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Roger Harrison

Using the web for learning and teaching - a new understanding | Higher Education Networ... - 0 views

  • engage productively in relevant online communities" and "influence others in an increasingly digital world". So the importance of these forms of engagement is being established but what is not yet clear is how we actually support this in practice.
  • to communicate to learners what the possible benefits of having a presence and sharing practice online could be
  • and the ability to visibly collaborate on the web, can appear daunting, risky and potentially a huge distraction from the "real" curriculum for many learners
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  • It's not commonly perceived as an evolving practice in which personal views are openly shared and in which students' opinions become a valued part of a communal learning experience.
  • What are the implications for learning and teaching when we move from perceiving the web as a collection of tools to thinking of it as a series of overlapping spaces?
Roger Harrison

Why universities should acquire - and teach - digital literacy - 0 views

  • It makes sense that universities should be nurturing students' familiarity with technology, encouraging its use in teaching and learning, and paying attention to developing broader digital literacy skills.
  • Lecturers (who are powerful role models for students) can be very resistant to adopting new digital teaching practices, and will vary in their ability to engage with the online world. Few universities seem to have adopted a digital literacy agenda in a widespread or meaningful way.
  • Additional layers of digital know-how can to be added as the student moves to a deeper lever of expertise
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  • They can practise working with feedback, and conversing in an iterative loop.
  • Once time and brainpower are freed up from memorising, will other skills come into play, bringing hitherto unimagined benefits?
  • Current undergraduates have never known a life without the internet – it is the glue that holds their personal and social lives together.
Roger Harrison

Learn to Teach. - 0 views

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    These self directed learning modules look great!
Roger Harrison

MOOCs, Courseware, and the Course as an Artifact |e-Literate - 0 views

  • I use and build on the educational production of others; I do it openly on public sites
  • I contribute bac
  • if there were no stigma attached to sharing
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  • describe the value of MOOCs as reaching a different audience than the traditional matriculated college student and provide a different val
Roger Harrison

Facebook in university teaching - 1 views

  • Using Facebook to enhance student engagement
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    some good reflection on this case study of using facebook to develop a learning community on a large university course
Roger Harrison

3e-Strategy - 0 views

  • Feedback from the 2009 MLE Evaluation highlighted that Edinburgh Napier students expect all their modules to be supported online, and that they value a balance of face-to-face contact with
  • online interaction. While few modules or programmes can be taught fully online, an underlying principle of the benchmark is that all modules can adopt technology to benefit some aspect of the learning, teaching and assessment experience. This could involve the use of technology to:
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    good example for Edinburgh Napier of their elearning structure etc
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