Topic 3, Collaborative Learning and Topic 4, Mobile and Flexible Learning Brindley et al addressed collaborative learning and outlined ten factors for success. Interestingly, being graded for collaboration wasn’t one of them. The following are the main factors that matter: Clarity of expectations, instructions, a task that is suitable for group work, a task that … Continue reading Collaborative Learning – No Man is an Island

The topic of OER took me back a few years. It got me thinking about the time my then employer decided to create a new course to train language teachers. Everyone on the team was very excited about the possibilities and we talked at length about who our students would be, what their needs were, … Continue reading Open Educational Resources…making the impossible possible.

  There are so many aspects to digital literacies it’s no wonder that it’s plural!  The well known Jisc infographic, ‘seven elements of digital literacies’ captures a lot, except perhaps, that these literacies need to be taught. The myth of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants has been well and truly busted by David White with … Continue reading Digital Literacies

Ironically, although I’ve taught online and blended courses for almost a decade, and encouraged all my students to feel the fear and actively use the VLE anyway, I’m not the most ‘connected’ person in the world. I have very few Apps on my phone and apart from the weather and a newspaper I can’t seem … Continue reading Digital Me

Week 1 of ONL 161 has been all about connecting and networking. We connect to the course material and to each other via Google drive, WordPress, Adobe Connect and Twitter. Setting up blogs, Google plus accounts and twitter handles was not new to a number of participants, but it was a huge learning curve for … Continue reading Connecting and Networking

Excited and nervous to start the ONL161 course today. It has been lovely to meet facilitators and other participants from KI and KTH. Looking forward to learning a lot together! Having felt lost setting up rather basic functions, am now feeling rather accomplished at all that I managed to connect to, with help from my … Continue reading New Beginnings