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Ed tech must reads: Column #37

AR/VR/XR, CMM, mooc, video by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail 31st May 2022 2021 to 2022: The Decade of the MOOC from Journal of Interactive Media in Education Remember when MOOCs were going to be the comet that wiped […]

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Ed Tech must reads – column #20

academic development, assessment, CMM, game based learning, game design, mooc by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail 1st Feb 2022 How not to write about HyFlex or online learning from Bryan Alexander While most academic discourse follows intellectually rigorous conventions, there is one area that seems […]

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Ed Tech must reads – Column 5

CMM, ed tech, mooc by Colin Simpson

First published in Campus Morning Mail 14th Sept 2021 Helpful tips for Hybrid teaching from Dr. Jenae Cohn (Twitter) Hybrid or hyflex is one of those new modes of teaching that have seemingly materialised fully-formed […]

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SOCRMx Week #8: The End

Analysis, methodology, mooc, SOCRMx, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Well I probably said all that I needed to say on my general feelings about this MOOC in my last post so this is largely for the sake of completion. The final week of this […]

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Week #6 SOCRMx – Quantitative analysis

Analysis, methodology, mooc, quantitative, SOCRMx by Colin Simpson

This section of the SOCRMx MOOC offers a fair introduction to statistics and the analysis of quantitative date. At least, enough to get a grasp on what is needed to get meaningful data and what […]

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Can I get a method: The EdinburghX SOCRMx Social Research Methods MOOC Week #1

academic development, methodology, mooc by Colin Simpson

MOOC Week #1 question responses Making a blog post is part of the participation in the MOOC. I’m just going to put my answers here at the top so people don’t need to read the […]

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Quick thoughts on two articles from 2013 about MOOCs

discussion, mooc, moocs, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

MOOC hype was really hitting its straps in 2013 and after a while it became pretty easy to predict what you would be reading in think piece such as the two that I’ve just been […]

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Week 4 of the 11.133x MOOC – Bringing it on home

11.133x, ed tech, edtech, mooc by Colin Simpson

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 […]

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Week 2 of the 11.133x MOOC – getting things done. (Gradually)

11.133x, clicker, ed tech, edtech, education, feedback, mooc, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

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.

11.133x, ed tech, edtech, education design, mooc by Colin Simpson

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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