David Bevington

Lessons learnt – future practice

Posted on December 9, 2019 by David Bevington

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”This quote is from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, the last of his Four Quartets, poems I read at school and certain phrases have stuck with me. In fact, in consideringContinue reading “Lessons learnt – future practice”

Design for online and blended learning

Posted on December 9, 2019 by David Bevington

Like all the other ONL topics, this one was designed to make us think. The focus of design for online and blended learning was not on the tools and technologies that could be used to design, but on the pedagogical aspects of frameworks and models that should be considered when creating good blended and online learningContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning”

Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on December 8, 2019 by David Bevington

This topic of ONL192 was about getting the teams to closely examine learning in communities, networking and collaboration. Our PBL scenario provided the experiential learning to allow us to address the the effectiveness of small collaborative learning groups in the online environment and the difference between collaboration and cooperation. This topic was where our group, PBL13,Continue reading “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on December 6, 2019 by David Bevington

“Open Educational Practices” by oeps.scotland is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Topic 2 of ONL introduced a bunch of acronyms: OEP, OER, PLE, PLN. These acronyms are linked by the topics we had to consider: open education and sharing. Here are some definitions of these acronyms: OEP, open educational practices, are concerned with promoting and supporting equity and openness in education.OER, open educational resources, are openly licencedContinue reading “Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on October 19, 2019 by David Bevington

This image reflects my feelings about online participation and the visitor-resident continuum. Either it is the scariest thing I have done: leaving a perfectly good aeroplane, safe and secure, to experience the rush and exhilaration of open online participation. Or it is an exciting journey into the open wide world with no safety net! As […]