Colin Simpson

A hierarchy of digital badges – Level 1 Accredited

assessment, badges, discussion, ePortfolio, pedagogy, professional development, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson 2 Comments on A hierarchy of digital badges – Level 1 Accredited

Part of me thinks it’s a really dumb idea to try to identify a hierarchy for digital badges and particular to try to name them. Because the people out there that don’t get badges are […]

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Developing Badge Literacy – an ongoing discussion

badges by Colin Simpson

Sarah Thorneycroft, (@sthcrft), who I mentioned the other day, has been thinking about where we get started in spreading awareness of the value of digital badges and who some of the key players are when […]

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Teaching with Moodle – the Moodle for beginners MOOC

badges, elearning, mooc, Moodle, pedagogy, teaching by Colin Simpson

I’ve been using Moodle for 3-4 years now but as a big part of my job is to train our teachers in it, it seemed wise to sign up for the new Teaching with Moodle […]

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Rejigging professional development training for teachers – Sarah Thorneycroft

discussion, ed tech, education, education design, elearning, professional development by Colin Simpson

Sarah Thorneycroft (@sthcrft) from the University of New England (Australia) often impresses with her thoughtful presentations about dragging academics and teaching staff into the 21st century when it comes to professional development in online teaching […]

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ePortfolio grading rubric

assessment, education design, ePortfolio, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Here’s a useful assessment rubric created by the University of Wisconsin – Stout that can be applied to ePortfolios. I would consider adding links within the criteria to exemplars of best practice but I think […]

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Final thoughts on DDLR / DDeLR

assessment, education, education design, learning, reflection by Colin Simpson

It feels like I’ve been banging on about this subject forever now but with assessments now finalised, it seems like a good time for a final wrap up. In broad terms, I was a little […]

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Delivering DDLR & DDeLR: Reflections

edtech, education, education design, teachers, teaching, training by Colin Simpson

Life got quite busy in the last few weeks, so screenface had to go on the back-burner for a little while. I think it’s worth taking a look at what happened with the DDLR & […]

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Designing DDLR & DDeLR – (Over)Structuring activities

edtech, education, education design, reflection, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

I’ve been a bit caught up preparing for this course and consequently this post has been sitting in the draft section for a while now. I ran the first class last Friday (17/10) and it […]

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Designing DDLR – More work on assessment

assessment, edtech, education, education design, elearn, elearning, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Now the focus of this project on Designing the Design & Develop Learning Resources course is on pinning down the assessments. J’s assessments for DDLR 3&4 seem strong but I just want to see whether […]

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Designing DDLR & DDeLR – Assessments

assessment, education, education design, elearning, learning, Practical tips, reflection by Colin Simpson

Today is all about pinning down the most appropriate types of assessments for this subject. Yesterday I think I got a little caught up in reviewing the principles of good assessment – which was valuable […]

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