October 2013

Digital Research – a double edged sword (infographic)

Allison Morris has shared a very interesting infographic that she worked on about digital research with regard to U.S college students. She discusses this image in a blog post at Infantium – http://www.infantium.com/blog/2013/05/25/students-and-digital-research/ It clearly […]

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Mooc creators criticise courses’ lack of creativity | News | Times Higher Education

http://ht.ly/pWmjI Stephen Downes pulls few punches as he discusses how the current iteration of the MOOC is far removed from the original ideas behind it. This has also been a concern of mine – the […]

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Technology-enhanced learning – workloads and costs | The Weblog of (a) David Jones

http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/technology-enhanced-learning-workloads-and-costs/#comment-6535 A sensible overview of long overdue research into the real costs (time and money) for teachers developing and delivering eLearning. The number one issue that our teachers raise with me is that they would […]

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MOOC Discussion Forums: barrier to engagement? |e-Literate

http://mfeldstein.com/mooc-discussion-forums-barriers-engagement/ I’ve often felt daunted by the volume of posts and chaotic nature of discussion forums in MOOCs – glad to see that I’m not the only one. Interesting that posters tend to be higher […]

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Why are people at UC adopting Mahara and ePortfolio practice – UC Portfolio

http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/portfolio/view/view.php?t=PBt9i7n4YUmTC3XRLV5E Some fantastic descriptions of uses of ePortfolios at the University of Canberra. via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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105 Free Moodle Video Tutorials | Diigo

https://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Felearningindustry.com%2F105-free-moodle-video-tutorials?gname=diigoineducation This is a comprehensive set of how-to videos about using a wide range of tools in Moodle. The videos vary in quality but for sheer coverage, it is hard to beat. via Delicious (via […]

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