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Roger Harrison

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

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  • 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

Facebook in university teaching - 1 views

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  • Using Facebook to enhance student engagement
  • Roger Harrison on 04 May 13
     
    some good reflection on this case study of using facebook to develop a learning community on a large university course
Roger Harrison

Book on MOOC and how to set up #MOOC yourself - 0 views

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  • Roger Harrison on 19 Apr 13
     
    Book on how to set up a MOOC Follow by Email Translate Powered by Translate I support free learning Popular Posts International Women's Day: women in top positions at universities and women in ICT Happy international Women's day to all of us! A lot has changed in the last 100 years for women worldwide, but there is still a lot to do. S... Join the open and free course on mobile learning: #MobiMOOC Mobile learning (mLearning) is all the rage at the moment, but how do you get started and how do you maximize the mLearning plans you have?... free eBook with 61 tips for #mLearning from eLearning Guild The eLearning Guild has published a free eBook, sharing 61 tips on mLearning from a wide variety of mobile learning experts. The report... Free #research papers on #mLearning from mLearn conference Today the free proceedings of the mLearn2012 conference that was organized in Helsinki were put online. For all that want to get a peek i... FutureLearn: pedagogical & mLearning MOOC platform - the approach For all of you out there wanting to push your government into setting up a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform gathering knowled... Brandon Hall Award Excellence in Learning Brandon Hall Award Excellence in Learning good to be connected Find this blog in the education blogs directory Subscribe in a reader Click here to subscribe to this blog in iTunes. Mobile Learning Creative Commons License This content is subject to a Creative Commons License. Follow Ignatia on Twitter QR code for mobile site or click on the image for preview QR code for mobile site or click on the image for preview edublogger badge Bloglog Ignatia Facebook Facebook/Ignatia Linkedin Linkedin/ingedewaard Twitter Twitter/ignatia Del.icio.us Del.icio.us/ignatia Skype Skype/Ignatia_dW slideshare slideshare/ignatia friendfeed Friendfeed/ignatia scribd Scribd/ignatia academia Academia/ Get your own Wid
Roger Harrison

Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel? « Educational Technology Debate - 0 views

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shared by Roger Harrison on 25 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Talk about giving the people what they want. It’s been compared to the introduction of self-serve in grocery stores in the 70’s and 80’s whereby a digitally-accessible education sees people picking and choosing their own learning rather than waiting for a ‘grocer’ to assemble it for them.
  • developing countries where university-level education is not universally accessible, it means something even more – being able to study at all, and world-class courses at that. AfterSchoolAfrica.com has a good summary here if you need a quick overview of the history of MOOCs so far by the way.
  • Once flexible and even user-generated learning content embedded in MOOC’s
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  • Can we actually trust people to choose their own education like they choose toothbrushes
  • Roger Harrison on 25 Apr 13
     
    great historical comparisions
Roger Harrison

How was it? The UK's first Coursera Moocs assessed | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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  • attracted 308,000 students,
  • The programmes, which ran over five weeks, had an estimated average completion rate of about 12 per cent, while early figures suggest that each Mooc cost about £30,000 from development to delivery.
  • University of Edinburgh’s
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  • Mooc cost about £30,00
  • From August 2012 until the course went live in January, Knox estimates he was spending about eight hours a week on Mooc-related activity. During the five weeks of the course itself, this figure doubled, he says.
  • but we thought that once it was up and running, it would kind of run itself. That’s the impression we got from Coursera - just wind it up and watch it go. However, we found that we were spending a lot of time monitoring the course while it was going.”
  • he decision proved unpopular with some students, Knox says, as they had been expecting to see professors imparting knowledge as they would in a lecture theatre.
  • estimates that some 2,000 students completed the final assignment.
Roger Harrison

Learn How OLI Helps Students | Open Learning Initiative - 0 views

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  • The Open Learning Initiative’s goal is to improve learning—whether you are a student at a college or university or learning on your own. Our courses provide you with targeted feedback and self-assessment tools so you’ll know where you’re excelling and where you need more work.
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MOOCs may eye the world market, but does the world want them? | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Online higher education is increasingly hailed as a chance for educators in the developed world to expand access and quality across the globe
  • enroll in online courses. The African Virtual University was created based on work the World Bank began in 1995 to provide education in sub-Saharan African. It now supplies coursework
Roger Harrison

Institute of Learning Innovation - formerly Beyond Distance Research Alliance - Univers... - 0 views

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  • Roger Harrison on 05 May 13
     
    This is where Gilly Salomon is based, with Univ Leicester
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