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More on ‘Rethinking pedagogy for a digital age’.

Why does the OU put the novice and expert together in the MAODE? Although I praise this approach and after two years have been a beneficiary I wonder if the research points to the need for greater...

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MAODE Students – All the Hs: H810, H807, H800, H808 …

Enlightened and loving the MAODE, but always keen to have a book on the side that I can read, take notes on, think about and share. This, I have come to understand, is largely because I was taught (or...

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Reflections on e-learning – September 2010 to September 2012

New Software Things I was starting to get my head around in 2010: Skype (a phone call for free) Delicious (don’t get it, yet … or need it?) Outlook (Never used it ’til last week not being a PC person)...

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Some online tutor sessions work, some do not. Some social platforms work,...

Fig. 1. Robert Gagne – a must have for anyone interested in learning Gagne (1970 pp29-30) suggests that instruction in an organized group discussion develops the use and generalization of knowledge –...

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The Open University’s Masters in Open and Distance Education (MAODE).

Fig. 1. The Open University’s Masters in Open and Distance Education (MAODE). Expressed as a Wordle. A personal collection of key influencers based on those tagged in this blog. Includes my own...

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How to visualise learning – think Lava Lamps!

Fig. 1. Lava Lamps – and how we learn – on a rising thermal and in coloured, slimy blobs … There is a physiological response to the first moments of a new module – I am nervous. This is like meeting...

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Where do I stand academically? Where and what next? And the madness of being.

Masters in Open and Distance Education (MAODE) with the Open University, UK (OU) H800: Technology-enhanced learning: practices and debates H807: Innovations in eLearning – Learning outcomes H810:...

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Things I wished I’d known when I started the MAODE three years ago (I’ve...

A thorough introduction to the platform and tools as a common 16 hours to all modules. An afternoon, face-to-face tutorial? Through OU Students regionally if not with your tutor. Perhaps through Alumni...

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Here in Lewes we shut the town centre down for a march as often as we can. It all stems from 5th November. We had only been here a couple of months and we were enrolled in a Bonfire Society. That was...

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Where do I stand academically? Where and what next? And the madness of being.

Master of Arts  in Open and Distance Education (MA ODE) with the Open University, UK (OU) H800: Technology-enhanced learning: practices and debates H807: Innovations in eLearning – Learning outcomes...

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