Today I came across two very interesting pieces which provide options for assessment when requiring students to participate using blogs and wikis. Assessment when using some of these technologies in education seems to be a continuing bugbear. The first is a very interesting slidecast by Konrad Glogowski from the University of Toronto. Konrad explains one [...]
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The Microblog Backchannel
Posted in education, tools, tagged backchannel, backchanneling, backchannelling, collaboration, feedback, immediacy, lecture, lectures, mark morley, markuos, realtime on April 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Is it possible to recreate the immediacy and interaction of a small seminar group within a large lecture theatre setting? Well there are tools that can provide a lecturer with feedback during a lecture, the student response system being one example. However, that has to be pre-planned prior to the lecture to be used effectively, [...]
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- New blogpost: 'Open Policy' for Openness in Education course #ioe12 bit.ly/zwCjJB #change11 2 months ago
- Diigo hosted group for #ioe12 Openness in Education course for community to share relevant bookmarks/annotations bit.ly/yJXkKY 2 months ago
- @Andy_Tattersall Things seem to be much better at the moment thanks - fingers crossed this has got rid of the infection 2 months ago
- @KathleenAStone I'm finding your #ioe12 blog posts very interesting. 2 months ago
- JISC Webinar - An introduction to free and open source software - 14 March 1:30pm GMT - bit.ly/yUMsF8 #ioe12 2 months ago
Squire Morley (wp) blog- Open Policy #ioe12At the heart of the movement to open educational resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general, and the World Wide Web in particular provide an opportunity for … Continue reading →
- Open Business Models #ioe12The question that seems to arise from throughout the course topics is one of sustainability and the open business models topic considers this area in more detail. When looking at particularly the concept of OpenCourseWare (OCW) there is the concern … Continue reading →
- Open Teaching #ioe12In some ways I’ve perhaps found this topic to be the lightest on content with regard to the topic ‘readings’, perhaps because I’ve encountered both videos previously, not least from participating in the other MOOCs. However, I also found the … Continue reading →
- Open Data #ioe12Tim Berners-Lee talks on his TEDtalk about how he originated the World Wide Web. The memo he wrote about it was read by his boss (who after his boss’s death was found to have the words “Vague but exciting” written … Continue reading →
- Open Science #ioe12Michael Nielson in his TEDtalk begins by talking about Tim Gowers1, a renowned (famous) mathematician, and Cambridge (UK) professor, who asked on his blog in 2009 whether science could be done collectively out in the open. There was a mathematical … Continue reading →
- Open Access ioe12From the course readings for this topic, Peter Suber’s initial article begins by drawing on a number of sources for a definition of Open Access. These include: The Budapest Open Access Initiative There are many degrees and kinds of wider … Continue reading →
- Open Assessment ioe12The area of assessment, recognition and reward for skills development and learning beyond formal education has been a difficult one. However, the Digital Learning and Media Competition 4, sponsored by the MacAuthur Foundation (Press Release) in association with HASTAC and … Continue reading →
- OpenCourseWare ioe12OpenCourseWare (OCW) is the provision of course materials provided openly on the Web and pioneered by MIT. I recall the time of the MIT announcement as I worked in a Computing Services department of a UK university the Deputy Director … Continue reading →
- Open Content ioe12
- Openness in Education ioe12 Sharing Community BadgePart of the criteria for the OpenEd Assessment Designer Apprentice Level Badge is to design a badge and for other participants of the course to work towards that badge. I felt that the earlier in the course that I created … Continue reading →
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