“Publish a blog post that describes your experience with open education. Is it just with the OU, or have you studied a MOOC” I have both used and created open educational resources. I created a short guide to the program eXeLearning (an eLearning designer based on Mozilla Firefox). This was in the form of a course created in eXeLearning and distributed as a SCORM and .elp which is the file format of eXe. This is hosted on the wiki educator…

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Think back to the learning theories you investigated in Week 3. To what extent are those theories relevant to the predictions made by Sharples et al.? Playful learning This goes beyond the nursery level ideas of play such as Circle Time, Free Play which are recognised guided learning activities for children. This section talks about play for adults, gamification, stating that play has no age limit. This seems to be compatible with behaviourism where actions lead to rewards and also…

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1)    Mixed / Augmented Reality   I feel Mixed/Augmented reality could be very useful for new students in our college. I am currently doing a lot of work in relation to the induction period (between enrolment and first ‘proper’ classes). There are many opportunities to make this time more informative and fulfilling. Although we do our best to cut down on jargon there are some difficulties. For example Student’s Association, Student Support and Admissions services mean something to us but…

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Having Read George Siemens (2005) paper on Collectivism I understand that this new theory was created to address the shortcomings in previously accepted learning theories. Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism were created in a time before huge, always on, information networks became available to everyone. The focus of these older theories is how learning occurs and describe learning as internal to the individual. If we are to contrast Connectivism with earlier learning theories it is clear why they are inadequate in…

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Hypothesis 1: eLearning is a means of implementing education that can be applied within varying education models (for example, face to face or distance education) and educational philosophies (for example behaviourism and constructivism). I agree with this hypothesis. For me, this hypothesis suggests that the elearning platform can be used in a variety of use cases.  Nichols (2003) notes that various learning theories can be expressed using elearning. Alternatively, it can be a simple tool to organise resources to support…

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I had not heard of ispotnature.org so I was interested to find out what the site was about. I have, in the past, attempted to identify bird species by referring to books, asking a knowledgable friend or by trying to use the RSPB (2019) ‘identify a bird’ site. iSpot is to my mind an innovative alternative which harnesses the knowledge of the site participants to help identify species as well as fulfilling a conservational role by allowing the recording of…

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I am certain my innovations are valued within my context. I have a long experience of providing appropriate systems based on consultation and user feedback. For example: our institution uses a custom Moodle module known as “Corepacks” This is our record of awarding body quality compliance within each taught unit.This was initially an exercise to move from paper based files stored on a shelf to online files. However, this system has grown into a complete process which is tied in…

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As a long time Second Life user (until 2018) I have chosen to Investigate the Terra Incognito project of the University of Southern Queensland (Australia). I found researching the Terra Incognito project to be quite challenging as there as so many references returned by general internet searches. I tried to structure my research in such a way that I would informally find out as much as possible about the life of the project before filtering out unreliable or out of…

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