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Roger Harrison

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

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e-learning trends digital literacy

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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

PeerWise - student question setting bank - 0 views

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question bank assessment evaluation feedback

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  • Roger Harrison on 03 May 13
     
    idea is that students create the questions because this helps them think about the topic and how to answer it etc
Roger Harrison

3e-Strategy - 0 views

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elearning e-learning e learning online strategy infrastructure support tutorials

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  • 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:
  • Roger Harrison on 04 May 13
     
    good example for Edinburgh Napier of their elearning structure etc
Roger Harrison

Facebook in university teaching - 1 views

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facebook social learning communities learning communiites social media

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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

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

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e-learning education innovation technology

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

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

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value effectiveness pedagogy OERs OER recruitment enrollment

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  • Roger Harrison on 05 May 13
     
    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

Digital Resilience - organisational change - 0 views

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education resilience openaccess pedagogy

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  • Boyer’s (1990) classification of scholarly activity
  • Roger Harrison on 05 May 13
     
    by Martin Weller, professor at OU
Roger Harrison

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

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elearning trends futuristic future Moocs accessability

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  • 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

MOOC - International Health Systems | Canvas Network - 0 views

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moocs examples healthcare public health

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  • Participants in this course will examine social, economic, and political determinants of health; the evolution of various systems around the world; key health policies and priorities; models of providing health care and insurance; and systems of remuneration, financing, planning, manpower, education, and training. You will review the major determinants of health status; international development and social change around the world and reflect on how these issues and trends apply to our own health care system and society.
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