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Learning To Teach Online Episodes - This is a an excellent Australian site that contains vidoes about a wide range of online teaching. Your view?

The manifesto for teaching online is intended to stimulate ideas about creative online teaching. It was written by teachers and researchers in the field of online education, in connection with the MSc in E-learning programme at the University of Edinburgh. It attempts to rethink some of the orthodoxies and unexamined truisms surrounding the field.

"In this chapter we discussed why fostering feelings of "being there" and "being together" are so important in creating online presence, and we provided an overview of the current research on presence. We also defined the concept of presence and explained the difference between presence and engagement, as well as the social, psychological, and emotional aspects of presence in the online environment.

Also on behalf of Helen Davies. This is a link to the abstract of a review of Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader.

An interesting website that has lots of links to theory, online design etc.

Australian Government Office for Teaching and Learning resource library has this report, along with others.

May be useful?

I am posting this on behalf of Helen Davies. Please have a look at this website. In particular, check out the Activities of Initial grounding; eLearning starting points; Claims about eLearning and Developing eLearning. They are all very useful (PDF format so can download) all CC licenced.

Looking at these I think they would be helpful if we wanted to use them, as they seem to be activities that can be undertaken as part of a unit on online learning.

Looking at this is is good for e learning but appears to be classroom based activities, a wealth of information though. Could be adapted with work to an online course.

An actual post on OERs this time. The article is from 2013 and on how: "Wales has become one of the first nations to agree to make university course material publicly available so that academics do not have to create their lectures from scratch."

Interesting paper and could be used to justify using time limited, first pass on-line assessment instead of exams.