Glossary: Team/s = Microsoft Teamsteam/s = curriculum area or group of staff In the session 21/22 the decision was taken to create a Microsoft Team for every taught course. An example would be DACC (HND Accounting). Although courses can have many cohorts (A, B groups etc.), it was felt that having a central point of contact for all students on a particular course would be useful. This is especially true early in the academic year when new students may need…
We use Raspberry Pi units all round the college to do digital signage. These are very useful because they are cheap to buy and can be left to run for months without nagging us about updates or new features. However, it is not always simple to get the Raspberry Pi HDMI output to fill the screen. Here is a quick fix to force your Pi to output a 1920×1080 (1080p) video signal which fills the screen in many of our…
Map your own PLN, in whatever format you find easiest to work with. For further guidance or to see some examples of other people’s PLNs, take a look at this ‘Mapping Your PLN’ guide. This is a small beginning mapping my PLN. I have entered work colleagues as well as a few external connections including the broader H880 Community and my tutor. I have included the SMUG group and CDN who influence my work. This could be developed to be…
Visit your study group and work together to create a master list of possible ways in which the listed data types could be useful for a tutor, module author or the OU as an institution. Working on this task in a small group will allow you to discuss your ideas and explore group members’ different perspectives before sharing your thoughts with the wider H880 community. Age – If students are particularly young, perhaps immediately post undergraduate study, they are less…
Compose a second email to the same teacher, which succinctly summarises an example of the use of an e-portfolio and draws attention to the implications of this example for her context. I don’t know about succinct but here is my follow up email Dear lecturer, This email provides further details about the use of eportfolios in assessment. You state that your students are required to work collaboratively but it is likely that they will be working on individual eportfolios. As…
In this weeks activities we have considered how the role of the mentor changes in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) when compared with roles we traditionally associate with teaching. In this unscientific juxtaposition I have summarised how I perceive the main differences. As you can see as the participant count increases the role of the educator changes. When courses become massive it is not possible to maintain some of the traditional tasks of educators such as marking or one to…
As part of my study of the OU Module H880: Technology Enhanced Learning, Foundations and Futures I have completed the FutureLearn MOOC ‘The Online Educator’. This course covered a range of important topics when considering online delivery. There were valuable lessons related to online identities and privacy, navigating hype in learning technologies, accessibility and inclusion, evaluating research and digital inclusion. I scored 72% in the final test.
When a student / member of staff logs into the present Moodle system they are presented with a ‘My Courses’ list. This list is not sourced from within the Moodle system at all. In fact we have, over the years, created a separate web service which collates this course list from a variety of sources. This list intercepts the internal course list in Moodle and replaces it with our own list. When Moodle upgrades are carried out this code has…
LearnNet WordPress Blogs PREVIOUS ePortfolio set up (20/21) The current ePortfolio system has been used since the days of the ISLE project (2007). A separate WordPress installation is created for each student by course group or individually. Tutors are then added to the sites as required. Currently students have administrative rights to their own blog sites where tutors have contribution rights. The rights will remain the same. Students who require an ePortfolio are provided with their own WordPress installation with…
Cohorts are collections of users in the Moodle system. The obvious cohorts are “all students”, “all staff”, “class reps” and perhaps other generic cohorts. This will allow enrolment of all students on global courses e.g. induction. For course enrolment the system we aim to use is much simpler than the current unit based enrolment method. The principal of the new structure is that if a student is enrolled on a course e.g. DACC, they will be added to the “All…