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Time to explore some of the strange courses that have been identified. There are currently two types:...more...
Natalie writes about how she's working a new practice into how she responds to student queries. It's a process in which she attempts to model an approach to answering the query and including links to relevant sites. This is a practice that I use a fair bit, especially with the Moodle Book resources in my undergraduate course. This post seeks to explore my own practice, but also how wide spread that practice is in others....more...
Some colleagues and I are embarking on a project exploring how teacher education might move toward adoption Open Educational Practices (OEP). A project that is currently being driven by a funding from one University, and which might lead to an application for funding from another institution. In part, we're thinking about how teacher education in each of these two institutions can adopt OEP, what that might look like, what the barriers be, and how might we go about moving toward something like this that won't fade away once the money runs out or we move on....more...
"Proteus" (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) by skooksie...more...
In a previous post I generated various representations of when Moodle Book resources were being used and some indications of when they were being created. What I didn't do in that post was generate a calendar heatmap of when the Book resources were being create and modified. This is of interest because I'm wondering whether or not these resources (web pages) are being modified throughout the semester, or just at the beginning....more...
What is your experience of the digital technologies provided by the organisations for which you work?...more...
The last post in this series looked briefly at the contents of Moodle Book resources. This post is going to look at when the book resources are used, including:...more...
Miranda picks up on a common point around the combination of technology and pedagogy with this post titled Pedagogy First then Technology. I disagree. If you have to think in simple sequential terms, then I think pedagogy should be the last consideration, not the first. The broader problem though is our tendency to want limit ourselves to the sequential...more...
As part of the USQ Technology Demonstrator Project (a bit more here) we'll soon be able to play with the Moodle Activity Viewer. As described the VC, the Technology Demonstrator Project entails...more...
The level of support provided by digital technologies to broad learning and teaching tasks within my little part of my current institution is extremely limited. The following is one explanation why this is the case, and one set of suggestions for what might be done, both immediately and longer term....more...
Part 6 of this series diverges a bit from the last post and moves away from what people are doing with the Book resources to focus on the contents of the Book resources themselves. Questions I'm hoping to explore in this post include:...more...
Continuing the exploration of how the Moodle Book module is being used, this post picks up from the last and will...more...
Some colleagues and are re-starting an exploration of OEP in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). A first task is an attempt to get a handle on what has been done/is known about OEP/OER. Yes, we're looking for spectrums/frameworks/models etc that help map out what might be done with OEP/OER. We're interested in using this to understand what's been done around OEP within ITE and also what we've already done....more...