Rethinking Ed Tech at our university
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I’ve embarked on some sort of ramshackle process of evaluating what we’re doing in terms of Ed. Tech and design with some of my fellow Ed Techs […]
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Thoughts on: “Digital is not the future – Hacking the institution from the inside” – how education support staff can bring change
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by Colin Simpson
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One of the best things about my research and being part of a community of practice of education technologists/designers is that there are a lot of overlaps. While I’d hate to jump the gun, I […]
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Thoughts on: “What works and why?” OLT Project 2016
The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) is – now was – an Australian government body intended to support best practice in enhancing teaching and learning in the Higher Education sector. It funds a number of […]
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Starting a PhD
This is me, today, Tuesday the 1st of March 2016. This is the day that I officially start my PhD studies (is it studies or research?) with the Faculty of Education and Social Work at […]
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Week 4 of the 11.133x MOOC – Bringing it on home
The final week (ok 2 weeks) of the MITx – Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology MOOC – is now done and dusted and it’s time for that slight feeling of “what do I do […]
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Week 3 of the 11.133x MOOC – On fire
In comparison to last week, I ploughed through this weeks’ work. Probably because I have a separate education tech training event on this week – the ACODE Learning Technology Teaching Institute – and wanted to […]
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Week 2 of the 11.133x MOOC – getting things done. (Gradually)
The second week (well fortnight really) of the 11.133x MOOC moved us on to developing some resources that will help us to evaluate education technology and make a selection. Because I’m applying this to an actual […]
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Week 1 of the 11.133x MOOC – tick.
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
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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Does your new technology create innovation?
Great post on eschoolnews by Alan November about six questions that you should ask when implementing new technology in your education institution. It’s very easy to believe that you’re fostering innovation by having new toys but […]
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