Week 4 of the 11.133x MOOC – Bringing it on home
The final week (ok 2 weeks) of the MITx – Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology MOOC – is now done and dusted and it’s time for that slight feeling of “what do I do […]
Colin Simpson
Week 3 of the 11.133x MOOC – On fire
In comparison to last week, I ploughed through this weeks’ work. Probably because I have a separate education tech training event on this week – the ACODE Learning Technology Teaching Institute – and wanted to […]
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Week 2 of the 11.133x MOOC – getting things done. (Gradually)
The second week (well fortnight really) of the 11.133x MOOC moved us on to developing some resources that will help us to evaluate education technology and make a selection. Because I’m applying this to an actual […]
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Week 1 of the 11.133x MOOC – tick.
MOOCs often take a little while to ramp up but the MITx 11.133x Implementation yada yada – I’m going to stick with 11.133x for now, that’s a long title – MOOC feels like it’s just […]
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Wrapping up week 0 of the 11.133x MOOC
So far so good in the MITx 11.133x Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology MOOC – I’ve just finished Week 0 which I guess is like the O (Orientation) Week of MOOCs. A bit of […]
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I swear this MOOC is going to stick
Completion rates for MOOCs are ridiculously low – and my completion rate specifically is appalling. I did successfully complete Kevin Werbach’s Coursera MOOC on Gamification (which I can recommend although it is business not education focussed) but […]
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Free Moodles for everyone with MoodleCloud
Well this seems like kind of a big deal – Moodle HQ announced MoodleCloud this morning at Moodle Moot AU 2015. They may not be the first LMS provider to make their platform freely available […]
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Finding a use for Minecraft and Hololens enabled augmented reality
This isn’t exactly news now (it’s so last week) but I keep thinking about the demonstration at the E3 games expo of an augmented reality version of Minecraft via Microsoft’s upcoming Hololens tool. (The good […]
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Why mathematicians are hoarding chalk – and why it matters
This post on Gizmodo caught my eye because I noticed the other day that one of our classrooms still has a blackboard / chalkboard that appears to be getting a decent amount of use. At first […]
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Two great presentations from iMoot – Jim Judges and Gina Veliotis
The iMoot online Moodle conference was held recently and while the overall standard of presentations was quite high, there were two stand-outs for me. Jim Judges from the University of Warwick in the UK was […]
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