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First hand account of the FOE Coursera mooc collapse

RT @drtonybates: New blog post: Designing online learning for the 21st century http://t.co/AlhaRY7Q (via @TerryNeal) #elearning #future

Developing a real web presence rather than an idealised one. UMW web site and UMW blogs. Not online learning but learning online.

"The aim of the Online Snacks initiative is to provide teachers with the opportunity to develop e-learning skills aligned to their teaching and learning needs. All sessions are FREE and are facilitated by a Digi Advisor" Developed in NZ for teachers.

Article suggesting online education can't be as good as a f2f ed - which is then undermined by all the comments from online students.

Myth 1 - Online Learning Is Impersonal Myth 2 - Too Much Going On Myth 3 - My Class Is Unique Myth 4 - Blogs Are for Navel Gazing Myth 5 - Discussion Forums Push on Strings Myth 6 - Online Group Projects Are Impossible Myth 7 - Tech Problems Will Derail Teaching Myth 8 - You Cannot Convey Passion Online Myth 9 - Virtual Classroom as a Literal Translation Myth 10 - Faculty Training Is About Technology

Bates on the role of culture in our learning environment.

"Dropping expensive technology into classrooms without changing the rules, models, methods, or content of the learning experience."<--Orewa anyone?

"Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy."

The core proposition is that with the unprecedented amounts of digital data now becoming  available about learners' activities and interests, from educational institutions and elsewhere online, there is significant potential to make better use of this data to improve learning  outcomes.

27 video primers by C.J. Bonk on e-teaching and learning topics such as planning online courses, managing online courses, etc.

Useful free resource to support PD around online teaching.  Lots of case studies and pedagogy based.

Guardian article on Moocs

"I use a version of the "garden method" in my classes at Duke, requiring each student to make at least two public contributions to knowledge, where they translate something they learned in the class to some online forum where others can make use of their learning and respond to it."

Jorum is starting to seem useful. This is a repository of online learning materials at tertiary level. Everything must be licensed openly and no login required to access materials.

"The key question though is: what is your 'core' mission? Are we a teaching and learning institution, and if so, why would we contract this out to someone else? If they can do teaching and learning better than us, why are we doing it? Or is our mission to become just an accreditation agency that also does research?"

This study is an exploratory case study aimed at analysing one academic's teaching in terms of conceptions of teaching and its effect on student involvement or engagement. The research has been done by drawing on Gonzalez' dimensions of online teaching and data generated by the LMS and data analytics in general. There is growing interest in the use of academic analytics. However, most of the reported work is being done at the level of institutions/groupings of courses. Improving teaching can only be done through changing the conceptions of teaching/learning held by the academics. Can individual teaching staff, reflecting on their courses, learn anything important from examining their courses through analytics? How can this be done effectively? What do they find? This study uses an academic's approach to teaching + use as an indicator of involvement, therefore, an improvement of teaching.

Welcome to this online community for people interested in Educating the Net Generation: Implications for Learning and Teaching in Australian Universities, a project funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council, 2006-2009.