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How to improve asthma patient outcomes using spaced education
Cover of Living with Asthma There had been no plans to make this content public, but I thought I’d share it because of my interesting realisation that the Zemanta search tool may be a reasonably valid...
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Lost in the clouds in an OLDS MOOC 2013
Fig. 1. Detail from Clouds (1812) Constable. I’ve shared my frustrations with Cloudworks from the start of the OLDS MOOC 2013 … and had some experience a year ago so entered the cloud with a sense of...
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Would you know a digital scholar if you met one? Are we there yet?
Martin Weller, in ‘The Digital Scholar’ looks forward to the time when there will be such people – a decade hence. I suggested, in a review of his book in Amazon, that ’10 months’ was more likely...
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Openness in Education WK1 MOOC
Openness in Education Get comfortable with the technology Look around Set up a blog if you don’t have one and use the Blog Aggregator with #H817open tag There are badges in Cloudworks if you like this...
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Where do I stand academically? Where and what next? And the madness of being.
Masters in Open and Distance Education (MAODE) with the Open University, UK (OU) H800: Technology-enhanced learning: practices and debates H807: Innovations in eLearning – Learning outcomes H810:...
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The communismization of knowledge and Open Educational Resources
Fig.1. I like spirals. Thirty years ago this was just a photo. For me it is an expression of what learning looks like. (I think this is St.John’s College, Boat House – or is it Balliol?) At the base...
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We’re no longer trying to sell magic potions out the back of a tub-trap
Fig.1. We’re no longer trying to sell magic potions out the back of a tub-trap. Still playing catch-up after the Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) Through week six writing and most activities (a few...
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Mapping Pedagogy and Tools for Effective Learning Design
This is an activity in week 7 of Open University postgraduate module H809: Practice-bases research in e-learning which forms part of the Masters in Open & Distance Education. Shared here, as in my...
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H817open Week 2 Activity 8: Imagine you are constructing a course in digital...
A data visualization of Wikipedia as part of the World Wide Web, demonstrating hyperlinks (Photo credit: Wikipedia) H817 Open Activity 8 ACTIVITY: Imagine you are constructing a course in digital...
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I keep getting this crazy panic that I can’t know enough soon enough to ‘make...
Fig. 1. Testing ahead of an MBA Webinar I keep getting this crazy panic that I can’t know enough soon enough to ‘make a difference’ – the learning bug has set off a tempest in my brain Just as well...
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Imagine you are constructing a course in digital skills for an identified...
H817 Open Activity 8 ACTIVITY: Imagine you are constructing a course in digital skills for an identified group of learners (e.g. undergraduates, new employees, teachers, mature learners, military...
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Time to write
Fig.1 H809 EMA Mindmap (for fellow H809 / MA ODErs I’ve added a PDF version in the TMA Forum) Created using Simpleminds. H809 – Practice-based research in e-learning MA ODE – Masters in Open and...
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The networked practitioner in e-learning and the 1914-18 War revisited
I’ve just read ‘The Sleepwalkers. How Europe went to war in 1914′. By Christopher Clark. More than any book I have read before on the subject this blows away any myths or propaganda – not least the...
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Recollections of postgraduate online learning since 2010
Fig.1 Screengrab from JISC 2011 that I took part in via Twitter (see top right habd column). From my OU student blog of 14th March via a folder in my vast gallery on picasa. Two and a half years ago I...
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Reflection on a decade of e-learning
Having not taken stock for a while it was refreshing and re-assuring to consider the Open University postgraduate modules that I have taken, though it has taken this long to understand the meaning of...
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The nature of learning – through travel, online, face to face … and in your head
I love to travel, not just on holiday with friends and family, but alone. Maybe this happens to you too, but I always find travel, especially new trips and destinations, are a catalyst to reflection....
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Does exposure in the sense of ‘open’ learning work?
Fig. 1. what collaboration online looks like? Activity theory meets neuroscience. This could be many heads knocking together, or the internal workings inside one. I’m getting a sense of deja vu as the...
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How the Open University created a hunger in a group of mature students
Sitting in a lecture hall with 20 mature students … or rather during a half hour break I am sleeping along the seats in the back row …. I learn that 7 of the 20 are recent OU graduates. This includes...
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Picasa Web Galleries – My Master of Arts in Open and Distance Education in...
Google offers a myriad of ways to share content, whether images or words, from galleries to entire conversations. with circles and hangouts. Unwittingly I’ve been part of their ‘game’ since the...
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