ed tech

Week 1 of the 11.133x MOOC – tick.

11.133x, ed tech, edtech, education design, mooc by Colin Simpson

MOOCs often take a little while to ramp up but the MITx 11.133x Implementation yada yada – I’m going to stick with 11.133x for now, that’s a long title – MOOC feels like it’s just […]

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I swear this MOOC is going to stick

activity, ed tech, edtech, mooc by Colin Simpson

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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Two great presentations from iMoot – Jim Judges and Gina Veliotis

discussion, ed tech, education, education design by Colin Simpson

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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Try-a-tool challenge Week 2 – ed.ted.com

ed tech, education, education design, elearning, free, interaction, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

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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Rejigging professional development training for teachers – Sarah Thorneycroft

discussion, ed tech, education, education design, elearning, professional development by Colin Simpson

Sarah Thorneycroft (@sthcrft) from the University of New England (Australia) often impresses with her thoughtful presentations about dragging academics and teaching staff into the 21st century when it comes to professional development in online teaching […]

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Designing DDLR and DDeLR – a live blog

ed tech, edtech, education, education design, elearning, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

In three weeks time (Friday 17/10) I’ll start teaching the Design and Develop Learning Resources (DDLR) and Design and Develop eLearning Resources (DDeLR) subjects for the Diploma of Vocational Education and Training. (Dip VET) It’s […]

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Tired of students playing on their phones in class?

browser, ed tech, edtech, education, edugames, game based learning, interaction, interactive, mobile, mobile learning, quiz, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Maybe you should get them playing on their phones in class then. I ran a small session this morning with some of our teachers from Accounting and Law about Kahoot – a great free online […]

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Digital Research – a double edged sword (infographic)

agency, ed tech, education, education design, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Allison Morris has shared a very interesting infographic that she worked on about digital research with regard to U.S college students. She discusses this image in a blog post at Infantium – http://www.infantium.com/blog/2013/05/25/students-and-digital-research/ It clearly […]

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Technology-enhanced learning – workloads and costs | The Weblog of (a) David Jones

ed tech, elearn, elearning, screenface, teachers, teaching by Colin Simpson

http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/technology-enhanced-learning-workloads-and-costs/#comment-6535 A sensible overview of long overdue research into the real costs (time and money) for teachers developing and delivering eLearning. The number one issue that our teachers raise with me is that they would […]

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Blog about All the Teaching and Technology!

ed tech, education, elearning by Colin Simpson

Having run the Gamerlearner blog for a couple of years – albeit intermittently – I found more and more often that I wanted to discuss aspects of the use of technology in education that didn’t […]

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