Tag: elearning
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Reflections on parallel sessions: Ensuring learning design (Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2011)
This post is a reaction to one of the parallel sessions at the 2011 Durham Blackboard Users Conference. As Learning Technologists (LT), we often run the risk of being stuck between ensuring sound pedagogical practice and accommodating the wants of senior managers. None more so when distance learning is presented as a solution to addressing…
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Reflections on parallel sessions: Student-centred induction (Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2011)
This post presents a short overview of a parallel session from the Durham Blackboard Users Conference. This session outlined an approach to student induction and preparation for online study on a distance learning course.Session: ‘Three steps to success’ by Nichola Hayes, University of Leicester.
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Reflections: QR codes (Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2011)
As part of the 2011 Durham Blackboard Users Conference which focused on ‘location’ as a theme, mobile technologies were discussed a lot. QR codes cropped up regularly, and although I did not attend the sessions relating to this technology, I’d like to share some thoughts.
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Reflections: Concepts of Location, Mobility and Mobile Learning – Second Keynote (Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2011)
In this second keynote lecture of the Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2011, Professor John Traxler began by challenging the notion that elearning allows learning ‘anywhere, anytime’, and that it is infact not wholly true. There remains unresolved considerations, including sociological issues, to implementing mobile learning. I present here some of his key messages interwoven with…
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Reflections: Augmented Reality in Learning – First Keynote (Durham Blackboard Users Conference 2011)
This is the first post of my reflections from the 2011 Durham Blackboard Users Conference (abstracts also available on Durham site) on the theme of Location. My posts won’t be a complete representation of the session, more how I interpretted them and the points that stood out for me. I thought a series of short(ish) posts would be…
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eLearning Tools: Blogs, wikis and discussion boards – what do you use for what?
The diagram below (also available as a PDF) is my interpretation of how the three staple tools of elearning are best suited to different tasks.
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Rewiring Inclusion: strategies, tools and techniques to promote barrier-free learning (JISC/ALT Conference on Accessibility) [Short report]
Report back on attendance of JISC TechDis / ALT conference ‘Rewiring Inclusion: Strategies, tools and techniques to promote barrier-free learning’, Nottingham, 9th Feb 2010. Matt Cornock, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York. Funded by University of York FELT RRF.
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VLE adoption – approaching meaningful use of virtual learning environments
This post is a plain-text equivalent for the ideas presented in the Prezi: VLE adoption – approaching meaningful use of virtual learning environments.