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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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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...
View ArticleReflections 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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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 –...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhere 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:...
View ArticleThings 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...
View ArticleWhere 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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