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Roger Harrison

Online Learning: A User's Guide to Forking Education | Online Learning | HYBRID PEDAGOGY - 0 views

  • Cathy N. Davidson argued exactly this at her presentation, “Access Demands a Paradigm Shift,” at the 2013 Modern Language Association conference
  • The discussion forum, currently the holy grail of "engagement" inside most online courses, is particularly problematic. Exchanges within forums are usually too strictly controlled and reduce honest interaction to busy-work scored by a rubric. These interactions rarely resemble the many and varied kinds of discussions possible in a classroom. And many teachers require things of online discussions that they would never demand in an on-ground classroom: one post of at least 250 words, properly cited, and exactly 2 responses to fellow students. Imagine trying to create a lively classroom discussion with these kinds of constraints.
  • hierarchical discussion forum tools
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  • the best learning happens not inside courses but between them.
  • So, for example, I am working to create collaborations between courses at several institutions and assignments that bridge a course offered one term and a different course offered the next. I ask students to reflect on the connections
  • example, replace the video lecture that begins many online "lessons" with a video made by a student.
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    about the need for a paradigm shift
Roger Harrison

Massive MOOC Grading Problem - Stanford HCI Group Tackles Peer Assessment - moocnewsand... - 0 views

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    found benefits to student learning
Roger Harrison

Selecting meaningful #socialmedia tools for a #MOOC or #PLN - 0 views

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    examples of some social media tools for education
Roger Harrison

Martin Hawksey - Google+ - 0 views

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    This post by Martin Hawksey from Cetis in Edinburgh, introduces how student communications can be tracked.
Roger Harrison

Digital Resilience - organisational change - 0 views

  • Boyer’s (1990) classification of scholarly activity
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    by Martin Weller, professor at OU
Roger Harrison

OpenLearn Research Report 2006-2008 - Open Research Online - 0 views

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    Some suggestion in the data and as quoted by Martin Weller (The Digital Scholar), that the free OpenLearn initiative had some impact on increasing recruitment to paid courses
Roger Harrison

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

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    This is where Gilly Salomon is based, with Univ Leicester
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
Roger Harrison

PeerWise - student question setting bank - 0 views

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    idea is that students create the questions because this helps them think about the topic and how to answer it etc
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