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A new home for Art of E-learning
This blog (artofelearning.com) has been relocated to http://www.artofelearning.org. All previous content has been copied over there. You can still see the previous posts on this site if you have the old URLs, but all new content will posted at the … Continue reading
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Process notes for an evaluation study
As I mentioned yesterday, I have just begun a study to find out how refugees can best learn from MOOCs and other online resources, with the very kind support of the Kiron Higher Education Organisation‘s staff, volunteers and learners, who … Continue reading
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What helps refugees succeed in learning from MOOCs?
The title of this blog post is a question I would like to find an answer to through my PhD studies. As a first step towards this goal, I was privileged to be able to join a group of 14 … Continue reading
German universities prepare for recognition of MOOC-based learning
Continuing with the German theme from my last post… Last week I was honoured to be invited to speak at a workshop in Berlin held by Kiron Open Higher Education for staff from their German partner universities, on the topic of … Continue reading
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Reflecting on #UKOER at #OER17
Last week I attended #OER17 in London, and am still basking in the warm glow of the shared sense of purpose to open up education for equity and social inclusion. My presentation, which I was privileged to do collaboratively with … Continue reading
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The secret life of face-to-face learning in MOOCs (Part 2)
Many thanks to the folks who commented on Part 1 of this blog series, and to those people who contacted me privately to tell me about cases where face-to-face learning is playing a significant role for MOOC learners. In this post I will share what … Continue reading
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The secret life of face-to-face learning in MOOCs (Part 1)
Massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) are generally designed with the intention that learners will learn online. Indeed, the name implies this. And one of the key advantages of MOOCs, from a learning design point of view, is supposed to be … Continue reading
Three degrees of innovation in designing a new distance programme
The FUTURA report that I co-wrote with Brenda Padilla, Lourdes Guàrdia and Cris Girona was recently published by the Open University of Catalonia’s eLearn Center. It documents current and emerging practices in online teaching in higher education. We analysed over 100 initiatives … Continue reading
Lecture capture: what can we learn from the research?
This week I presented at the Chartered Association of Business Schools Learning, Teaching and Student Experience 2016 conference in Birmingham. My talk was on the literature review I had done with Carol Robinson at Loughborough University to find out more about … Continue reading
Validation of Non-formal MOOC-based Learning
The report I co-authored for the EU, “Validation of Non-formal MOOC-based Learning: an Analysis of Assessment and Recognition Practices in Open Education” has at last been published. The study, referred to as OpenCred, began in May 2014, and originally aimed to find examples of … Continue reading
