This evening I chanced on a twitter post by Javiera Atenas (@jatenas) noting that Oxford University now have over 1,000 podcasts available for use in teaching via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open. I’ve known for some time that Oxford were building up a bank of recordings licensed for individual use, but had missed this… Continue reading
The idea of being a critically reflective practitioner is fundamental to many professions. In some traditional taught programmes, the different theoretical and practical approaches to reflection, whether that is Kolb’s experiential learning cycle or Schon’s reflection in action is well explored. However, social networking provides us with some interesting curveballs… Continue reading
University staff will hopefully have seen our call for people to participate in a project exploring the use of iPads to support team working. This is one of a number of iPad projects starting up at the university and sits alongside work others are already doing to incorporate them into… Continue reading
Students come to a Moodle course to carry out a task, not browse. Almost always they’ll already know the task before they log in Continue reading
From time to time, variations of the same question, “What is this for?”, have arisen in the Moodle workshops; I think this is a fundamentally good and a fundamentally important question for everyone building a course to ask, particularly if they are working with a campus-based cohort Continue reading
Sometimes the most eye-opening insights seem the most obvious once you’ve heard them. That was certainly the case for me when I listened to Barry Spencer, from Bromley College, talk about VLEs at a recent Partner College meeting Continue reading
In July three one-day conferences on learning and teaching were held at Greenwich Maritime. The conference archives contain recordings of the distinguished keynote speakers, and slides from the presenters can be found on each of the websites: Monday 4 July: Promoting Inclusive Change: addressing equity and success for BME students… Continue reading
I’ve been spending a fair proportion of my time lately trying to work out how to give useful advice to staff about pedagogical approaches to help them in the design of their Moodle course areas Continue reading