Good practice in tech-enhanced learning
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Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) programme at Georgetown U in Washington DC ASEE2005_Paper_Wikis_and_Weblogs.pdf (applicati...
riee.stevens.edu/fileadmin/riee/pdf/ASEE2005_Paper... Weblogs and wikis - Stanford University, Designing the Human Experience
As part of a research project in 2004 students on this engineering design course were required to document their projects as they progressed, describing the design process, goals, methods, results and lessons learned in Ideas weblogs and course wiki pages. Students were encouraged to articulate the new knowledge they were acquiring and relate it to their evolving personal model of engineering design. These Ideas logs and wikis were then developed into learning portfolios, which at key times during the course are shared with instructors and fellow students, with feedback in the form of formal written comments (from teachers) and informal ones from peers. Reflective ‘moblogs’ - Oxford University, Learning Technologies Group
As part of the JISC-funded research project Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs in Learning Environments (RAMBLE), students on Chemistry and Medical Sciences courses were issued with PDAs linked to a weblog server which in turn was partially integrated with an existing course VLE. Students were asked to use these ‘moblogs’ either to give on- or off-campus feedback on their course, or to record and reflect on their learning experience - eg recording moments when they felt they were making progress or gaining in confidence. Students reacted positively to the convenience and informality of mobile ‘reflective blogging’. NKI Distance Education - a Norwegian programme which helps students to form co-operative 'learning partnerships' as part of formal courses mostly at secondary and undergraduate level, and using a specially-developed learning management system (LMS). NKI is an educational institution specialising in distance learning.
LearnLinc VLE - distance course in project management for Electronics masters' degree students at York University - includes virtual interactive lectures and tools to support 360-degree feedback, conferencing and chat, interactive and collaborative group work, and web resources.
The learner's perspective | Multimedia learning...
www.elearning.ac.uk/innoprac/learner/southampton.h... Multimedia learning with mobile phones - an ESOL and adult literacy/numeracy project at Southampton City College, in which camera phones are combined with the mediaBoard SMS-messageboard system to develop language skills and learn about the locality.
This is a JISC-sponsored project. Other JISC eLearning case studies can be found at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_innovation/eli_casestudies.aspx mediaBoard - a multipurpose, collaborative SMS/MMS message board developed by educational software specialists Cambridge Training and Development
Open Learn provides free online OU course content to self-presenting independent learners, together with a lab space where students can upload materials, and online communities where learners support each other Open Learn is grant aided by Hewlett Foundation, which supports several similar projects in the US, Europe and developing countries.
Elgg - a
free, open source social networking platform for educators, combining network, blog and portfolio functionality. There is also a subscription-based, fuller-featured Elgg Spaces application for institutions
Digital Teacher Network is a free online networking, project-development and showcasing platform for educationalists developed by Ultralab
Educators explore 'Second Life' online - CNN.com
www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/13/second.life.university... Second Life is a "metaverse" which users enter and explore via avatars. People do pretty much everything in SL that they do in real life - and this increasingly includes learning.
The SL education page at http://secondlife.com/education has a list of educational institutions who are active in the metaverse. This list includes the OU, tho I can find no reference to SL in the OU library. |