes hard work does pay off. Colleen McCants and Fay Cross, of the ISLT Section’s Innovation Team, were pleased when their collaborative venture with Jenny Bailey, (Academic Midwifery, School Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy), the Virtual Maternity Unit in Second Life, won Jenny the Royal College of Midwives Innovation Award. In 2011 Jenny received a Lord [...]
Learning lunches at the LSRI
January 16th, 2012 at 09:01
Thanks to Charles Crook who recently passed on details about this regular event…. A number of LSRI students have encouraged the idea of a regular informal meeting at which matters of shared interest (around learning and the learning scieences) might be discussed. It looks as if Tuesday lunchtime is good for many people to convene [...]