Geetha Narayanan’s presentation to ChangeMooc this week has coincided with an evening out with a friend who has recently qualified as a primary school teacher and it has been very interesting to think further about Geetha’s approach to teaching and learning, and how newly qualified teachers are expected to teach in the UK. I mentioned [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Passionate teaching – a la Geetha Narayanan
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, Geetha Narayanan, learning, teacher trainees, teaching on February 25, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Dangerous ideas for the future of teaching and learning
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, education, Geetha Narayanan, India, innovative curriculum, learning, rabindranath tagore, slow learning, teaching on February 22, 2012 | 10 Comments »
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge, but merely repeats his lesson to his students can [...]
Another Networked Learning Hotseat is just starting
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged hot seat, hot seats, judi marshall, networked learning, sustainability, tara fenwick on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s Networked Learning Conference Hot Seat with Tara Fenwick and Judi Marshall has just opened with these discussion topics: Working on and learning for sustainability through networked learning Working with a Sociomaterial Approach to consider sustainability and networked learning Working with an action research and systemic thinking approach to considering sustainability and networked learning You [...]
What is Academic Rigour?
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, Research, tagged #change11, academic, changemooc11, design-based research, Reeves, Research, rigour, theory on February 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
This is a question that was raised near the end of Tom Reeves very interesting presentation to ChangeMooc this week. Recording for this session The focus of Tom’s presentation was educational research and the lack of impact of educational technology research on educational policy and practice. To address this problem he has worked with colleagues [...]
First Steps to Planning a MOOC
Posted in EdDevMOOC, tagged #change11, #fslt12, academy, development, education, educational developers, further, hea, higher, learning, MOOC, OER, open, oxfordbrookes, pcthe, pgcert, phd students, resources, teaching on February 17, 2012 | 19 Comments »
We started planning for this MOOC last week – I blogged about it here – http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/a-new-mooc-for-mayjune-first-steps-into-teaching-in-fehe/ There has already been a lot written about planning and running a MOOC. Stephen Downes has written a lot of blog posts about this and done many presentations. (See for example, http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/02/access2oer-cck08-solution.html ; http://change.mooc.ca/how.htm and http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/how-to-organize-a-mooc ) There is [...]
A New MOOC for May/June – First Steps into Teaching in FE/HE
Posted in EdDevMOOC, tagged #change11, #fslt12, changemooc11, EdDevMOOC, education, MOOC on February 11, 2012 | 30 Comments »
I have been invited to work with the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development to develop a short MOOC (4-6 weeks) for Educational Developers and all those interested in teaching and learning in Further and Higher Education. I will be working with Marion Waite and George Roberts, who has already started blogging about it [...]
Creative Conversation
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, #IEML, changemooc11, cognition, creative conversation, Levy on February 8, 2012 | 11 Comments »
This is the subject of Chapter 4 of Prof Pierre Lévy’s book: THE SEMANTIC SPHERE COMPUTATION, COGNITION AND THE INFORMATION ECONOMY Volume 1, which he has shared with ChangeMooc this week This is a fascinating chapter on many counts and I found it easier to read and relate to that Chapter 1. Prof Lévy discusses [...]
Prof Pierre Levy: The IEML Philosophy
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, #IEML, changemooc11, cognition, Levy on February 6, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Prof Pierre Lévy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence University of Ottawa, is the speaker this week in Change Mooc. This is part of his introduction: The human species can be defined by its special ability to manipulate symbols. Each great augmentation in this ability [...]
IRRODL – A new edition has been published
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, Research, tagged #change11, changemooc11, Connectivism, IRRODL, MOOC, Research on February 1, 2012 | 21 Comments »
The first edition of IRRODL for 2012 is now out, and one of the 15 articles is the one I spent a lot of last year working on with Carmen Tschofen Tschofen, C. & Mackness, J. (2011) Connectivism and Dimensions of Individual Experience. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl Having both [...]
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