Wrapping up week 0 of the 11.133x MOOC
So far so good in the MITx 11.133x Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology MOOC – I’ve just finished Week 0 which I guess is like the O (Orientation) Week of MOOCs. A bit of […]
Colin Simpson
I swear this MOOC is going to stick
Completion rates for MOOCs are ridiculously low – and my completion rate specifically is appalling. I did successfully complete Kevin Werbach’s Coursera MOOC on Gamification (which I can recommend although it is business not education focussed) but […]
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Free Moodles for everyone with MoodleCloud
Well this seems like kind of a big deal – Moodle HQ announced MoodleCloud this morning at Moodle Moot AU 2015. They may not be the first LMS provider to make their platform freely available […]
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Finding a use for Minecraft and Hololens enabled augmented reality
This isn’t exactly news now (it’s so last week) but I keep thinking about the demonstration at the E3 games expo of an augmented reality version of Minecraft via Microsoft’s upcoming Hololens tool. (The good […]
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Why mathematicians are hoarding chalk – and why it matters
This post on Gizmodo caught my eye because I noticed the other day that one of our classrooms still has a blackboard / chalkboard that appears to be getting a decent amount of use. At first […]
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Two great presentations from iMoot – Jim Judges and Gina Veliotis
The iMoot online Moodle conference was held recently and while the overall standard of presentations was quite high, there were two stand-outs for me. Jim Judges from the University of Warwick in the UK was […]
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Best Practices with DIY Video: CAMERA!
Source: Best Practices with DIY Video: CAMERA! Some great practical tips for recording video – the number of times that I’ve seen people sitting or standing metres away from the camera still astonishes me. Make […]
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Try-a-tool challenge Week 3 – LessonPaths and Blendspace
This challenge is about a couple more content curation tools – LessonPaths and Blendspace. On first glance they don’t seem as rich or interactive as Ted.Ed but I’ll see what I’m able to put together […]
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Try-a-tool challenge Week 2 – ed.ted.com
The last couple of months a little hectic, with wrapping up one job and starting another (I’m now in the College of Business and Economics (CBE) at the Australian National University (ANU)) and so I have […]
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The Try-a-Tool-a-Week Challenge: Week 1 – Socrative (vs Kahoot)
Kelly Walsh over at EmergingEdTech seems like quite the Ed Tech advocate and he has started an ongoing series of posts for the next three months focusing on a range of tools. He has asked […]
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