education

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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Designing DDLR and DDeLR – a live blog

ed tech, edtech, education, education design, elearning, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

In three weeks time (Friday 17/10) I’ll start teaching the Design and Develop Learning Resources (DDLR) and Design and Develop eLearning Resources (DDeLR) subjects for the Diploma of Vocational Education and Training. (Dip VET) It’s […]

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Tired of students playing on their phones in class?

browser, ed tech, edtech, education, edugames, game based learning, interaction, interactive, mobile, mobile learning, quiz, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Maybe you should get them playing on their phones in class then. I ran a small session this morning with some of our teachers from Accounting and Law about Kahoot – a great free online […]

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Reframing a job interview as a class

education, education design by Colin Simpson

So I had an interview for an eLearning Developer job the other day and I feel like I fizzed it. I’m not entirely sure why – I’m utterly qualified for the position (it’s pretty much […]

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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry | Now Enrolling

education, elearn, elearning, free, hogwarts, learning, mooc, screenface by Colin Simpson

http://bit.ly/1iQSjDY Now this is a MOOC that I approve of – study seven courses (9 lessons each) at Hogwarts online. via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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English Raven: Moodle Tutorial: Page design to avoid the ‘scroll of death’…

education, elearn, elearning, Moodle, navigation, screenface by Colin Simpson

http://jasonrenshaw.typepad.com/jason_renshaws_web_log/2012/02/moodle-tutorial-page-design-to-avoid-the-scroll-of-death.html via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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Using Feedback in Moodle for more than student evaluations & Using Padlet

activity, assessment, education, education design, ePortfolio, interaction, interactive, Moodle, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

The first in our series of CITFLN TeacherNet Show and tell sessions went well with Jo Whitfield sharing some ideas about using the Feedback tool for more than student evaluations and I presented Padlet, an […]

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Digital Research – a double edged sword (infographic)

agency, ed tech, education, education design, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

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 Discussion Forums: barrier to engagement? |e-Literate

discussion, education, elearn, elearning, forum, mooc, screenface by Colin Simpson

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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