Collaboration online

Many online courses now require students to collaborate, but we know that just putting people together in the same space isn’t enough? What should a tutor do to prepare students for collaborative tasks?
Gilly Salmon’s 5-stage model provides very good guidelines on how to prepare for collaborative tasks online. These are usually designed into Stage 4 of [...]

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Using technology in teaching

How do you use technology in your teaching? Why do you use particular technologies? Which technologies do you dismiss? What are the drivers for using technology in your course design?
Thinking about these questions I am struck by the emphasis on technology and teaching as a starting point, whereas I have always thought that learning should [...]

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Grainne Conole’s questions

I have finally managed to listen to Grainne Conole and view the slide presentation (thanks Kristina) and was interested in her Slide 100 with three questions, which I have been thinking about.

1. How can we encourage a culture of sharing ideas and designs?

A lot will need to change in HE before a culture of sharing ideas and designs becomes [...]

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What connectivism is Not

Another series of posts to come back to.
The key point in it for me is: ‘..learners are expected to be able to manage complex and rapidly changing environments.’
This raises the question of whether this is a realistic expectation. What about all those people who simply will not be able to – who have learning disabilities [...]

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